Pluggin

We're just plugging away here. Doing life in Haiti.

Tina made tortillas last night - I mean made here own tortillas. They were great! That was our first Mexican like meal here.

Lou is getting smarter, but he still has no interest in telling us he has to go potty. If we ask him, he'll sign "potty" or shake his head no, but he won't tell us when he has to go. We are still struggling with having him chew his food. He'll take big bites, not chew and then choke on it. We'll tell him to chew when he puts food in his mouth and then he just sits there and gives us blank stares. He waits until 5-10 minutes go by or we just get distracted and then he'll swallow it. We'll take the food away and tell him he has to chew. The hard part about this is that sometimes he seems so smart and that he gets it - then we have one day where he is not firing on all cylinders (car talk).

Carter has been ahead on schoolwork and Kayla has been behind, so Carter has had a bit more free time and has been spending it down in the shop with me. He can't always be doing what I am doing so I have him playing with a few trashed lawnmowers. I think that Kayla is almost all caught up now.

We got a few more boxes from customs. I got parts for the four-wheeler that I ordered from eBay and we also got coffee creamers for Tina sent by my parents in August (I think it was August) - Tina thanks you guys so much Mom and Dad! We are looking forward to receiving ALL of our stuff. Hopefully things will start to move a little bit faster now.

We had a pretty poor night's sleep last night because there were cats outside. They were meowing almost all night - it is really frustrating. I am so tired physically every day that a really do need a good night's sleep.

Some pictures of:

A caterpillar


I ran into this guy when I was test driving a motorcycle that I was working on. He was struggling with six cattle - trying to get them down the road and stop them from eating on the side of the road.


Boring car stuff...

I have been working on replacing the bushings on the upper control/a-arm of the ranger. The driver's side was so bad that it ruined the control arm and we'll have to replace the whole thing.

The canter differential has been holding fluid better after replacing it with the used unit. It seems to be leaking out the back where there are no parts to remove/replace. I may put a few seams of weld on it just to seal it up because I cannot pinpoint where it's coming from. I took apart the other two differentials and found the parts we need to replace. We'll most likely end up replacing the parts and either hanging on to both of them or selling one perhaps.

The two pathfinders have been the worst in the fleet in terms of consistently having issues. I had to weld a large hole in the exhaust, fix the wiper, tighten the belts, and when I get the parts, I'll replace the spark plugs. I adjusted the timing on it as well.

I haven't worked on the cage of the landcruiser in a while because we are waiting for more metal to come in. I also fixed the blue Isuzu cage a little and am waiting on metal for that as well.

I don't think that I'll run out of things to do in the shop.