Back to Haiti

by Jimmy
We are back in Haiti! Our internet is back and we are just waiting on EDH our city power. We weathered the storm, Isaac pretty well. Here on the property we just had a few large branches come down, and part of a neighbor’s roof come over the wall. Nothing too major. I probably freaked Troy out a little when I texted him that a branch fell on the truck.

Looks pretty bad, but it had hung up and was barely sitting on the truck. I drove out from under it, and we pulled it down.

Returning to Haiti, we did not really know what to expect. We were kind of expecting the worst - flooded house, bugs, mold, dead batteries... SOMETHING. There really could be anything. We arrived last Tuesday to a clean house, EDH, and ice in the freezer. Very, very nice. Thank you Jr. for taking care of all that. We slept quite soundly and have since. It is so nice to be home and not have to worry about packing and unpacking.

We did have a very good summer, just too much traveling. We loved seeing family and friends. God blesses us too much.

I immediately started working on the garden. Unfortunately, the tomatoes I had left as seedlings had grown and died. I had such luck with tomatoes in the states. Not so much here. All that survived was basil, which grows like a weed, and one good onion. Well, here goes Take 3 on the garden. I have high hopes after the compost I was able to make through the summer was added.

We have two new baby goats, for a total of eight now, and after I finish the second coop, their pen will be next. 16 Leghorn chickens are ready to start laying (fingers crossed) soon, so I am almost back to my farming self. I even went out scything this morning, and it worked better than I could have hoped.

The school has new tile on the floor, and lesson plans, well today have not gone so well, but up to today, very well. We are excited to start this next school year.

Abbi update: Adjusting well to the change. Both flights she started crying just as the plane left the terminal, and we thought "Oh, no." But she soon settled down and flew like a champ. Hopefully she will get into some kind of sleeping/eating schedule. Something she has yet to know.

Here she is eating bananas, sitting up like a big girl at the dinner table. 

She has yet to find a food she does not like.

First Sunday back, looking so pretty in one of her many outfits.

This was just wrong I know, but she was fussy.

She loves crinkly plastic, and she doesn't know what rock candy is yet.

Ready for bed with dad. I cannot believe how big she is. Love it.