We've moved

I know it's been a while since I've posted. We've been busy and our internet connection isn't real great here at the house. Hopefully in time we'll improve that. Yes, we are moved into our house. Thanks for your prayers and encouragement. We moved in Tuesday, July 10th but have been working since than on never ending projects! We still have a small list of things that will be ongoing for a while. Here are some pictures around the day we moved in a several days following. We're so thankful for the help of several missionary guys here, we couldn't have done it without them.

Pete and Benjamin lifting some of our solar panels into place. It's hard to see but they were racing to beat the clock as there was a big thunderstorm brewing in the background.

Here are some of our solar panels. We have two different sets. These here are 55 watt panels and we have 10 of these. We also have 4 larger panels which are 105 watt panels, I believe. Beware, some of my statistics could be slightly wrong!:) The guys are getting ready to hoist these onto the roof. They used the truck as a 'ladder.'

Pete at the breaker box. Our inverter is also here, it inverts the 12 volt solar electricity to 110 volts and allows us to use our American appliances and charge our computer etc. Most of you probably know this stuff, just putting it out there for whatever.

Our friend Benjamin working on our breaker box thing. Here's where all the wires from the house come into and our charge controller for the solar panels etc. The batteries sit below it. Just to the right is our freezer! Yah! We have a freezer. It's so awesome to have room to freeze stuff and to have cold things.

Pete is wiring in the switch for a light in our bathroom. Since the walls are already in place we had to drill holes in the ceiling and run the wires for switches and outlets down the walls. Afterwards we covered the wires with a nice plastic white thing called conduit. I'll try to send a picture of that later.

A work in progress. It's a lot of work to wire your house and basically set up your own source of power. Here's some pictures of that process. Those are our batteries that we use to store our power in. We currently have 4 but are probably going to add one or two more.