Hump Day

It's Wednesday evening and the majority of the group has gone off about 6 miles away to try and find the Rosebud buffalo herd and to see the big sky sunset.  I've gotten so many pics I don't know how I'll get them all on here!

First, a foodie update.  Night #1 was pizza, due to our late arrival and the orientation that we had to attend.  The next night was burgers and dogs on the grill, pasta salad, garden salad and Jed's baked beans.  Yum!  Tonight was slow-cooker beef stew with garden salad and Jed's corn souffle.  The stew and the souffle were superb.  Thanks John and Jed!!

Let's see, work sites.  One is done, a couple are finishing up and we are hoping to get another couple of jobs.  One thing we've been doing is working on the local, very tiny, Episcople church.  Lots of painting and scraping.  John T is entertaining new Indian names after cutting through a home's water line with a sawzall, and having to wait hours for help so that they could turn the water back on for those folks. At celebrations this evening, Dave A celebrated how John built a fountain for a family!

The top picture is Dolores Kills In Water, a tribal elder.  She came with Lakota artifacts and talked to us about the role of Lakota women, which was fairly intense.  The middle picture is of weapons (no part of any animal killed was wasted as you can see from the bones) and the bottom is of beaded moccasins.  She had a great sense of humor and was enjoyed very much.

Here's Anna with Emmett as they were sightseeing on the way in.

One of the jobs that was worked on for the first 2 days was to dig a ditch for a sewer pipe.  100 feet long and 4 feet deep.  Eileen Hadley shows how it's done!

When is a door not a door?  When it's ajar!

Here are Dave C and one of our supervisors, Leon, preparing to install a door.

And, just for fun, here's a picture of a South Dakota hat rack!

 

A couple of more pics before I retire for the evening.  Here, Heidi  shows us that she has mad skills with a skill saw!

Here is a picture of Lynette with a little Lakota boy, Miah.  It's too bad that he is so shy!

  

And lastly for tonight, a special picture for Suzanne Harlow.  Here are Doris-Ann, Lynette, Liz, and Gloria are picking our books and seashells to take to some of the children in homes they have been working in, including 4-year-ol Miah, above.  There is a shelf of free books in the soup kitchen so whatever books we don't hand out will be donated there to reach even more children.  Thank you Suzanne, we are thinking of you!!!

And one last note that I just remembered.  Gary has made it home safely and Nancy has come through her surgery from earlier today just fine!  Praise God!  We hope to have them both, good and healthy, on the next trip.

Good night everyone!