House Renovations Continue

Here are some updated photos or our progress. We're getting close to moving in. Our to do list still includes, finishing wiring, hooking up solar panels and batteries, hooking up our pump, filling water beds, maybe fixing our toilet or just bucket flushing for a while, bathroom ceiling. All that to say we hope to move in a day or two. There will still be list of things to do for a while. Those of you who have done renovations know what that's all about. Enjoy the pictures .

Ok, here's a picture of the finished paint job. The walls were going to be light tan. Well there are no paint mixing machines here. After our painter mixed all the paint by hand taking at least 30 min. or more we said it was good. In different lights it looks, light green, cream or tan.

Here's all the paint. They painted the ceiling a flat white paint. The walls get done with an oil based paint. A trick they use here is to 'water down' the oil paint with gasoline, notice the yellow jug with the red lid?' It makes the paint go further. The guys asked for some gas and Pete brought a couple liters, the painter said no that he wanted about 25 liters! A couple times when I visited the house during painting the fumes were so bad I got a headache. I don't know how they worked in there.

Here's one of our painters. They took 7 days to paint our ceiling and walls. They did quite a bit of patch work on the walls. Everything is cement here, so they were fixing holes and cracks as well as filling in the small space between the ceiling and walls. We were very anxious while they were working but they did a fabulous job. Not your average African paint job.

These ladies work at our guesthouse here in Hamdallaye. After work one day one of them asked if I had a camera to take a picture. I thought it was a little strange but when I got the camera they climbed on a co-workers 3 wheeler and posed for a picture, complete with revving noised! The lady in the blue has given me an African name, they have a hard time pronouncing Faith, so now I'm Mariama Camara.

Ok, so this is not your ordinary North American sign. Basically it says, "It's illegal to pee or litter here." It's strange since those two things happen everywhere! Hope it makes you smile.

Pete and Salu, a believer here in Hamdallaye preparing to work on the ceiling.

Norm and Pete are working on the ceiling. They did a great job.

Here are Norm and Debra Copeland. They helped us out a couple weeks ago while they were visiting Guinea. Thanks so much guys.