Aren't you convinced that Haiti is beautiful?! :)

Some of the views from our area...

This is our view of the Caribbean Sea. Sometimes when we have a really clear day, we can see the ocean on both sides of us. :)

Meet Alyssa Jeanette

This is our neighbor's (fence cutter :) ) baby. The parents gave Lyndon the honor of naming her.

One Sunday afternoon some of the young ones hiked over to Yeye's house.

Rose and Yeye posed for this picture there.

Pouring the roof...

 Almost finished with the forming up...

 Of course, no job ought to be accomplished without some fun... :)

 The bucket brigade. They would pass the bucket from on to the next up the ladder to be emptied on the roof.

 See that guy hanging on the rope? That's how they would send the empty buckets down... Pretty neat, eh?! :)

 Here's what it looked like up on the roof...

 Mme Antonio cooking food for all the workers...

 Rose enjoyed hauling water for the concrete. :)

 Here you can see how it's all supported underneath the concrete/forms...

 getting there...

 But it got dark before they were finished... I love these silhouettes... :)

*Photo credits go to Cherise! Thanks so much!*

Coming along!

 Thought you all would enjoying seeing the progress on the addition... The roof was just poured on Friday! I don't have pictures of that yet, though...

Fort Garit

I thought you all would enjoy pictures that my brothers took of the ruins of the French Fort Garit that they explored last month... It's about a 4 hour hike from here, even though we can see it easily from our house...

Legend has it that the walls are still standing because the French killed anyone who opposed them, and mixed their blood with the concrete...

History intrigues me greatly... Don't you wish sometimes that walls could talk, and tell you all the stories of bygone days???

More Addition Pictures...

I am sorry I am so behind on my posting... Seems like everything is happening so fast, and I don't have the time to keep you all posted... In these pictures, the bosses poured the top of the cistern... 

      ...Should I even admit what it looks like now??? The walls are up most of the way, and we're hoping to have the roof poured in another 2 weeks or so!

The foundation walls...

And this old relic is the dump truck that's been hauling our supplies up the mountain for us... This is the way all the block, cement and steel came... There's a sand pit about a mile from us, that we hauled most of our sand from, but the sand is running out back there, so we're having some hauled from TG too.

Mixing cement... or talking???

It will be so nice to be able to use the cistern, and that won't be any too soon. We've been hauling our water from several miles away, because it hasn't rained in so long that the springs are drying up.

This last picture shows a little more progress... I think Cherise took some current pictures today that I hope to post soon... 

Here's what the children are up to!

 Cherise H. is helping me out this winter in the house. I've been so glad for her help already! Here the children are enjoying a story with her. (Amy S., do you notice the wall? Thanks for the ideas!! :) )

 Jared giving Cherlise a ride in the wheelbarrow.

 Somehow Weston snagged someone's hat! :)

Looks like a nest of little birds don't they? Cherise was sharing out some after supper treat. :)

More on the fence...

 ...and the next morning the fence was cut in 3 places! (more on that in the next post)

 installing a passage gate...

 ... locking it for the first time...

 John Robert R. and Jonas L. working on the fence.

 John and Enos stringing out the wire...

And these little guys are just enjoying the entertainment...