Merry Christmas

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I am in Prince George for a few days to spend Christmas with my family. My kids and I spent some time together on Monday to celebrate Christmas. I  will be back in Chilliwack on Monday afternoon and it looks like I should be on my way back to Mexico by the middle of January. Thank you all for your prayers and support , together great things can be accomplished for Gods kingdom. As of today I am just over 75% in my support. Merry Christmas.  Ed

Oct 26

Good morning, Today I have the privilege to go and speak to a Christan school and share my story. I ask for your prayers as I go this morning and that the Holy spirit will speak through me. Thanks for your prayers and support.  Ed

Oct. 17

Good morning, Hard to believe that I have been in Chilliwack one week already. I have been busy with raising personal support. I will be here for another two weeks and then I will go to Prince George area for a week and then come back here. Please keep praying for this. God bless. Thank you for your prayers and support.    Ed

Oct. 10

Good morning, I am in Chilliwack now. I arrived yesterday around lunch time. I will be here for a couple months to raise personal support for my work in Mexico. I am looking forward to connecting with everyone and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving weekend. God bless. Thank you for your prayers and support.

Sunday Sept. 3

Greetings from Mexico, The weather here is overcast and a light mist. We had 7 rvs in here last night, it was good expierence for Isaias. The snow birds are starting to move again. The GM van I think is fixed, it ran good yesterday. The Ford should be done today and I will pick it up after church. Isaias and his wife " Ana " started to trim the palm trees Friday and Uriel retrenched the palm trees, pic included. . I hope everyone has a great weekend and I will see you soon.  Thank you for your prayers and support.

Oct 2

Good morning, My departure from here has been delayed by a few days as I still need to tidy up some more loose ends. I was directed to a mechanic yesterday that can down load computer codes in the vans, so this morning I will bring in the GM and the Ford in the afternoon. Then on monday afternoon I will take the bus into San Diego for what I hope will be a quick fix and possible leave hereWednesday or thursday sometime. We had some thunder and lightning this morning but no rain. God bless. Thank you for all your prayers and support.

Oct.1st

Good morning, today will like yesterday, finnishing up little things and packing for my drive back to Canada tomorrow. Isaias is feeling more comfortable here now and will be here with Sarai on weekends. Between the two they will be fine. Please pray for my drive back as I will be leaving early tomorrow morning and I am hoping to arrive later Monday. Thanks for all your prayers and suppport. See you soon. picture of by the pool

Sept. 30

Greeting from Mexico. Last few days have gone by so fast. The transion with Isaias is going very well and he seems to take pride in what he does. As we shuffle things around around and prepare to leave early saturday morning, I believe Isaias will do well. Yesterday was a little running around for me and tidy up some loose ends. Today we recieve load of lave rock to tidy up the yard and also emptying out the pool. I have to take the bus in for a grease and check out why transmission brake has stopped working.  My hip and ribs are in a bit of discomfort, keeping me awake a bit at night. Giving me more time to pray about things. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon. God bless.  Thank you for all your prayers and support.
Pictures of our frond yard

Sept. 28

Good morning, Rob and Brenda arrive safely last night. Today will be Isaias move in day  and get settled into his new role. We will contoinue to with yard work. I still need to connect with one more pastor before I leave to get an update fom him. I will try to do this today or tomorrow. We recieved about 15 minutes of hard rain last night around midnight and everything is and looks refreshed. It has now been 48 hour that I have not taken any meds and I am doing ok. My hip is hurting today as I did a lot of walking yesterday, will have to do less today. Thanks you for all your prayers and support. 

Sept. 27

Good morning, what a beautiful morning here, clear skies and that means it will be a hot day. Rob and Brenda should arrive here early to mid afternoon. This week I will leave things in Isaias hands and just walk along side of him as he goes through the ruetine things here. The pool will be shut down later this week so that will take some work load of his shoulders.
I finnished my meds and now will see how I really feel, I do have some more pain killers but want to see if I can do without them. I do feel a bit more discomfort but it is not to bad yet. Thanks again for all your prayers and support.

Sept.26

This morning I got up early and cleaned the pool and then then I finnished cleaning out the care takers house so Isaias can move in this afternoon or tomorrow. He will be running this place when I come back to Canada in 5 or 6 days. He is moving here with his wife Anna. Today is another beautiful day, clear skies and hot. Sarai is looking after the office today and that gave me time to go to church ths morning as well. Rob and Brenda will be in travel today as they are to arrive here tomorrow afternoon to do some book work and get Isaias set up for the transition. Please pray for Rob and Brenda and Isaias and myself as we prepare for the transition this coming week. Thank you for your prayers and support. 

Sept. 25

Good morning, Yesterday I slept in till 7 a.m. and was rushed to gey ready as I had Isaias here ans Randal showed up to do some more work on the care takers house. We got a lot of little things taken care of and  today will be more of the same. Trying to tidy up things before I come back to Canada in one week. I am feeling better every day and have gone without the walking stick for two days now. I find myself rolling on my side in my sleep now so that is a real god sign. We have a school group of about 30 coming in this morning for the pool. Thank you for all your prayers and support. I hope everyone has a great weekend. God bless     Please pray for Rob and Brenda as they are traveling down here this weekend.

Sept.23

Yesterday Isaias ans Urael finnished the pool entrance and today they will have three loads of sand to spread out in the play area. I am ddoing some wartering and still not able to lift much but feel a lot better. Walking more and more without the cane, still use it for longer walks. Praise the Lord for the healing in my body and thank you so much for all your prayers and support. God bless.

Sept 22

Good morning, yesterday pastor Isaias and Urael worked on the pool entrance. We are cleaning up the front entranceway. They should finnish that today. I took it easy yesterday as I tried to do watering the day before and the pain increased in me ribs. To much bending and pulling. I feel a lot better today and will take it easy again. It is easier now to get in out of bed and to stand up. Thank you for your prayers and support. Have a great day.    Pic of loading a truck with onions from across the road from camp.

Sept 20

Good morning, here is looking out my front door toward our tenting area. Yesterday Sarai called in sick as she and her son were at the doctors office. It was a quiet day with only a hand full of people at the pool. Today I feel a lot better and I can walk a short distance without the cane now. My hip is still sore but on the mend. My ribs are a bit itchy today so that is a good sign. Isaias and Ureal will be doing the pool and yard work today and I will try to do some very light duty watering. It is very cool here this morning and I hope the cloud cover clears soon. Thanks again for all your prayers and support.  

Sunay

Good Morning, The weather here is over cast and a little mist falling. I think this will burn off by noon. Yesterday was a very quiet day here and I got lots of rest. I am feeling better every day and today I feel sore on my right side, the side I landed on. My hip is improoving and hopefully I can drop the cane shortly. I had a an rv come in later yesterday, a very nice couple from Austrailia and we sat outside and shatted for a while. God gave me another restfull night last night and I think that is from all your prayers. Thank you for all your prayers. Today will be another day of light duty. Have a great and wounderful day.  God bless.

sept. 18

Good morning, Today I feel a bit more stiff and sore than I did yesterday but yet I feel better. I took it easy yesterday and God gave me another very restful night. This morning  I walked around the yard a bit and my hip is starting to feel better as well. I am turning all colors right now and I think that is a good sign. Thanks for all your prayers and support.  God bless. 

Sept 17

Good morning
Yesterday Isaias and Uriel (his son)and myself were working on cleanning out one of our water ewsivors and I slipped and fell about 8 feet down onto the concrete floor. I knock the wind out of myself and managed to climb my way out of the tank. I sat there for a bit to get my to try to cathmy breath but it was very short breaths only. Isaias rush to to the Christian hospital here and they hooked me up with oxigen and i v and xrays showed that I fractured one rib and broke one rib. The doctor there goes to the same church as I go and he was giving me a hard time last sunday when the church was here, small world.  They said I was going to stay there for 5 to 6 hours so Isaias need to get back here so he called Jonathon and told him what happened and he was not able to come there right away but his wife came. She made sure I got lunch and then supper as well. This morning when Isaias showed  up his wife made extra tortias with beans and and I am not sure what all is in there, they are good though. I am a bit stiff and sore today but that was expected but God gave me a very restful night last night. I am very thankfull that God protected my head and back in that fall, it could have been a lot worse. I will rest for a few days and see how things go. I can sit and lay down comfortably but walking right now is a bit painful due to the blow the hip took. Thank you all for your prayers and I will keep you posted.  God bless. 

Sept.13

Yesterday, first thing in the morning Jonathon and myself connected with a few local ministries here for updates on them. Then in the afternoon I was watering the grass and putting down some fertilizer in the trees. Today pastor Isaiah should be back here and we will do some more little prodjects around the yard and in the afternoon Jonathon and myself will connect with a few other ministries.

Sept 13

Today will be a little clean up after the church group was here yesterday and I also have some ministry stuff to do this after noon. Mexico has independance day this Wednesday, so they get Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off so it may be busy here those days.

Sept. 12

Good morning
The trip to San Diego went well and on Sat. Isaiah and myself workrd on cleaning the grounds here, the day went by fast as he only works half days on Saturdays and I had to go get the van from Bills house in the afternoon. Today I wikk get the pool ready and ckean up a little garbage left behind from the b-day that was here yesterday. I will head off to church and after church, after church the church is coming here to spend the afternoon here. Have a blessed day and thank you for your prayers and support. 

Sept.9

Today Isaiah comes back here from helping another missionary family for the past week and half. He will be trainning to run the campground till I leave to come back to Canada for a month or so at the end of this month. I also have to leave for San Diego very early tomorrow morning to pick up the bus and bring it back here. I  will getting a ride with the missionary that Isaiah worked for this last week and half.

SEPT 8

Good morning, today is starting out cloudy and cooler but I am sure that will burn off before noon. Today will be more yard work and a little pool prep as my church will come here after Sunday service for the afternoon. I also have a kids birthday party coming in on Saturday. Thanks for all your prayers and support.

Sept.7

Yesterday was a quiet day in the campground and I managed to get a little thing done. Today will be a lot of the same things, pool, cut grass ect. I woke up this morning with a sore hip and stiff back so we will see how that works itself out this morning. Other than that things are going good and the weather is cloudy in the morning and sunny in the afternoon.  Have a great day.

Sept. 6

Good morning, Yesterday morning I spent cleanning the pool and area and cleaning up the pallopa area. Then I went to church and Sarai watched the campground. I basically took the afternoon off and when Sarai went home then I was out and about. Today I will clean the pool and area and the pallopa's again and I will also have to do a garbage run and maybe even two. I will finnish up the day cleaning up the yard.

It is Saturday

We are fogged in this morning. I would think this will burn off before noon and then warm up again. Well I did not get the office cleaned yesterday so it will be on the list of things to do today. I need to clean my house as well and seeing the grass and everything is wet out there, I think that will be a great place to start this morning. I hope you all have a great long weekend. Thanks for your prayers and support

Back to here

Today looks a lot like the rest of the week has, more grass to water and edge, get ready for the weekend, make sure washroom and garbage cans are clean and general clean up. I should also clean the office space today.

April 23

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April 18

Greetings from Mexico

Another week has gone by and  the caretakers house is starting to take shape. Pastor Isiah and his son have worked on the house all week and they will be starting to put in some plumbing this week. We had a three tenters in for a couple nights and now an rv pulled in. The swimming pool kept me busy for the last few days as algy was setting in and I had to get rid of it. The pool looked good this morning and today we had 14 people in the pool and a bday party of 14 people as well. I am doing well and now looking forward to my daughter coming down for a week. I hope you all had a great weekend and thanks for all your prayer and support.  Picture of Olive watching the workers on the house.

April 13

Yesterday the weather was clear skies and calm so I sprayed the weed garden again and cleaned up the garbage cans after the weekend. Watering the grass was also needed and the water ran all day long. Today it was colder and very windy so I took a load of garbage to the dump, checked on the construction on the caretakers house, did some book keeping and before I knew it the day was almost done. I am doing well here and I thank you for all your prayers and support. Here are a few updated pictures of the caretakers house. God bless

April 11

Greetings, The weather here was wounderful for the past few days that I have been back here. I have not felt any after shocks yet. Sara, how works part time here sayed all her family lives in Mexicali and they had a lot of damage there. Her family is ok and only small injuries. The pool here recieved some crcks in the foot wash pool, I have been busy since I returned from Haiti, watering grass, cleaning palopa's, weed spraying, picking up garbage and yes Evelyn I gave Olove some attention to. Here are a few more Haiti pictures. God bless and thank you for all your prayers and support. Picture with all the tents, over 10,000 tents on that hill side and the rainny season is just arriving.

April 08

Greetings from Mexico, I just returned back to Mexico today. I was in Haiti for a few days were There was much destruction and tent cities all over the place. It was hard to take to look at all the crushed homes and buildings and knowing there could still be bodies under all that mess. I will be posting pictures from there for the next few blogs. Mexico also had an earth quake while I was away and it shook the camp ground here but did no damage here. Sounds like Mexicali got hit hard and there is a lot of damage. It is close the the U.S. boerder and east of were I drove down today. I drove down the coastline and did not see any sign of damage there. Thank you all for your prayers and support. God bless.

Mar. 28

Another week done and a new one started. This week we have two groups here, Two more house builds. Rob should be here in an hour or so with the groups, I did not have go this time. The week ended with burning down an outhouse and Iasiah finnshing two rounds of blocks on the reno on the caretakers house. Today we had a lot of people here, some for the pool and others for the playground. I have one rv and a group of 8 tenting tonight. Thanks for all your payers and support.  Ed

Mar.26

Another busy day, Keri was busy cleaning the pool all day along with a couple odds and ends and I pressure washed around the pool, weed sprayed and did a few odds and ends. Pastor Iasiah poured more concrete to make the dog a pad and got thing ready for monday. Monday he will start the brick work for the caretakers house. The day went by so fast today that here we are going into a weekend again. have a great weekend and God bless.

mar.24

Another busy day, the workers have the floor ready for the new concrete slab. They will mix and pour it tomorrow. I weed sprayed and watered all day today. I had to run uptown and pick up a few things for the workers to.  I am tired tonight so I will turn in early and the camp ground has been quiet for almost a week now.

Mar,22

Hard to believe March is almost done, how time flies when your having fun. Last week we got 4 truck loads of gravel in our entrance way and the group that was here leveled it and today I put the final level on it, that took me most of the morning. I also took all the garbage to the dump this morning and that was two loads. This afternoon I had the weed sprayer on my back for 5 hours. Trying to catch up on some yard work before the next group comes. Pastor Isaiah and his helper worked on the caretakers house all day. He is almost ready to start laying bricks now.  picture of the caretakers house.

Mar. 21

Last couple weeks have been very busy with groups and house builds. Seem like every group had a few people with a flu like illness and late last week it was my turn. Today I feel better and now it is time to start catching up with watering and weeding. this week we don't have a group here and the week after we have 2 groups again. The play ground here is reserved today and sounds like it is a large group. So I don't anticipate I will get to much done other things done today but monitor our store. We called our dog, Olive. She  is a black labbish and growing quickly. Thanks for all your prayers.

mar.16

 Hi, I have been very busy for the last 5 days and I have not had the time to get on the internet. Saturday and Sunday I was in San Diego switching groups and  and now bust on  a build site. After supper we have had things to do here in the camp ground right up to bed time. These 5 acres seem like a lot more than 5 acres sometimes. The weather has been great now for the last 5 days and looks like it should continue for the rest of the week. Thank you  for your prayers and support.   

Mar 11

Greetings from Mexico

Sorry for not keeping up with the blog, it has been extremely busy here with the house builds and extra activities here with the groups. We  went to a different church last night and what a great experience that was. They were so inviting and they had a translator there and we heard an awesome message as well. Tonight we have penciled in going to a migrant camp share God's word and food distribution as well. These camps are suffering right now from all the rain we have had. The rain has damaged the field that they work and left them unemployed for the sort term. Thanks for your prayers and support,  Picture of our future watch dog. She is a black labish.

March 07

Back from San Diego with another group. It was raining most of the way. There was a lot of water running across the roadway and rocks on the road. The weather is to dry up now for the rest of the week. yahoooo. San Diego was getting a lot of rain as well. Tomorrow we start with the house builds and out reaches in the community. I feel real tired tonight so I will update more tomorrow. 

mar.5

Today was a very productive around the yard, we got the trench dug for the pool pump out and the bus got washed along with the old care takers house and some weed spraying and grass trimming. This is so helpful having a group here to help with some of these duties. Tomorrow I head back to San Diego to pick up another group and bring them here. On monday they both start thier house builds. Have a great and blessed weekend.   Picture of sea shells lined up along the palm tree bed. this work was done by Thea

March 04

Greetings, wow I missed a couple days and my daughter informs me to get writing. I was in San Diego for two days and got a lot of things done and I will be going back there on Saturday to pick up another group on Sunday morning. It was very nice to have this group here early, they pitched in and help out around the yard and kitchen set up. Their willingness to help out was greatly appreciated by all of the staff members. I guess I should take some pictures to post on here. Thank you for all your prayers and support for making all this possible.

mar 01

Today was another busy day with weed control , swimming pool and setting up 5 tents for our first group due here wed. night. I leave at 6 am tomorrow to go to San Diego. I have a few things to do and pick up there tomorrow and then the group on wed. and drive right back to here. There is 1 rv in here tonight. I will have pastor Abreham here tomorrow till Rob and Brenda show up in the afternoon. Then they will be in charge. Picture of part of the play area. Please pray for our travel in the next couple days. Thank you for all your prayers. 

feb 28

It was quite the rain storm we had last night. It ended this morning and the sun was out all day. It is drying up nicely now. I have 1 left over rv from last night tonight. They decided to stay 3 nights.  I took it easy all day and the couple that is staying a few more nights took me for lunch a couple doors down from here. It was very thoughtful and kind of them. Please pray for Rob and Brenda as they travel down here. Please pray for me as I will be going up to San Diego on Tuesday's and returning back here with a group on Wednesday. I hope everyone has a great and blessed week.  The bus I will be taking up to San Diego

feb 27

Greetings, I was busy with more watering and general cleanup around the yard. Bud, who was in here with his rv from day 1 for me here, left this morning. Felt rather empty for a while. Tonight I have 3 rvs and 1 tenter. Two of the rvs are from Kelowna. Tonite it started to rain here but only lasted for about 1 hour. should dry up and they are calling for more sunshine. Rob and Brenda are driving down here over the next few day so please pray for them as they travel.  Hope you all have a great weekend.  our pool that is now ready for use.

feb 26

wow Feb. is almost over. Today was busy with watering, the olive orchard and some palm trees. cleaned out garbage cans and sprayed some more weeds. The weather has been nice, starts off a little cloudy but that burns off by mid morning. It was cool at night for a few days but seems to be a bit warmer now at night. Everything is going well down here and I am now looking forward to some groups coming down.  Thank you for all your prayers.  picture of the front yard joinning the playground

feb.25

Today Eva was here cleaning showers, kitchen, palopas and the ford van. I did some little thing to the vehical to have them ready for when the groups get here. Getting very close to that time now.A daily job now is checking the pool aswell. I had pastor Abreham here from mid afternoon to 8;30 tonight, that way I could go to a meeting and also take in the thursday night church service.  There is 1 tenter in here tonght.  Picture of our driveway,  this was in January right after I got here, it rained for a week.

feb 24

Today was an easier day, cleaned up the pool and add a chemical and cleaned the extra set of pool water filters. It is time consuming job. Sprayed weeds in the play area and walked around and picked up little garbage the wind had brought in. Tom came and got the little utility trailor and picked up his garbage and then came back here and pick up ours to. It got real windy here mid afternoon but settled right down now. I feel better today and hope for another good sleep tonight. Thanks for your prayers and support, without you this all would not be possible. Ed  half of the front fence line after I cleaned it up.

feb.23

Today started out cool but sunny and warmed up quickly. With that the weeds came up quickly as well. I vacuumed the pool and cleaned up around it. spayed the weeds again and cleaned up garbage cans. tonight I have 2 RVs come in, they are from Quebec. They were as surprised to see B.C. plates here as I was to see Quebec.  I do feel tired tonight and hope to get a good sleep. God bless    volley ball court with the trampoline in the back and a short zip line of to the right.

feb.22

Greetings, Today was another wet start to the day but dried up mid morning.  I did yard cleanup and check the pool chemicals and even got my laundry done. All this rain and vehicles in out of here made a few soft spots in the driveway so I filled them up with gravel from out back. I have one tenter here tonight. Tonight Tom picked me up and he introduced me to pastor Abraham and his wife, very nice couple, he understands english but does not speak it. I enjoyed our time with them and look forward to building a stronger friendship with them. He has a little church very close to here. Hope everyone has a great week.  Thanks for all your prayers. Ed    fire pit in the tenting area

feb. 21

Today was another wet start to the day, I finnished filling the pool and even got the chemicial mix right. One family came in to play in the play area in the afternoon and 1 rv came in  around 6 pm. It was a day to reflect on my time here so far and also a little relaxation.  Ed    picture of the bike or walking track thru the olive trees.

feb.20

Today started out very wet, it rained quite a bit last night and a little this morning. I started filling the swimming pool with water and will finnish it tomorrow. It takes about 12 hours  to fill. I had a family of 5 show up this afternoon to play in play area and 1 rv came in about 5:30. I tidied up the kitchen area today and fill the water resivors aswell. It was a easy day. Wish you all a great weekend. picture of our three palapa's

feb 19

Hard to believe it is 5 week ago that I left Chilliwack. It was another busy day here as Eva was here and she cleaned up the pool from corner to corner. It is ready to be filled. I went uptown with Tom to pick up some pool chemicials and I also did a lot more watering, weed spraying and yard cleanup. I also had  Artemio stop in and ask for some work and he finnished up the south side fence line today. God bless and thanks for all your prayers and support.   pictures of all the rv's in here a couple night back.

feb.18

Today was another very busy day, Eva was here to clean the charter and the kitchen area. I had watering going al day and I cleaned out the pool. still had water in it from all the rain. cut more lawn and cleaned out the garbage cans.There are no campers here tonight so I got to go to church tonight. God bless.  picture of our pool.

feb.17

What a day today has turne out to be. I did not finish the south side fence as my back did not want to cooperate with today, so I cut grass for all morning and part of the afternoon. Got some watering going at the same time. Then I had a group of rv's pull in. 8 in total and then a tenter came in aswell. Kept me busy till dark. Thanks for all your prayers. picture looking from rv spots down the driveway

feb.16

Today Eva came in and washed  and cleaned the inside of the mini bus and the gm van. I was busy cleaning uo the southside fence line. I got just over half of ot done, should finnish it tomorrow. Also did a little spraying in the tenting area. I have no rv's in today. 1 kid came in to play in the playground and ride bike around the track. Thats about all the excitement from ere today. picture of mini after the wash.

feb.15

Today was a nother warm day but not asa hot as yesterday. I got the mini bus all fixed up and ready for duty this morning and did somemore weed spraying.  New ones seem to pop up with this overnight dew. Fixed the light in the tenting area aswell. If anyone is coming down here and would like to do some ocean fishing, I have become friends with Oscar who lives next door here and him and his dad have two fishing charter boats. They speak english as well. Thank you all for your prayers.   picture of our soccer field

feb.14

Happy valintines day, Today I had people drop of kids for the playground and they just picked them up. Must have been because its valintines day  I guess.  Other than that it was a quiet day here and the tempeture was around 26. It is suppose to be like that for the rest of the week. I took it easy today and rested. It will be another full day tomorrow. Have a great evening. picture is of the tenting area

Feb. 13

Hello to you out there were ever you are. Today I had Fernando helping me again for half a day and we got a lot of fence line cleaning done. We stacked a lot of the debre that we cleaned up on the old lawn by the old caretaker;s house. the grass was dead and  was a fire hasard and this afternoon I burned a lot of the clippings, leaves and junk collected around the yard over the last couple weks. There is more to burn yet but that will have to wait for another day. I have three families, 9 people total in the playground today and so far I have rv come in for the night. I wish everyone a great and happy weekend.  Picture of the grassy area by the tenting area

feb. 12

Greetigs from Mexico, today the wather was cooler in the morning but warmed up to about 18 this afernoon. Tomorrow and sunday they forcast mid 20, oh ya. I cleaned up the front fence line today, lots of grass and weeds there. In the later part f the afternoon I did a full inspection on the mini bus as we will be using it a lot in March. Found I will have to do some repairs on it before then. Thats about it from here today. God bless.

feb.11

Hello everyone, It was a beautiful day here today. It is suppose to get even warmer this weekend, like mid 20s. Today I was kept busy with lots of weed spraying. I think I have it almost under control now. I got one rv in right around the time I was going to leave for church, so I missed out on church again this week. Going on sundays is very hard to do if the weather is nice as families come out to play in the play grounds here. They come before lunch and stay till it is almost dark. I hope everyone is having a great week, I am.

greetings

Sorry for not updating earlier, but we had no internet the last few nights when I tried. We now have our own internet stick, I recieved it today. It was a long wait for the stick. Here is a picture of part of the campground, I am up on the roof of the pool house looking back at the office and palopas. It has been an interesting week so far, there have been a few campers thru here and we had more rain and today the sun is out again. I had Fernando, he works next door at the hotel, helping me all day. We got a lot of cleanning up done in the olove tree patch. The weeds just take of like crazy here after a rain. I have never seen anything like it. more weed spraying to do again. I also got our shop somewhat organized this week by building more shelves and filling then. I have been a bit stiff and sore lately, not used to all the fisical work. Not complaining tho.

feb 7

On the sixth I cleaned up long the treed fence line and the flower bed in the circle at back. Raked up more dryed oloves in the camping area. I have a tenter in and he was amazed how nice it was and said he would tell others about this place on thier trip south. It rained a lot in the evening and some during the night. Today the sun is out and the winds are picking up. Drying up some of the puddles left behind from last night. All the fisical work around here sure is not like sitting in the truck all day, I do feel  stiff and sore for the last few days but not commplaining about it as this is good for me. Go ahead laugh, I am. Looking forward to groups coming soon. Praying we don't get to much rain so the roads wash out again. God bless.

Feb. 5

Last couple days have been veryproductive with getting the vehicles ready for when the groups come down. The bus is almost ready, just need to change tires and give it a good bath. I still have Bud camping in the park and I have one more r.v. in for one night tonight. I have also been busy with yard work, the weeds are everywere.  I will have the drawings for the campground ready shortly.

Feb 3

Today was a very busy day. Started of watering trees and grass and I had to leave for a meeting with other ministries here that were meeting with local goverment officials. They are wanting us to partner with them in helping flood victoms that lost everything. Details are still sketchy but we are to meet again on friday. While I was out there I checked up with Elia and Celia and both are doing well. In the afternoon I watered some more and raked up the mess that the olive trees made. There is not much down time right now as I am trying to get as much done before groups show up.

feb.02

Greetings from Mexico, Sunday was a quiet day and I only had 6 poeple in for playground use. I still have Bud in as a rv camper. He has been here from trhe start. Monday was a holiday for school kids and I had 8 poeple in for the playground. I was going to go to church sunday evening at I.D.T. which started at 5:30 but the group using the playground did not leave till 6:15. I will have to try again thur. night. Today Tom and Margarita had the pressure tank changed for the showers and kitchen area. Things are drying up quick and today I have the water running for the trees and grass areas. Ed

update Jan 30

Just  a update for the past three days. The weather has been great, sunny and warm. Things are drying up nicely now. I went to San Diego on thur. and returned home on fri. The roads were almost like always, a few roadside wash outs still but nothing to major. I had Dave staying at camp while I was gone, when I reurned on fri. Dave and I cleanned out our I D T shed and the tools that were under the bus. Today I changed all the locks, so only three keys now instead of a ring full. oh ya. Cleaned the rest of the stuff out from under the bus and did some yard work as well. The weeds are sure taking of after all the rain and now the sun. Talk soon.  Ed

wednesday

Well today wasa another great day, I did some yard work like weed eating and spray for some wild weeds grow like crazy after the rains. I also cleaned up the kitchen area and put the shelfs together for the groceries. The sun was out most of the time but we did have a small shower go thru at mid day.

26th

Today was a busy and very succusfull day. I had Dave Monzano helping me. First I gave Dave a tour of the campground and then I went to work on the bus and wow  the were selling gas, only $ 10.00 to each person but I came thru 3 times today. That helped me out a great deal. Then I worked on the bus and got it running and got them moved back to our campground with the help of Dave. I feel like I really acomplished a lot today. Sounds like the road is to open anytime now and that is awsome news for here. The roads have dried up a lot and water is going down fast.  cheers Ed

Monday update

I just went to the hotel to use thier internet so  I could update everyone. I applied for an internet stick today but it could be this weekend before I get it. With all the rain we had it made it difficult to do to much here, I did have a full day on yard cleanup after the rain quit. Sunday I had three families show up (16) people in all for the play ground, That was exciting. Today I worked on getting the mini bus running and it is, but still have issues with the big bus.  I will be working on getting it going again tomorrow. Have a great week. p.s. Please pray for calm to settle in the valley here.

my first day

Well my first day did not work out as planned, Tom and Magarita had to leave suddenly this morning and the care taker does not speak english. Rob and Brenda and Chris did not make it to San Quintin iether do to bad weather. Rob with try again tomorrow. It is not rainning here yet but they say it is coming.  Hopefully  tomorrow will be a better day.

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