Life is cozy now in Kovol! We can power our devices, shut out the wind at night, sleep without mice running about our faces, the list goes on! We fly out tomorrow so this weekend we’ve been prepping the houses for our absence. We’ve finished up wrapping them… Put in Read more
Did I ever tell you that Philip brought a bunch of Germans (well, four of them) over to help build the houses? Well he did, and that’s cool! Not only do Germans help build houses, they also say silly things. Like the time I told a German “let’s go prep Read more
So, as I’m sure you would have guessed, the building has continued on my house. Last week I even ditched milling for half the day in order to help out on the roof. As soon as my house was under roof we began putting Steve’s house up. Unfortunately for Steve’s Read more
While our two weeks off were well spent with Central Area’s conference, logistics (of course), and what might have been dysentery; we are three days into the first build trip! This trip features Bill and Jotham, who know how to build things, and of course Philip who is back with Read more
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
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
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
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
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
Well, we’re off again into the wild blue yonder and looking forward to what this next trip has for us. Today has been a little quiet as the rain rolled in early in the afternoon and we’ve retreated to our tent house. Still though, we were able to get our Read more