 Here we are back in Bluefields again. It sure feels good to be back home again. We enjoyed the trip, but we are a bit travel weary. We drove over 2000 miles on top of the flying.
Jason is posted in Huntsville, AL, which is almost in Tennessee, so it was a two day drive back to Miami. Then we flew to Managua and missed our flight to Bluefields, so we had to stay overnight, then get up at 4:30 am to fly to Bluefields the next morning.
 The guys have made good progress in our absence. They should have the fence done by the middle of next week and then they can get back to working inside the house.
We still do not have electric and water hookups but we have people working on that.
Our foreman, Javier, is keeping the guys well organized in teams working on different parts of the fence. Here we see David and Alfred working on setting blocks.
 Israel is putting the rebar cages together. Chico is doing all the welding and Javier and Marvin are building the forms for the columns.
Yesterday, when we got back, Javier promptly put me (Tim) back to work cutting all the steel upright parts for the fence.
You have heard of the impending food crisis, with the price of basic grains rising dramatically over the past year. We have seen the price of rice rise over 50% in the past four months here in Nicaragua.
 The good news is that Nicaragua has enough arable land to feed virtually all of Central America. At one point, during the Somoza regime, Nicaragua was a major food exporter. The bad news is that two civil wars back-to-back and then Hurricane Joan in 1988 devastated the agriculture industry.
On the Atlantic Coast where we live, there are thousands of acres of land in the communities that are very well watered and are very prime farm land, but they are unused. The key is to encourage and enable the people to plant.
One of the pastors in the area has purchased a rice mill and has land in the communities. Please pray that the church can make a difference in this situation. |
