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Today we were digging a trench for the fence we're putting in for the Kingdom Hall. We worked from 9am-2pm. It was hot, the ground was incredibly hard, and we had faulty tools that kept breaking. We loved it.
First we put down a string and broke through with the tools, then we moved the string and did the same on the otherside. After that, we started removing the grass from on top. After the grass was off, we softened the soil by digging into it and breaking up the clumps. The dirt was mixed with clay and rocks, so a few of the tools broke and bent. It was actually extremely hard work in the incredibly hot sun. Good news, the clouds rolled in after we were all done. Figures. :]
Guillermo, our guide dug cassava from a field while Ron and John looked on. The host cleaned it, cut it in thin pieces then fried them. With a little salt, they tasted something like potato chips.
... through the archives ...
I was looking through my older digital photographs and found this one. I was planning on adding it to one of those discussion threads where you have to reference something in the previous picture. However, I was a little slow and thread went on without it. But it's still one of my favorite.
They are digging up few houses that have been covered with ashes from the eruption since ´73 and are making a kind of museum.
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Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out
of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
~ Robert Creeley
Today we were digging a trench for the fence we're putting in for the Kingdom Hall. We worked from 9am-2pm. It was hot, the ground was incredibly hard, and we had faulty tools that kept breaking. We loved it.
First we put down a string and broke through with the tools, then we moved the string and did the same on the otherside. After that, we started removing the grass from on top. After the grass was off, we softened the soil by digging into it and breaking up the clumps. The dirt was mixed with clay and rocks, so a few of the tools broke and bent. It was actually extremely hard work in the incredibly hot sun. Good news, the clouds rolled in after we were all done. Figures. :]
Here's Trista digging out the cucumbers from her Cucumber roll. She wanted a cucumber roll (which she always gets when we go for sushi), but didn't want to eat any of the cucumber! Funny, huh!
Today we were digging a trench for the fence we're putting in for the Kingdom Hall. We worked from 9am-2pm. It was hot, the ground was incredibly hard, and we had faulty tools that kept breaking. We loved it.
First we put down a string and broke through with the tools, then we moved the string and did the same on the otherside. After that, we started removing the grass from on top. After the grass was off, we softened the soil by digging into it and breaking up the clumps. The dirt was mixed with clay and rocks, so a few of the tools broke and bent. It was actually extremely hard work in the incredibly hot sun. Good news, the clouds rolled in after we were all done. Figures. :]
Our property back in North Carolina USA was sharing the well with the neighbours but after they sold their place the new owners decided they didn't want to share (bastards!) so we had to organise a well on our property. Billy's folks did all the running around and organised it all for us, bless them.
Billy's dad took a bunch of photos for us to see how it all went. The first attempt failed after the well collapsed at 450 feet. Then the second attempt saw them drill through 350 feet of granite!!
It turned into a very expensive exercise but at least now we have our own water supply!