Virtual Tour of My House

We'll begin the tour outside. Here is the gate and the path leading to our house. The picture is taken from outside our kitchen door. Across from the kitchen door are the goat pens and the turtle pond.









At the end of the house opposite the gate (and on the far side of the garage) is the basketball hoop and the water tank. It is important to have a tank so that we do not totally run out of water during the many times when their is no water coming through the pipes. The tank will last us a couple of days if we're careful, but we've still had quite a few days where we had no water at all except for what was carried in by the workers. On top of the roof is the hot water tank. Each day we refill it and the sun heats the water for the next morning. It works very well when the sun is out, but when the day is rainy and cold we only get luke-warm water at best.


Now lets go in and take a look at the kitchen.







At the moment we have two refridgerators (not counting the one out on the porch). This is because the original one (on the right) was too small. The Thomases gave us there old one (on the left) but when we plugged it in it no longer worked, even though it had been functional 24 hours before when they removed it from their house. So after all our meat and cheese was spoiled, we went back to using the small one. We hope to get the larger one fixed or out of our kitchen, but after two months we still haven't made progress on it. There have been too many other things to fix. You might also notice our small stove. We did have a bigger one with a pilot light, but this ate up so much propane that we sold it and received this one from the Thomases when they bought a new one. We are hoping that the smaller stove will influence how much food our cook makes for us. She has only been making us two meals a week, but even after eating it for seven days and feeding much of it to our night gaurds, we still don't always get it all eaten. Across from the stove is the sink, and kitchen window.








Leaving the Kitchen through this door we enter the dining room and then the living room.










We just got the chairs and couch back from somone at World Vision who had been borrowing them. I twisted my ankle moving the couch, but it is fine now. The cushions on the couch and chairs are only foam, so we were glad when we found a couple of feather pillows in one of the closets; them make it much more comfortable to sit for more than a few minutes. The book shelves behind the couch contain the many books that have been left here by former occupants and visitors. When we first arrived they were all stored out in the garage, very dusty and not inviting at all. I cleaned them up, discovered quite a few doubles and somewhat complete series and arranged them so that we might actually read them and let others borrow them. Also behind the couch is our "catch all" table. Right now it has our broken alternator box, (that's what happens when you plug too many things in, I guess) one of Bethany's craft projects, a VCR we borrowed and other miscellanous items.
Leaving the living room behind we enter the hallway.










The first door on the left leads back to the kitchen and the first door on the right is Bethany's room. You'll notice the mosquito netting that we're all glad to use at night and the air holes in the top of the wall that often let in gecos. Next, on the left, is the small bathroom. It is hard to shut the door unless your stradling the toilet, but other than that it works pretty well.





Continuing down the hall, the third door on the left leads to the large bathroom. We have lots of cupboard space, but half of it is too high to reach without a chair. You might notice that the curtain doesn't quite fit the window. This is because when we gave our seam- stress measurements for it she misunderstood them and made the length the width and vice versa. Next to the toilet you might notice some water on the floor. This is because our sewer line seems to be clogged and we haven't got if fixed yet. It adds an interesting aroma to the bathroom, but we have hopes that it will be fixed before too long.
Directly across the hallway is my bedroom. The other girls let me have the room with the double bed and the halogen light. It's a little bigger than the other two rooms, and the light is nice when the electricity is working. I haven't had the chance to decorate it much yet except to hang some of my Christmas presents in the window and on the doors of my closet.





The last room on the left is Michelle's room. It's small, but she's managed to fit everything she needs into it.










At the end of the hallway is the garage. We have an extra bed and matress set up in it for possible guests. However, Debbie needed extra room to dry Moringa leaves, so right now the beds and the garage table are full of leaves. Our garage is a good place for them, because if they are dried in direct sunlight they lose much of their nutritional
value.



At the back of the garage is a little storage room. Right now it's filled with Brad and Michelle's trunks which number 10 in all. They each brought three themselves and then had Adam and Chelsea bring some more when they came for Christmas. Talk about getting lots of presents.