Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

Sorry, I forgot to take many pictures today. I hauled all of our personal stuff out of the Lockwoods’ house and filled up the girls’ bedroom with it. Mike put the finishing touches on all our cabinets and then he built our kitchen table (picture tomorrow, maybe). Bill and Josh tested our water system, fixed […]

Let it rain, let it rain! We had a good rain shower today and now there’s maybe 8 inches of water sitting in our tank. We have another day before we’ll start using that water and another good rain shower tomorrow should put us in pretty good shape. This time of year it rains quite […]

I’m tired, but the end is near. The next three days will be quite busy but then I hope to have a couple days to relax with the family after that. The gutters are all up, and we collected a little bit of rain in the tank today. The small bathroom (pictured) is pretty much […]

The end is in sight! There’s a lot of little things to get done but most of the big projects are complete and it looks like we’ll be in pretty good shape when this second team heads home on Monday. We’ve had rain and the house has stayed dry. We’ve had an earthquake and the […]

I don’t know what to say today. We’re moving along. Things are progressing. I watched a praying mantis eat another bug today. The electrical work is just about all done. We turned the first light on in our house this evening. Bill, Josh, and Willard, the guys working on everything electrical, should finish up tomorrow […]

Now we’re rolling again. We awoke to the sun shining (thanks for praying) and we went right up on the roof and finished it off. Shortly thereafter the helicopter showed up with reinforcements and (from left to right) Bill, Bryan, Travis, and Brian got to return home to their families. Solar panels went up on […]

Well, the weather is still not cooperating. We would really appreciate your prayers for some sunshine tomorrow. The roof is all covered except the roof cap and one edge. We can’t get up there and finish it off until the tin is dry enough to walk on. The inside of our house has been wet […]

Week one is done. We’re all alive and well and other than some minor cuts, sore muscles, and one nasty centipede bite, we’ve had a good week. The weather was not very cooperative today but we accomplished a good bit more. The tin roofing is 3/4 done and these four guys are thinking of getting […]

Today was that day – the day everything doesn’t go smooth. The day things go wrong. 7:30 this morning Travis reached into his bag to pull out his tool. As his hand went into the bag he felt something latch on and instinctively he shook his hand to get it off. A centipede was on […]

Another day, and it was another good one. No falls, no injuries, no deaths – only me making myself bleed twice and Travis making me bleed once. Once again we had pretty much perfect weather. The clouds kept the sun off us and we almost made it the whole day without rain. A brief shower […]