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The bamboo siding was finished on our house Tuesday of this week and so Friday was marked for our big house opening party. The Pal people’s custom is to have a house opening party for every new house before the owner of the house sleeps in his house or cooks in his house. We’ve been […]

It’s been a rather busy week but with good reason. Some of the people have finished planting their yams in their gardens and so they started working on the outside walls for our house this week. Monday morning we went up the nearby mountain to a patch of bamboo and cut a couple hundred down. […]

Before I share about my day, the pictures are of the living room, kitchen, loft and girls’ room. There’s still a good deal of things that need to get done but you wouldn’t really know it looking at our house now. Anyways, Monday November 12, the day I was hoping to dive back in to […]

At 6:45 am the kids and I (Maggie) were driving to the airport to come to our new home! We boarded a plane and flew to an air-strip in a language group close to Pal to meet the helicopter. The helicopter flew us the rest of the way over the mountains and back home. Tons […]

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 […]