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A quick update on the milling and helicopter shuttles we just finished.
Milling Trip 2: Day 26
Well, as I noted in the last post we are down to just the small chainsaw. That means these last few work days we haven’t been milling, but more just preparing for milling on the next build trip. We’ve been cutting down trees and bucking them into logs cut to Read more…
3 weeks without our husbands
I have never been this long without Steve since we are married. It seems strange but I do get used to it, I get into a routine for myself and for Oscar and it works. But it’s hard work to be the one always responsible. So I am definitely looking Read more…
Guessing game
How much stuff can a helicopter move in 3 days? Life as a missionary seems to be jumping from one thing to another you’ve never done before, always out of your depth. The answer (we’re hoping) is 450kg X 5 per day; but we are totally weather dependent, and so Read more…
Milling Trip 2: Day 18
Well, the “milling” part of our milling trip is now officially over as our second large chainsaw is now refusing to work. It started yesterday when my only reward for laboring constantly at the pull cord was a resounding backfire, which at least was entertaining for the spectators involved. All Read more…
Tree of frustration
Today feels like a total, complete failure. We spent all day yesterday preparing a big tree. We get excited about big trees because they give a lot of wood. We felled it, cut it into sections, manhandled the sections into good positions, cut the scabs off so we had square Read more…
Run with endurance
Run with endurance. Not really a new idea, not really very insightful, and it could have been said by anyone. The thing that has grabbed me though is ‘the race that is set before us’. It hit me, this is the path God himself has specifically set for me. It’s no accident I’m here facing these challenges
Milling Trip 2: Day 10
I nearly died today, or at least mangled a limb, but I didn’t get a single scratch, which is pretty neat! So you recall that gravy train tree I was talking about in our last post? Well the bottom of it (which is lying on the top of the hill) Read more…
Milling Trip 2: Day 8
Today we got to mill the gravy train tree! A massive behemoth, too wide for us to cut normally, so we had to get creative. So this tree is way too big to just cut up into logs, plus it’s situated on a spur of the mountain with dropoffs on Read more…
Milling Trip 2: Day 6
Today was fun! I had no idea it would be fun, but the fun came anyway! Normally, the people like to rest on Sunday, fine by me. But today when I woke up I was surprised to see the place was packed. Folks from every village were here, and not Read more…