Watch out for falling objects

This is our water stand, Normally there is a 1000 liter holding tank on top. The black barrel is our hot water heater. We pump our water from ground level up to the holding tank on top. From there it's piped into our house.

You might be wondering where our holding tank is in these pictures.

A couple weeks ago I was extremely startled by a loud crash. I didn't know what it was but it got my heart racing. I was inside and ran out with Eli, around the corner and saw that the holding tank had crashed to the ground. I didn't know where Aidan was at the moment so I started frantically calling for him. Thank God he was on the front porch out of harms way. No one got hurt. Within minutes our yard was filled with people who had heard the crash. You are able to see the damage to our laundry shed and yard. I'm so glad it didn't come down on the roof.

At the time of the fall the tank was nearly full so there was probably 700 liters of water in it. Here it is in two pieces. There's a big rip in the plastic and the metal cage landed a distance away from it.

Here's the cage. Normally the tank is elevated on top of the water tower so that it's above the hot water heater. When we moved in Pete made a new stand but apparently it wasn't strong enough for the weight of the water and it broke. The following day after the tank fell a couple guys made a new sturdier stand out of 4x4's. I haven't downloaded my pictures of the new stand yet. We're so thankful that no one was hurt.

Happy Grandparents Day

Nannie and Poppa, Grammie and Grandpa - Hope you have a wonderful day and know that you are loved very much.

Aidan and Eli enjoying the hammock.

A rope swing which gets a lot of use, our house is in the background with our little patch of grass.

Aidan's first day of school last week. He's doing very well. This is our play/school room which we are enjoying very much.

If we could we'd bring you some flowers today. Hope you enjoy these from our flower bed.

Goats, babies and rain water

Here's Aidan checking out a baby goat. The Africans always get nervous when the kids get too close to the animals. These babies were so cute.

Here's another goat they were chasing.

Some goats playing in the nice green grass.

The kids don't look to happy about the picture. Eli wanted to stay at this place and visit and Aidan was begging to go home. Sometimes they really enjoy the village other times not so much.

This is from one of our village visits. This baby was very content to just sit with me.

This is the gutter coming from our house into our basin - water holding tank. Right now all the water that we use is rain water that we collect from the roof. During dry season there is a well that we pump water from. Stay tuned because there is more interesting info to come about our water holding tank. I hope to blog about it soon.

Rainy Night

We seem to be making a switch in rainy season from lots of gentler rain during the days to more hard rains at night. Somtimes though it wakes me up and I can't get back to sleep for hours. So, logically I think of things to do - like update the blog. I've been trying to do this for several days and can't get any pictures to upload our connection is the same as always. I'm open for any suggestions.