progress report

Let’s see, as I said fridge isn’t working right. We now need to order some parts from the US, so who knows how long that is going to take. All of the bedrooms are finished except to get the curtains up and the clothes pole for the closet. The guest room has lots of bins to go through (clothes, kitchen stuff) as does the girls room, but that will happen as it happens. We need to get some dressers probably, not all the bins we brought to use for dressers survived. All of the ceilings and insulation is up. We need to paint the main room and bathrooms and finish up the bathrooms (tub in one, shower walls and sink in the other). We basically ended up giving ourselves these past two months to focus on the house with college things as they are able; now we will switch to the other way. There is a guy serving short term with Gospelink in Malawi that has to come here for a few weeks due to visa issues and also his dad will be here for awhile, and he has agreed to help us wherever we need him, so that should be good!
There is quite a bit planted in the garden now. Some that was planted on a Saturday was already up that first Wednesday! Mainly garden items for this year, which we will use ourselves and summer teams. Doing a lot of testing this year to see what works, what doesn’t, trying different methods. We are also doing some administrative things for Gospelink with banking and building materials. At our training they always asked us, “What do you think you’ll be doing?” Some of this stuff wasn’t in our plans, but now that we are here fulltime, there is lots of catching up to do around here. Bri has sat in on some student interviews, we will start trying to get Gospelink’s tax exempt number, we are waiting for money and the time to work on the farm equipment. We will soon be getting ready to help with getting supplies and setting things up for summer teams that will start arriving in April. Kelly is using her accounting skills now as well doing the finances for the college and being Henry’s secretary!