Monday- First Construction Day.

Today was .......tough.

The first year was a fairly easy once we got to the place we were building. It was in a paved village and we parked outside of our work sites.

Last year we had to get out and carry our tools but it wasn't that bad.

Today we drove an hour and 20 minutes to get to the site. Then we had to get out and carry everything up Mt. Dadgum Everest.
Not really, but we did climb a very steep and long hill, steep and long being the key words. Everybody was huffing and puffing at the end. We probably went up 150 ft. in elevation, steeply.
We built our first house there as one big group, so everyone could see it start to finish. After we built that, we split into two groups and one group climbed up and the other group went down some and then back up higher to build at different sites. That way we met our goal of three houses today.

Have I mentioned it's the rainy season?
Yeah...........

As we were finishing and getting ready to load up and carry everything down the long, steep and up to this point, dusty hill, it started to rain. Big honkin', cold rain.
Getting down the hill was very tough. Wes Davis would still be up there.(Daily Wes Davis HammerTime #2) Basically it was just one long slide down. There were 2 sketchy bridges we had to cross, too.
There was a kinda fun element to it, but at the end, it was just.."Finally!"

But God is Good. We did it with His strength and for His glory. 3 families got houses today. We managed to play with a slew of kids at each spot. Nobody got hurt.

Twig had Baked Spaghetti and a Salad Bar for us at Supper tonight. Everybody is whipped, but it's that good type of whipped.

After worship, some went to bed and some stayed up and played 3 THINGS IN A HAT. After that everybody pretty much turned in.

Hope everything's good back home with y'all.

See ya tomorrow.