Life goes on...

Well, we've hit the ground running here. It's been a week since we've returned from family conference and we've barely caught our breath.
One of our a/c units wasn't functioning when we returned from furlough so we had it fixed right away. A few days after our return from family conference, someone pulled out the hoses for the a/c located on the exterior fan box. Not good news. We ended up having to purchase an entire new unit. Not exactly in the post-furlough budget... But they have a new low-watt version that we could get. Hopefully we won't blow our house circuit breaker as much anymore...
Hugo's been busy getting into his new role as manager of maintenance or "MOM" for short. He's been organizing things and getting a fresh start. It's a good time to do this as we are short of pilots right now so that means less maintenance.
I think I'll just list some of the things we've been getting used to again:
making bread... like a lot...
sharing our home with lizards
the war with ants (so thankful for poison...)
the swimming pool, even though both diving boards and the slide are all broken, it's still a fun place to play on the really hot days we've been having
Did I just say hot??? No real rain for over a month now. The grass is getting crunchy...
How much time it takes to prepare food here!
Really really crummy internet... I'm using dial-up to post this post... rather archaic eh?
Hanging out with Ritha - always fun!
Yokben playing the piano in the afternoons...
Roosters crowing at 4:30 (thankfully I sleep through this, but others in this house don't...)
Church at 8:30 am and Sunday School (which they've asked me to help teach) at 7:30... Rise and Shine people!!
Floor hockey!!
Going to at least 3 different shops just to get the basic staples for your kitchen pantry. Then off to the market!
Lousy water pressure...
Warmish water out of the tap. The water in Canada is fridge-cold out of the tap!!
Food wrapped in paper so delicious and for a mere $1.25!
Worm treatments... don't ask...
I could go on and on but I won't...
This week Mikah is helping out at a VBS program done by an American church for the local Papua Harapan (Hope) School. It's a great opportunity for her to have some fun with some local kids in a structured environment.
Today we had to get finger-printed by the police. This was able to occur in the MAF office, thankfully... However, they don't have the sofisticated finger-print scanner that the immigration office in Jayapura has. So it was out with the black ink and then the wet wipes to follow...