Date: Wednesday 2 March 2005
Life is staying pretty busy with us lately, my daily
grind is to get up and leave at 7am, go to Jimbolia come back at 6-7pm
and then do the team stuff, meet with the architects, engineers, clean
house etc. It seems that I am finding it hard to sit down and catch
up on my emails and updates!
The boys home is coming along quite quickly, we have
the two guest rooms about finished and have built and sheet rocked the
4 upstairs bedrooms and the bath. If the money holds out we should be
finished with the inside by this summer.
I don't know if you have heard or not but the Pumpkin
has died! A combination of a broken water hose and a faulty temp
gauge fried the motor beyond repair. We are looking for a replacement
motor now and hope to have it back and running soon. It had about 420,000
km on it when the hose broke.
Other than that Milo [the dog] got hit by a car and
just got back out of surgery, he must be feeling better now, he is back
jumping up onto the furniture!
Date: Friday 4 March 2005
I was going to send you a separate note about Jake and
Jacob, a tale of two Jakes... they were two boys who came from our church
in San Antonio to work on the home for two weeks.
They both had loads of construction experience and worked
pretty much 6 days a week in near freezing conditions (inside we could
warm it up to about 10°C but most of the time it was around 5°C)
and got the second floor plastic wrapped, insulated, and the four bed
rooms and the upstairs bath built along with getting most of the down
stairs "apartment" finished. At night they brought movies
and had movie nights with the boys that are working there.
