8 new bicycles in the middle was recently donated by a friend in Anaheim Cali. The 5 older bikes on the left and the group to the left with the sad face are still walking to school.

Pastor Tuy, friends and family from Anaheim Cali. Stopped by for the day. We had a really great time with them. It was also nice to have a connection from our Anaheim friends make their first visit.

Around the 18th of August our pond was very low, almost 4 feet. By early September it is near over flowing again. It is nice when to have more water than you know what to do with.

During the this summer we had hoped to get the children off the property a little more. We where trying to make connections with other NGO’s that offer training. We have one NGO who trains people better home making skills and one NGO that teaches better farming skills.
But it did not work out this year. We will try again next year.

We did however get the children to a ma who lives fairly close to us. We heard about him on the Christan radio. He has taken all the NGO advice he can and has put it into practice. I found him him to be a very impressive man.
So we made arrangements for our children to go and learn for part of the day.

They learned how to raise earth worms. I had looked on line before how to do it and it was a major project with materials and things, mainly wood which is harder for us to get or use.
Besides the worms ability to repair our soil they will feed all of our animals from the fish to the pigs and everything in between. Pretty soon we will have high protein diets for every thing.
Mostly our big kids went to this class, girls to.

Shortly after our kids made their own pit to start farming earth worms. We will start pretty small and if every thing works out we will enlarge it to actually produce enough worms to use for the animals and the property.

He also showed us how to micro farm a smaller bread of catfish. The children are very excited about this. They eat the worms and termites. The net is to keep them from walking away, when it rains this type of catfish crawls away.

A gardener looks on as the teacher is going to put the worms on the dinner plate.

He also had some larger catfish like ours.

Plus he had 2 ponds for Talapia.

Then he showed us his gas tank. This tank located next to the bathroom takes the animal waste and collects the gases from it and it is used for lighting and cooking. He has had his tank for 3 years and it feeds gas to 3 houses with about 15 people.

Gas lantern

This is the area where the left over waste is collected and reused for the gardening.
I did not think it smelled bad I guess because the stink was already burnt off.

Te-a and Tee looking after their litters. We had like 81 piglet this year, the bad weather made it a bit challenging to keep them healthy but we made it. The next litters should be born in better part of the year. We also have an appointment to visit a real pig farm where the kids will get real information and we will see how to do things better so next year we will hopefully deal with less illness.

Though our pond was pretty low we got some plants growing in there. Which was great for our echo system. We have and incredible amount of life in there that the children like to eat. We only planted the large cat fish everything else came from some where else maybe dropped off a birds foot or something.

We also have a lot of these really colorful frogs living in the pond.

Six and a half pounds now. During the dry season we empty the pond and its fish to dig out any mud that has fallen in. So we put the largest fish in mother in-laws pond once and a while they are caught and we put them back in our pond. We think we will just keep letting these grow.

We had a boat building contest.
Judged on looks and performance.

What I was most surprised was by the amount of creativity there was and some real design.
Most of them had and old shoe as the body but they added sails and paddles and all kinds of things they thought would work.
Vuthy looked and worked well.

Chow got second for looks but quickly sank. The wholes in the bottom and not having any sides made it more of a submarine.

Channee ad Melor a group effort paid off. They got third for beauty but number 1 for performance. The made a rubber band propeller and a sail that worked great.

I was looking at windmills to use here awhile ago. The only ones I could find we really expensive. Then shortly after I made an information request on face book. Ream saw one on the way home. Every time we drive by it now it is umping water. What is great is that it is drawing a large crowd. Hopefully this means some change in the area.

Back in the trees. I had the though that this would make a better picture. How ever our children look so small compared to the building. I was hoping they would line the balconys.
I also I got extreemly sick. The wind was so bad I almost got sick up there and I had a head ache for 3 days.

It does give some of you a better perspective of how large the building is. This is about 30 of our children out there boys on top and girls on bottom.

We did also make it to the Zoo again but my memory card dumped so no picture.
My sister took some so when we get her copies I will post them.

Thanks to though who supported our Summer activies this year. I am sure the sponsors will hear about it in their next letters.