Busy

The past couple of weeks have been on the hectic side, last week more for Bev and this week for me. Last week it was fairly quite for me, it was Genocide Remembrance week and we had 3 Holidays during that time so many of our workers were not here. But for Bev it was rough as she had one cook out for a weeks vacation, another one needed much time off as she has a very sick young baby, another one was out a couple days with malaria. That makes it very difficult with 3 of your four cooks not working and trying to run a kitchen and laundry from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm. Thank the Lord for our house keeper, Lillian. She worked in the kitchen for about 9 straight days and a couple of those were very long days. Not sure what Bev would have done if it were not for Lillian.

This week is about back to normal in the kitchen which is very good, but week has been very busy. All our workers and contractors are back at work and they all did to have materials ordered right now. I am dealing with 3 different government Ministries, trying to get paperwork work signed. It took 6 weeks to get it through the Mayors office, two weeks to get through our Ministry of Genders office, finally got it to Immigrations and they told me they had changed our deadline date from April 15 to March 31, with out any notification. Finally accepted the fact that we did not know about the deadline change and then said we had the wrong forms as they had also changed those this year. So it is back to the drawing board to file out all the new forms and resubmit them.

Our team-mates, Tim and Patty left on furlough to the US this week, so we have picked up a few extra duties, among which is the keeping of the budget. Scary for a guy who could never balanced his checkbook. Bev has the medical and childcare program to look after along with the kitchen/laundry and dining hall. It seems like we just get to a point where we are keeping our heads above water and someone puts another flash board on the dam.
But if Peter could walk on water maybe we can at least tread water for the next three months. I think we may have it easier than Tim and Patty as they have to come back and jump into this with both feet after being in the States for three months while we come back on furlough.

We have cleared maybe 10 acres of property were our buildings are located. So if you take out for the buildings, sidewalks and roads, we have maybe 6 acres that we have to keep mowed. Which seems like a never ending task during the rainy season. We have a 36" cut SCAG mower, which is a very nice unit. A chink in it's armor are the inflatable rear tires. We have killer thrones and they penetrate those tires like a balloon, My brothers have sent me tubeless tire repair kits and our tires have more rubber in plugs than in tire tread. But today the guys cut a side wall which makes it pretty much unrepairable with my small kit. So I dropped about half the balls I was juggling this afternoon and drove into town only to find out the tire shop could not fix it and did not have a replacement. I was about ready to go buy 15 or 20 goats, when I got an email and a friend is flying to Rwanda on Monday and is willing to bring our needed tire with him. God is good and faithful even when I forget to go to Him as my first resort.