House Update

We recently borrowed some scaffolding form some people from Church. We can now put up tar paper and metal lathe with much more ease than when we did it solely by ladder. Still kinda scary, but better; higher. The West side is all done when it comes to tar paper and lathe, still needs a few bales and bamboo. Today Sarah and I started working on the south side, it is slow going, but what isn't with this house? The south side is a literal mud pit and so it is hard to work on the ground level, but fine up on the scaffolding. (Buster often joins us up on the scaffolding.)

Last week there was a lot of flooding and the field east of us (between us and the East fork of the Grand River) was covered in water, I missed it due to my cold, but Sarah took lots of pictures.

Except for the little bit of pond in this first picture, all the water you see is not supposed to be there, it is an alfalfa field. And those are our hay bales! Aren't they pretty!

The tomato worms came back, and this time they are HUGE! Yuck!

Buster jumped into the pond today while Sarah and I were swimming. It was amazing. He leaped off a cement block and went completely under. His little popped up a second later and he looked at us for a second and did a little paddling, then he got out of the pond as fast as he got in. He then cleaned himself until we got out. He is so amazing. Such a little adventurer. Hektor won't come in past his belly, but one day Sarah saw Lucy all the way in and doing a little dog paddling. She is so CUTE. Khova just tries to stay out of the dogs mouths. Poor little thing. He is supper stressed and starting to loose a little bit of his neck hair. But today when we got to the house he looked much better, like he finally took a bath.

When I got out of the car today to open the gate when we first got to the homestead there was a second new lock on our chain that we didn't put there. We think it must be from the guys who mowed our field, probably some miscommunication between the father and son who do it. So Sarah and I had to climb over the gate and walk all the way up there and back. It wasn't too bad. Just a little annoying.