Neireis's House Project...

This is Neireis's house. Some generous folks in the States gave money
to have it rebuilt. So we're getting ready to begin that process. You
can't see really well here, but all the walls fell out during last years
earthquake. So we'll be putting in new stone/concrete walls, and
putting on a new roof. All this to the tune of about $600, U.S. price.
And there's a lot more houses like this around here. It's not
pleasant to think about what it would be like to go through
a heavy rainstorm in a house like this- let alone a cyclone or
hurricane!!!

The family has been sleeping in this tent for over a year. It's not exactly
waterproof anymore.

Their Kitchen.... Called a "cuisine" in Creole/ French.

Solar panel project...

We were really excited to get our solar panels up- finally!!!

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...)

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...