Stous update
A short update from the Stous family.
A short update from the Stous family.
Philip’s house has had a major growth spurt this weekend! On Friday, Josh and John Michael were swapped out for Jotham and today Steve and Bill came in. Now we have one week to get the Hansen’s house in set up because after this build trip the families are moving Read more…
Well, the days of our big blue plastic houses sticking out like a sore thumb are coming to an end. The Kovol people are helping us blend in a little better with… bamboo camouflage Now this is no small undertaking! The local area doesn’t currently have bamboo, so all the Read more…
We are back in the bush and ready for action! and buy action I mean more milling, there’s nothing like settling in to a 45 minute cut to really get the blood pumping! Our newcomer this trip is John Michael… He seems to be a handy guy with his thick Read more…
So fun story (unfortunately I don’t have photos of this fun story, but luckily for you I have a drawing app on my phone)! A few weeks back, on the second mill trip, Steve had been cutting a tree down for us to turn into glorious lumber. Unfortunately, instead of Read more…
So we decide to go wandering about through the woods turning trees into lumber and what do you know, we’re on our third milling trip! As you may recall from the last post, we needed to get some bars for the chainsaws from town, and we kind of succeeded. We Read more…
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 men have been gone doing the very manly work of building our houses and growing their facial hair to the macho-est of proportions, we ladies have not been sitting around eating bonbons and pining for them. Our days have been brimming with all the expected duties that come Read more…