Build Trip 2: Day 11

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…

Build Trip 2: Day 6

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…

Milling Trip 3: Day 7

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…

Build Trip 1: Day 17

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…

Build Trip 1: Day 14

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…

Build Trip 1: Day 10

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…