Saturday 2-23-13

A busy work day around the camp has brought brighter rooms and more open view of the sky! As the morning started the team fanned out to start on some new areas of the camp, continue some larger projects and wrap up a few others begun this week. Myself along with several of the electricians spent most of the day in attics, tracing circuits and disconnecting and removing the low voltage circuits that are no longer needed. The ladies continued the painting in the boys dorm, finishing most of the rooms, leaving only a few finishing touches to be done next week.   The crew from Steppin Out Missions is keeping pace in the kitchen. The new service panel is now hot and the lighting in the prep area as well as the laundry room is now shining bright. Our linemen spent the day working with the local Bolivian crew, pulling down transformers and removing poles. One pole in particular was rather rotten and the process to strip and remove it included linemen, electricians, locals, a crane and a Toyota Hilux pick up truck. It was quite a process, with men yelling back and forth in English and Spanish, but in the end it was a success. An old eye sore gone and new section of open sky. Over in the central court yard, our team gardener Wayne, was busy making bamboo arch ways over the sidewalks and attaching the shrubs to create even more inviting walk ways in this beautiful garden space.

Morning Sun through the yucca

The precarious pole

Electricians devise a strategy

Mid-morning break  :)

 

The dark section  of this pole is all rotten!

Bolivian ladder

Steppin Out, In the kitchen

Linda mixing "butter scotch"?

Wayne prunes a new arch

Today we Thank God for the safety he has granted our team. We have been working here for week in a higher altitude than most of us are accustomed to, in warmer weather than our bodies are conditioned for, with far less safety equipment and modern construction tools than we normally use. Yet, we have had great successes in our daily work and aside from minor cuts and scrapes we have been free of injury. We also know you have had something to do with that! We know you are thinking about and praying for us and we are grateful to have you along on the journey!