Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Week 3

Well, it seems the hot weather is here to stay (up to 30 degrees in this week's forecast), meaning...it's tree-planting time! We had a little taste of that last week, along with a couple of other projects that kept us very busy, like completing the river irrigation system, building a fence and painting the cabin. This week we have 16000 trees to plant. Yesterday we went to Regina to pick up a new team member, Kevin. While we were there we visited a little Somali store and picked up some spices, ugali flour and ndengu. They also had spiced coffee.  After a visit to Costco, we came back to Weyburn.

Water and plumbing have been a bit of a challenge this past week, with us running out of water one day and having the basement flood a few days. I hope we are finally able to get that under control soon. Our water has to be trucked in from the municipal supply in Weyburn, and is stored in 3 big storage tanks in the basement. With now 5 interns using it, it stands to reason that a fairly regular replenishment run needs to be established, coz water is important.



Hooking up the main connection pipes for the irrigation system.

Drilling holes for the fence posts

Tamping the posts in!


I'm handy with a hammer and nails!

Painting the cabin. Now with this experience under my belt,
I think I will paint my room purple.


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