So a few of you found out that I turned 50 this week from my parent’s note in the church bulletin. What most don’t know is that I was never supposed to live this long. The doctors who dealt with some of my military injuries concurred I would never live to see 30. So I…
We are getting animals at the Preschool
I remember growing up that occasionally a group would visit our farm like my class (I think it may have been kindergarten) to see the farm animals. I would always be curious why everyone got so excited, they sure would not have been so excited if they had to feed and water them every day….
Getting closer on the playground-final work getting ready for mission team
The view as I wrap up another day roughly 6:30 PM. The light will last long enough for me to boil water for my shower and walk to the shower. I know everyone is tired of hearing about planing boards, but guess what I did this week? I did concrete, repaired a chair, repaired floors…
Another step for the playground equipment
This week was full of more wood for the site. Basically, about 1 and 1/4 time the previous order with almost all of it 1×8 boards meaning more face to be planed down. I have so many boards I am having storage problems until I get them all ready. So I had to use two…
Let’s build a playground-oh no wait let’s just prep the wood for the framing
Most regular readers of my blog know I am a fan of “Tiny House Nation” on the FYI Network. What you may not know is I love a lot of the shows that do a lot of creative things on houses and yards and buildings in general. Things like “Home Town”, “Fixer Upper”, “Rehab Addict”…
Conversations with Barnabas-Elfu Moja
Today’s Conversation with Barnabas is a big one. Today we welcome Elfu Moja to the Prayer/Mission Bear Family. Elfu Moja means one thousand in Kiswahili and he is the 1000th bear made by one of the most caring, sweetest individuals you will ever meet. So today we are interviewing Lynda S. who makes 99.95% of…
to be here or not to be here
Sometimes our path is clear sometimes not So my title this blog is an obvious adaptation of Shakespeare’s to be or not to be from Hamlet. Though that is most likely as far as that connection will go. In fact this blog is more about a Theological question I often struggle with. All of it…
It’s a small world after all
God has created a world that is both large and small at the same time. It is large to our human perspective both from our limited mortal timeframe and our small physical size compared to the entire planet. The world population clock currently has the earth at 7.5 Billion people. So the times I run…
welding burn/sunburn
This last week was an interesting mix of items. I spent a lot of my week trying to get the site ready for my absence while I head home to the States awaiting my work/residence permit renewal process to be completed. But every time I started working on a project, one of the staff would…
Steve and Barnabas 