Hello all,
Thought I would give you all a little update. I got word yesterday one of the septic babies was being discharged. Good news! No word on the other baby or the situation with the pregnant daughter/step-dad, but I will update you as soon as I hear.
We are in the process of building a large scale chicken coup right now. In an effort to buy local, we are purchasing much of our wood from a local family. We requested 1ft wide by 8ft long boards - pretty standard. Well, he didn't cut them that way. He said he had 20inch wide boards. Ok, so I recalculated EVERYTHING for purchasing and building with 20inch boards. When we got there to negotiate price, many of the boards were 17 or 18 inches. I told him this was a problem because I drew the plans for 20inch boards. He said, "no problem, I have 21inch and 22inch boards as well to average out to 20inches..." For anyone that has ever built anything, they know this isn't exactly how it works. Just had to roll with it and hope it works?!
Looking forward to Halloween in Central America, it should be pretty crazy and VERY different than in the States! Take pictures of your costumes and send them my way!!!
What a heartbreaker for the Vikings Sunday…
Miss you all and look forward to seeing everyone after Christmas,
PD
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Hi Patrick,
ReplyDeleteI just stumbled across your blog while doing some preliminary research for a trip we are taking to Resurrection Priory in may 2010. I am a youth minister at St Patrick's Church in Edina, MN and we have been working with Basil and the monks for several years. We will be bringing a group of college kids down in May and I would love to get in touch and hopefully get your help with a few things. Could you please send me an email when you get a chance at nstecklein@stpatrick-edina.org
thanks and God bless you and all you are doing!!!