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| Steve and a couple friends enjoying a few minutes of singing... |
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| Left to right; Donny, Stevie, Johnny, and Mikey. Or if you prefer; Donavon Hostetler, Steve, Jonathan Newswanger, and Michael Martin. |
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| Claudsie's first lollipop!!!! Just a few shots, his expressions are pretty cute... "Hmm, this ok...." |
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| "Why didn't anyone tell me about these before???" |
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| "Oh yeah, yummy!!!!!" |
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| We were honored to participate in the wedding of Mis Louda, one of our Haitian nurses. It's typical of Haitian weddings to have a "Marenn and Parren", sort of like a godfather and mother... We were a little surprised when she asked us to fill that role (along with a Haitian couple), but we really enjoyed it!!! Here's the couple finishing their preparations before heading to the wedding.... |
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| At the wedding... We sat across from them... |
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| Shana, the other Marenn, and the bride... Mis Louda- or rather Madam Denny as she is now- is about 32... |
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| The pastry confection is my wife's creation, and the cake was created by Anita, but the rest of the food is authentic Haitian....AND delicious, as always!!! (Have I mentioned that we LOVE Haitian food???) |
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| Parenn and Marenn... |
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| We were really excited to get our solar panels up- finally!!! |
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| Here's Darwin, helping with painting just before we placed the panels up. They're about 18 feet up in the air, and HOPEFULLY we put enough cement in the base to keep it there in a hurricane... I estimated there's about 3 thousand pounds down there, so....? BTW... Nice shades, Darwin... (Sorry, couldn't resist...) |
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| The finished product. We've already noticed a significant decrease in time that we need to run our generator, so that's a blessing!!! Generally when the ladies run the wringer washer, we would need to start the generator to have enough power. Now, during the day with the sun shining bright, they can do laundry to their hearts content and the solar panels more than compensate for the energy being used... |
