So today, at lunch time of course as I am scrambling to prepare food for myself and five hungry kids, some guys show up at the door and ask me where the phone line was attached to our house. No, "Hello Maam, we're with Telkom and we'd like to get you hooked up again, sorry to bother you at this time of day..." sort of thing... No, it was more like, "Yo, Ibu, where was the phone line attached?" There were about, I didn't have time to count, five guys that came to do what is essentially a one or two guy job. I was a little leary of letting them go into our attic to reconnect the line as I was afraid they might not only step on the trusses and maybe fall through the ceiling. But it went fine, they just left a trail of grass and needles and dirty fingerprints on the wall, behind them... But, we have a working phone again! Yippee!!
Otherwise, life has just been puttering along. The kids are still on holidays until next Wednesday. They have a long Christmas break so that the kids whose family's live interior have a chance for a good long visit especially as some of them can take a couple days to get to their villages. It has been very windy here lately, which means no mosquitoes, always a plus. So today was the first day this week that we went to the pool and we left early because we were cold...
Hugo is currently in the process of planning a complete avionics upgrade for the Cessna Caravan that is being used in Aceh. At first they thought that he should go there for a couple weeks to do part of it. But now they're talking about bringing the plane here and doing everything here. This is a much better idea as the MAF base in Meulaboh doesn't have a hangar so everything is done out in the sun. At least here there is a hangar and all the equipment needed. This is probably going to be an 8 week job for two guys... Wow! I have to say that I'm really, really glad to hear that Hugo is probably not going to be gone for two, or more, weeks...