Bird, Lookout, Louey, Sensor Stolen

Yesterday three Haitian guys stopped by here at the only zoo in Haiti and wanted to sell a bird (eagle? Becky, any help here?) that they found this morning. It was young and very hungry - it could barely balance and it could not hold its wings up very high. We tried to feed it some raw chicken by shoving it down its mouth which worked, but it seemed so tired and near death. Kyrk didn't think that we would be able to feed it a diet of rats often enough and so we didn't buy it from them.





Sunday afternoon we went out to lunch at a little hole in the wall that had great food. We then went to a look out that was close by and took this picture - there was an incredible view of Port-au-Prince.


Louey

We continue to lub-dub along. Louey is doing great and is now signing the words: please, thank you, more, yes, no, cookie, banana, potty

Sensor Stolen

Last night we got our outdoor wireless temperature sensor stole from INSIDE our window. It was located between the screen and window and someone felt that it was their right to pry the screen open and take it. We tried to do a little sluthing last night by walking around with the main unit until it found a reading, but I am afraid that we didn't wait long enough in one place for it to send a reading (we have to wait for 15 min for it to update). I have a few places that I think it might be and, thus, I will hide the main unit to see if it picks up a reading.

I think that our MN missionary friends (the Livesay's) may have taken it because they once threatened us - the weather is so much nicer up here on the mountain! :-) At least now they don't have to read about our nice cool weather (oh, by the way, we have very few mosquitoes here)! Speaking of cool weather, here is the temperature readings for the last few weeks (this may be the last time you read this):

Max temp - 76.4
Min temp - 63.5
Max humidity - 91
Min humidity - 67

Boring car stuff...

On Saturday one of the generators got a hole in the oil line. With three of the four gallons of oil sprayed on the floor, the low oil indicator shut the engine off. We've been running the other one now until we get the new hose.


Kyrk and I worked on taking the transmission apart for the whole morning yesterday. It's been a little difficult to figure out how to take it apart because we don't have a manual for it. We got it apart enough to see that the synchronizer for the first gear is real bad and second gear is also worn. Now we have to get gears off the other end to get to the synchronizer. That will and has been the hard part because we don't have the right tools to do this. We may end up bringing it to the dealer, however, as with a lot of larger parts of cars you sometimes have to buy the whole units because they don't have the tools or need to sell the individual parts - we may have to buy a whole new transmission.


There is another truck that is owned by Mountain Made (the bakery and shop here at the Mission) that needs at least a new clutch, so I'll be taking that transmission out as well. It also needs new front wheel bearings, ball joints, CV boot and one axle/halfshaft. My garage is full - it runeth over. I have plenty of other vehicles that need work, too.

I bought a part from eBay for a lawnmower and it arrived last week. I worked on getting that together yesterday (I had to modify it a bit to get it to work). I fixed a workers electric stove last week as well. The broken items just keep on coming.