In the Meantime…

Between trips into the village or while the guys are out on a trip, we are busy back home getting ready for the next trip.

I am learning how to drive a standard vehicle.  Our mountain vehicles are standard, and it’s a skill that I’m sure will come in handy in the future.

We zip around town, order materials, go pick them up on the day they are promised only to find out our materials didn’t come in.  So, we go back the following week to pick them up “for sure” only to find out they didn’t come in again.  It’s a good thing we’re starting on our materials early!  So, it means we’re running around a lot.

And, we buy food for the work team trips.  We cook some of it up and freeze it so the guys just have to warm it up.  The rest we package up according to meals and write instructions on them so it’s really easy for the guys to fix.

Yesterday and today we are canning again – beef, hamburger, and chicken!

That way, we can have meat out there even after the ice melts in our cooler!  Meat tastes so good after a long day of work!

And, I’ve got to keep figuring out what we’ll need next for our house material wise.  Then, I have to order it or arrange for it to be delivered to our village!  Lots of work and phone calls.  Right now, I’m figuring out how much lumber of each size that we need.  The guys will put in the order at a lumber-mill in the mountains a few hours away from our village.

We keep very busy!