We have been busy with school. Our next set of books have arrived in Florida and should be on Thursday's MFI flight along with a second batch of banana pups.
Here you see the kids doing school with Flat Stanley and Flat Patty. I'm assembled to admit that they arrived for a 'one month visit' late last year but were miss placed in a pile of mail and paperwork. We took some photos this week and wrote up letter about their visit. They're scheduled to be mailed back to the USA with their letter this week.
Last year when they cut down the trees for lumber on the compound we rescued some orchid plants and put them on our lime tree by Cory's shed. This week he brought this one into the house for us to enjoy. Cory thinks it is dry enough today to have 4-5 guys help him improve the drainage of the compound by digging ditches.
Gener's job this week was to work on the front room of the House of Hope. This room had been newly plastered when the November team arrived. So having people to paint-it was painted. But the paint leaked oil and remained sticky. It is being scrapped and then the walls washed down. Once we are sure that the walls remain dry will try again. 
See the oil drips in the close up?
1 comment:
Hi!
Just checking out the blog for the first time and I saw the paint problem you guys had. We had the same problem with the floors in our rebuilt dorm. We had only broken up part of the floor from the old building to put in new foundation, then filled in the floor to join the old with the new. The oil paint we used stuck to the old part of the floor, but not the new. We had the same sticky, non-drying problem and had to scrape it up where it wouldn't stick. I did some research and found out that the old cement was taking the paint because of the years of walking on it etc, but the new cement would need to be treated if we wanted the paint to stick. It was a mess.
If you've been able to scrape most of the paint off it might be worth it to use something non-oil based. There's a paint we can get down here called VLOU - made in Haiti- and it's acrylic, so it's washable unlike the tropitex, but not as messy. Not sure if you can find it up there? I would just hate to see you have the same problem the second time around.
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