Some of you have been asking me where is the blog. Sorry. I am too busy during the days and too tired in the evenings.
Work on the water tower has been held up due to not being able to find cement blocks in the size needed to pour the roof. None in the area at all. Luckner could not find any so he ordered and paid in advance for some to be made and delivered last weekend. Promised for no later than Sunday morning. Yes, well tomorrow is Friday and they are still not here. Visits to the business site in Liancourt and phone calls have not helped any. We are not the only ones waiting for blocks.
In the meantime work is continuing in the new house. The floors are going down, cement of course, with some coloured powder to brighten it somewhat. Hopefully next week we will be able to find and purchase a basin for the bathroom and get windows ordered.
Too, the country is once again out of gas. We have only half a drum for the generator so I am using it even more sparingly than usual. Businesses who need gas to operate are not doing anything right now.
The cost of rebar, cement, and truck loads of sand, gravel and rocks has risen dramatically. There is a big demand for construction supplies and a shortage in the countlry, thus it is a sellers market.
Sonia, from Calgary, is here at HATS for one week. She is making herself useful doing everything she sees that could help. One problem with Sonia is that she is quiet. I tend to forget she is here and have forgotten to show and explain some things to her. Hope she doesn’t leave feeling she has been overlooked.
Sonia sewing for Karen
Sonia with kids
Luckner is even busier than usual. He has started a frozen juice business at his house. It is called juice here and is similar to what we would call a freezie. He has quite a set-up. He makes it, bags it, and freezes it at his place and the sellers come to his house in the mornings to purchase to resell in their own little businesses. He works at it every evening, and has people who are helping as well. Ti Luc and the other children are on the receiving end of one quite often. I have to watch that they don’t eat his profits.
Juice ready to be frozen
Luckner’s business -Juice going into the bags
The kids have been enjoying sleeping in the tent with Ti Luc often. They obviously enjoy it as they keep asking to do so again and argue over whose turn it is. They decided it would be nice to sleep in Mom’s tent with her too. I quickly put the kibosh on that idea as I don’t get enough sleep as it is.
Mirlande sleeping with Ti Luc in tent
Ti Luc decided last weekend that he could now go pee pee, big boy style, all by himself, thank you very much. He, of course, needs help with his clothes and he likes to get them all off, as he can keep his balance better that way. After that he forcefully say, “Let go” or “Lage m”. He is quite proud of himself and so is his mama. Another milestone noted.
Holding juice (freezie) myself
Nothing to report on the stove with the exploded top as of yet. No answer at any of the phone numbers we have for the business in PaP. One good thing about that explosion was that it proved I do not have a weak heart. Good thing!!!
Blessings everyone.
~Karen
