Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

Sorry about not  posting last week but I am pretty certain no one wanted to hear the details of my stomach problems or how many times I had to go to the bathroom all week.  I did get some amazing sleep in:  at least two full days I barely crawled out of bed.  Fortunately all this started while I was still in town so I stayed in town where my bed was roughly 10 feet from the toilet instead of all the way across the site. I did head back out to the site this week despite not being over the effects.  But those that know me also know I typically will work myself out of an illness if it lasts too long which this one was.  It seemed to work as things started getting better on Thursday and now I feel good to go. The bad part is we are currently in the middle of a tight time schedule project with a hard end date.  We are repairing the pre-school and redoing the playground area and school starts back on July 13th.  I was expecting to have some small de...

My favorite Sunset photo of week. It is unfortunate but I have to say my second visit to the hospital in a month is not a record.  I wish it was but let's be honest I led a life that leads to hospital visits.  Never thought I would be doing it in the mission field though.  My apologies up front if this one rambles or has a lot of errors, they gave me some good pain meds last night to make me sleep. For those that don't do Facebook, I had some really good news Tuesday-my rib went back into place.  I wrapped it up and was feeling good for the first time in two weeks.  Normally you don't do anything to risk popping one back out for a week after you get it back in.  Unfortunately, a meeting with contractors who had done some repair work on the site last year had been set up by the USA board.  Since I was going to have to explain the problems with the work they had done, I was headed out again.  Wednesday afternoon, after spending a day looking fo...