Update

The house is almost finished! Only a couple more days of "finishings". However, the carpenter and I have different definitions of "finishings". He doesn't notice when paint isn't in a straight line, when there is brown paint from baseboards on the cream walls or when the door handles and hinges are covered in paint. So it gets quite interesting. He wants me to pay more for the "finishings" but I insist this is part of building a brand new house. Should a new house also come with faucets and toilets that don't leak?? Almost finished..!

As we finish the house, our next project has begun. We have started construction of the chicken house, cow shed and sheep house.  Only 6 months behind my original estimate but as they say here "slowly by slowly".

The rain and foggy weather has come. This is good for the shamba/garden but not for construction. Our driveway is impassable again meaning we can't get the remaining materials for the animal houses to our house. So we wait. We might wait a month or two. Usually the month of July is the cold (in the 50's), wet and foggy (visibility about 100feet) month. However, July has come early. Who would think that in Kenya, on the equator it could be so cold? I could see my breath in the house yesterday. And interestingly, when it's foggy I don't have internet access....

Despite the challenges, things are going well. Two German volunteers stayed with us at the house for about four days. They have been in Kenya volunteering on multiple projects including St. Gerald. We had a great time and made a lot of European/American food which Mama Mwangi enjoyed! Also, the schools have a four day midterm break coming up and some of the students will be staying at our house. We don't have enough furniture/beds for all of them yet so we will only have a few. But the different schools are on varing schedules so we will have students with us over two different weekends. Then in August is the long one month break and we will have many more students staying with us then. I'm really looking forward to having the kids with us!

I promise to post more pictures soon!