New tires

This may not be as exciting to you as it is to me, but for those of us that travel up and down the hour and forty-five minute long trail in all weather conditions, this is exciting. It is a little depressing to load up a lady in labor or some other malady into the land cruiser and not even be sure if we can make it the whole way out on the slippery trail because of an overnight rain. But with new treads like these I think I could make it out almost any time we need to. I will say though that I think I spent more time in prayer while driving the trail with the old tires. :) 

David is working on taking the tire off the rim and I (Julian) am washing the mud off before we start. 

One step closer to hittin' the trail. You feel that excitement comin' on?

Finished! Let's go!

A Quiet Saturday....

......what a concept!  No knocks on the gate, no births or trips out to town or lacerations of any degree!  Unbelievable.  So, we decided to tackle a few of those "been wanting to get that done" kind of projects.

Mali and Kin took on the flowerbeds behind the house.  Looking good!

Some of the rest of us headed up to Elise's house to fix a bit of a problem with  her roof....seems the termites had done a number on one of the purlins and now the edge of the tin tended to flap in the breeze.

Gotta get it just the right length....

(And yes, it's exactly what it looks like...we talked Hans into the project, then hung out with the kids and watched him do the actual work. =)

I tried to figure out how to do Mika's hair...harder than it looks! :)

While Whit hung out with this cutie, who didn't love the camera.

Elise came out to check the final product, and was all smiles.  (That's her, in the red, ignoring me as I photo shoot her house. :)

Think it'll hold, Whit??

Meanwhile, back at HQ, some others had taken it upon themselves to work on the gazebo, a lengthy "short term" project we've been trying to finish.

Ellamae and Eugene helped mix...

....and Julian poured.  

Then we all wrapped up the day in our very favorite-est way....Happy Birthday, Kin!!!

Church benches

Thanks to the team from PA. we now have new church benches. They started with angle iron and planks and made some rather comfortable sitting devices capable of holding up to 12 people. Well this is Haiti you know. :)

Painting the boards 

Painting the frames

The finished product 

Lord bless you all. 

Roof is on!

After a couple set backs and rocks in the road, the roof is finally on the church!

First problem was my Haitian bosses made the church about 1.5' to wide. So we made a run to town for the steel to extend the trusses. Thankfully the trusses are steel, so they are pretty easy to repair. 

Now as of yesterday, thanks to a great group of guys we have here, the trusses are all up and the tin is on!

Now the next step is pouring the floor. So hopefully that can be done without to many glitches!

Donny

Church project

Since we are so terrible at keeping this blog up. I thought you all would enjoy a few pictures of how the church project is coming.  

The walls are just about finished and the roof will be going up shortly!

Lord bless you all in the coming year!

Donavon