Showing posts with label house build. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house build. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2018

Cory's Haiti Trip..Part 2


Monday I headed back to Delice / Blessing after getting some pvc pipe and supplies in Port au Prince.

Hard cement layer over soft, rough cement floor
Resurfacing the floor is about half done, will take a few more days this fall to finish.

 Plumbing is mostly done and now a toilet works.

Planting macadamia trees
A few fruit trees, macadamias, potatoes, yacon and ornamentals are planted.

Pepino dulce/sweet cucumber has produced well the past year, along with some tomatoes that sprouted in the neighbor's yard and produced well on their own.




Plumbing challenge

Pepino dulce or "sweet cucumber"
Macadamia trees
Jackfruit at Fauche
The next Monday I returned to Fauche.
Peach palms from Costa Rica 3 years after planting & good grazing
We checked out all the gardens and most are growing well.

We spent part of two mornings weeding and trimming the tree nursery. 


Malay apple tree
On the way to the airport Friday, we stopped at Deep River Mission to deliver a few fruit trees, coconuts and see how the trees we provided a year or two ago are growing.
Many have grown fast and should start fruiting soon. 

Starfruit is already producing and had good flavor.








Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Mid-week..

Lots to do before we travel next week...lots getting done.

Scheduling summer events and travel.
School, grades...
Packing, loading, short drive, unload..repeat the next day.
Work on house: door hanging & hardware, caulk, rat/rain proofing under doors and roof, plumbing....
Cleaning







Septic tank



Sunday, April 15, 2018

Work on Blessing..the house


 In addition to school, office work, lots of e-mails....
More protective layers on wood work. 
Rains have started. 

Working on the storage room wall.







Electrical (not as crooked as it looks)

More painting for the next wall.

Rains show where the roof leaks...time to try to fix it. 



Thursday, March 29, 2018

Happy Easter & Great news...

Friday the Agape kids visited the house..looked at a different view. 
What a few days.....

Saturday we planned to work at the house but a heavy fog all day with some sprinkles kept us inside....time for school work, office work, reading, watching videos. Overall a good day.

Palm Sunday we rested, read, and shared worship time with the Agape house children.

Monday through Wednesday we basically did the same thing daily.

Listening to school work, The Grapes of Wrath, while painting
Headed to the house early...painted the interior walls [Kris and Anna] or worked on putting a thin layer of cement over the rough, bumpy, and dust producing floor.

Anna continues to work hard on finishing her senior year well. Her goal is be be finished before area retreat in early May.

On Wednesday morning we woke up to discover that somehow the internet bandwidth had been used up overnight.

Tongue and groove for a storage room.
This means that for 24 hours the internet will slow to almost nothing.

During our lunch break I was able to get a few emails in and to our great delight one informed us that Fritzlin's I600 visa application had been approved.

And thankfully by the afternoon the internet was back.

A second email included the next steps...how to fill out needed forms; set up the medical appointment; and what is needed for the Embassy interview.
Grey blue for 2 bedrooms, living room and kitchen. 

With great rejoicing we returned to finish painting the house walls.

So next week staff members, Fritzlin and we will travel early Monday for the medical appointment in Port-au-Prince; go to the Embassy for the final interview on Tuesday morning; and Wed. will return to the medical clinic to have his TB skin test read.

Someday a rock wall and mantel will be here. 
After the interview...there may be additional information needed to be researched or resolved before the visa can be issued or they may only need the final medical report.

Once all information is in place there will be a short 2-5 business day wait while the final paperwork is prepared.

'Pumpkin seed' color for Anna's room, hall, and small bathroom
Then Fritzlin would be able to travel with our family to the USA and he will become an American citizen when he enters the USA.

We plan to travel in early May to join other Global Partner missionaries in Florida for our area retreat.

This morning we awoke to no internet.

During the night a horse must of hit or rubbed agaist the sattelite dish, knocking the receiver down.

So Cory and I spent a couple of hours getting it back aligned.

Very thankful that we were able to get it working again so that we could work on the needed forms and paperwork for Fritz's visa.

Thank you for the prayers.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Photo's from biology lab and house...

Flat Stacy visit

Plastering of walls



The pig.. for Anna's advanced biology dissection




Cory's yacon...a path was made over it but it survived. Now rescued.

Clean up started.



Crew leaving after we prayed with them.