25Nov11
I’m exhausted right now. Been an
interesting day though.
As many of you have seen on
Facebook, I had a pretty sweet
thanksgiving. A fellow
missionary and I were given a
turkey and all the fixins from
some friends who had gone
stateside recently. Nick and I
managed to cook it all up and
have a wonderful thanksgiving
dinner with his kids at the
orphanage for Joy in Hope.
It really was a great day.
Then, today, I went down to
visit Sarah, Amanda, Patrick,
and Gayly from Olive Tree
Projects to investigate their
security and make
recommendations. As it turns
out, they seem to be doing
fairly well. My basis of
judgement is always how
difficult I think it would be
for me to break it, and I think
that place would be hard,
especially with their armed
guard around.
It was also sweet though, that
Gayly wants to work with me down
here. He wants to learn a bit
with what I’m doing, so I’m
pretty excited to have a haitian
working with me who is also a
good translator.
We went up to Dr. Ken’s place
and measured out the windows to
make bars to put over them.
Then, it started raining. So, we
went back to HAF to continue our
work under a tin roof. So far,
they’re coming together well.
Before lunch tomorrow, we should
have the outer frames of these
things finished, so I can
evaluate them in place and make
sure we haven’t screwed any up
too badly. 🙂
The hard part will be attaching
them to the existing concrete
wall. Window bars are much
easier to install on new
contruction. However, I have
talked it over with Boss Otis
from Hands and Feet and an
confident we can do it easily
enough. Though I may have to
learn how to patch concrete in
the process.
In other news, I have a decision
to make tonight.
I could potentially pick up the
two rottweiler puppies tomorrow
in PAP, but I will have to delay
putting the bars on the windows.
I’m working on the idea right
now, trying to decide what to
do.
Anyhow, that’s about it for
tonight. I’m probably going to
go crash soon unless I get ahold
of Dr. Clayton.
I have some Artemesia to give
him from our agriculture
projects in Les Cayes. He would
then be our first clinic in
Haiti to actually test it for
us, though we’re pretty
confident since there has been a
lot of research on it already.
And, Dr. Ken says that many
countries already use it a lot,
but the U.S. FDA has not
approved it, so that is why it
is not available to us.
God Bless.
