Monday, August 16th

The past few days have been rather uneventful - no bats, rats, a few centipedes and spiders, but nothing too bizarre. On Saturday I bought a lawn mower - A 2 foot long metal shaft with a 7 inch blade on the bottom. I kind of resembles a short golf putter, but the arm motion is completely different. "Slashers" are what they are fondly known as and I used to be terrified of using one, with the fear of chopping a limb off - either one of my own, or someone else's - but I am slowly getting the hang of it. But a lawn mower for $1.25, I thought it was pretty good.

The power have been great for the days that it is on, and not so great the other times. We had a 2 day outage last week, which had people, including me, a tad bit stressed.

We watched a movie with David Family last night - The movie had many kinds of extreme sports in it, and it was fun to try and explain it all to them and hear the "wow! ooh!" as they were watching snowboarding, surfing and other sports that don't exist here.

The new Babyhouse is being worked on by a team that just arrived on Saturday. They have been accomplishing a lot so far and I can't wait to see how much is completed by the time they leave!