June 1st What an amazing day! Before lunch we were all outside working and it looked like it was going to be another day like many others before where we’d had the morning to work, but after lunch was just going to be a downpour. […]
May 30th A very long day, finding out at a long meeting in the morning that there are problems with the quality of materials used for the project & that this could cause some set backs if the materials in question have to be removed […]
MAY 28th The focus, at this point, is to try & get the walls of the septic tank complete before Paul & Bryan depart the end of this week. It’s taking all the man power we have to get the different tasks done from making […]
May 27th Here in Ukraine, today was the last day of school. In the States we may have a celebration often when a child graduates from kindergarten, some when they go from middle-school to high-school. Here, that happens for all the kids every year, so […]
MAY 26 If you haven’t noticed, RAIN has been the theme through the weeks that the teams have been here. It did that through this last night and continued to downpour this morning making work outdoors next to impossible. I know the plants are appreciating the […]
May 21st 2/3 rds of the team returned home! Yes the jet plane left at 3:21pm – something like that We spent the morning going over last minute plans, talking with Slava the construction designer and making sure Ralph passed along all the knowledge he […]
May 20th Our day to visit the adult institutions Nadya, Sasha’s wife, sharing time with a young man who has down’s syndrome Sergey, one of the young guys who will be in Stephen’s home one day soon. He use to live in the orphanage in […]
May 19th Our last full day of work, and boy did we work! The day started off looking like it was going to be a beautiful one. The project for the day was to get the rest of the foundation poured for the back wall […]
May 18th Sorry for my delay in getting these posted, it’s been a crazy busy few days wrapping up with the guys who have been here to work. This was, like the others, a day of hard work and we accomplished what we set out to […]
May 17th Tuesday, with predictions of rain in the forecast, but more cement arriving this day, the work started right after a breakfast of cornbread and beans was prepared. The cement truck arrived & managed not to hit any of our trees and I think […]