In addition to having spring cleaning in December, Mike and I spread selecto in our front yard, leveled it off and pressed it down, spread gravle in front of our carport and on the side our house and put together a pathway to connect the backs of both houses and a pathway to the trashpit, which we moved and made larger. It was a very fun day working together and it feels good to have something finished and accomplished.
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The first well we drilled in Brisa Del Norte turned out to not be deep enough so we are drilling a second one. It is crazy how much water it takes to drill a well to provide water. We are aiming for 150-160 feet for this new well, and we are 70 feet down. There is not much work other than setting up the draining holes and canals, starting the machine with water, and then running the machine but it will make a world of difference for this community. "Right There" is relative. We finally got the pile of 3/4 River Rock to put in the tanks after we clean them. By hand. It is not a hard process but it is insanely time consuming and tedious. After borrowing all of the materials we need we place a screen over a tub, place rocks on the screen, scrub them while one person pours water, then we dump them into a wheel barrel where we pull out all of the small sticks that could clog the system, to the best of our ability. Then we dump the stones into one of the eight tanks we disconnected, carried to the water tower, and cleaned, which involved disconnecting the pipes we had glued together a few days before and taking the underground tank out of the mudpit with Carlos. We also painted all of the pipes that were not already painted blue, then after the rain washed all of that off, we painted them again. We have 5 tanks filled with stone, and it is a very sensitive system so we push forward in faith as we mess with the leveling and pray that it all works out to sustain the school. 1 Corinthians 15:58 "Therefore brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your work is not in vain in the Lord." It's not in vain, God is going to use this, if not for the school, because of the process I've learned so many new skills, so much more Spanish, and I got to grow closer to Carlos, a man completely and totally sold out to God. It has also been an absolute mud pit from all the rain, and the cows didn't want to help, just watch us work. We spread selecto in the school yard to fill in the mudpits made by people driving through. We also put up a little barricade to stop people from driving through so the kids are safer but they just knock it down whenever they want to drive through so we are going to have to put more rocks and put posts in the ground to keep them out. The selecto required leveling a pile of sand that had hardened, spreading the selecto, leveling it to the best of our ability, and pressing it down with the van. Abelino did the rest of the school yard while we were in class, he worked until it was done, he's an ox.
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