Thursday afternoon
Things have been very busy here as usual. Sammy has been keeping us on our toes day & night. We have been weighing him every Tuesday and can’t say that it has always been very accurate with a digital luggage scale and his car seat but after 4 weeks he has gained 2.33 lbs. His ribs are no longer visible, his dimples in his cheeks and wrinkles in his legs are gone. He likes to sit up with a little help and continues to jabber, not sure if it is English or Creole but he does like to say Da-Da a lot. Jane will be happier when he can get his lips together to say Ma-Ma.
We have been blessed over this past week with enough EDH (electric utility) that we have not run our little Honda generator for more than a week now. Each day the power has been on from midnight until sometimes as late as 3:30PM, it’s enough to keep our batteries and inverter going continually.
We have been going over check lists and making arrangements, preparing for our time away. It’s hard to get my head around that it is almost Christmas, the weather has been in the 80’s. I hear Christmas music on Christian radio but due to the poverty here, decorations & gifts are something that is gone without. I tell many back home that Christmas here is much like Easter in North America, a church service and a nice Sunday meal.
Missionary Flights Int. has been very busy transporting teams and Christmas freight both for missionaries and Christmas bags/boxes to be distributed. Recently we have been getting two planes each Tuesday & Thursday. Just like the delivery people back home, all involved have been putting in long and tiring days making it all happen. I am so blessed to be part of their team.
Jane has supper planned for Stewart Dawson tonight, he is a close friend and has been working full time to help raise funding for the radio station since first coming in after the earth quake in 2010. He plans to fly back to Kentucky tomorrow.
A week ago it was the Jim Pancratz team (Back home) including Neil Tomkins from Nebraska along with many friends from both states that we have known for years but didn’t know each other. They had come to do solar projects and distribute eye glasses.
I’ve been busy the other three days a week working on generators, trucks & drilling equipment for Life Water. Each day the Haitian crews continue to repair pumps and drill new wells to keep Haiti in safe drinking water.
Some of the things that I am looking forward to this time home: family & friends, hot showers, full nights of sleep, ice cream, fast food, bagels, donuts, no mosquitoes or gnats.
Some things that I am not looking forward to: cold weather, burning more than 5 gallons of gasoline in the car each week, needing blankets and window glass.
Bud
1 comment:
Merry Christmas Bud and Jane. I thought it was very unusual not to have glass in the windows. But if it never gets cold, that's what is hard to believe.
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