our lovely belizean "ride" 1987 Isuzu Trooper with 157,000 miles. Since we got this little jewel it has either been in the shop or needed to be in the shop. Currently, I think that the only thing that it needs is a new fuel pump - but it's early in the day and that could all change. By local standards it is a pretty nice vehicle and even though it is gasoline powered ($8.60 BZ per gallon) it is a very practical rig.  

just another Belizean sunset - this is an amazingly beautiful place 

one nearly completed project is the well house - for various reasons the submersible pump that we originally put in the well was stolen, so we decided to secure its replacemant and create a safe storage building for the property. the view from the "crows nest" is pretty cool 

the gang at work - workers in Belize get paid between $25 - $50 Belize dollars per day ($12..50 - $25.00 US dollars) and they are VERY HAPPY to have a job / it breaks my heart to think about how hard they all have to work to just survive - but I didn't break it and I can't fix it, so I work at paying on the upper end of the local scale and trying to otherwise just be a positive part of their lives

Mr Pop's son, Manuel - every job needs a "grunt" and Manuel is it. A very hard working quiet young man with a very nice disposition 

Francisco's son, "Hondo" (Alejandro), a very nice young man that I think I could very easily become friends with 

Mr Pop, Francisco's brother-in-law, working on the "storm-shelter" portion of our project 

Francisco - the project superintendant of the Hansen Family project - a really nice man who I hope to start a Bible Study with very soon 

mystery nest ( about the size of a baseball ) so far all we know about the parents is that they are small (duh =), hava a long slender tai, and are very quick 

Senida is a year and a half younger than Adelita and is a real dandy - she is as outgoing as Adelita is quiet =) 

Adelita Ack - she is in her final year of school, and is a VERY quiet young woman until you get to knkow her =) 

Andrea Ack - her and Kathy have a presentation in this weeks Theocratic Ministry School

Kristy Ack enjoying a few plums 

Some friends (the Ack family) came to visit - like the spring birds the Ack family is growing too. Teresita (far left) is expecting - Her and Calistro (rear in the blue shirt) presently have six daughters and one son.  

Cleo just plain LOVES the farm - there are so many smells and noises and things that make the grass move 

This is a Common Tody Flycatcher 

It's nesting time and there are many birds busy with the business of family building. This is a Yellow-bellied Elaenia 

this morning's visitor 

This mornings visitor...........=)

Last night it was a search party from the neighborhood battalion of army ants (they left after about 1/2 hour) - and this morning it was a small terantula on the inside of the screen door - ..........................what a place!

The army ants ate every bug in sight and the terantuala is apparently harmless unless provoked (and I had no interest in provoking it, although I did encourage it to move to the other side of the screen)

This site has some really interesting info on the terantula:

http://www.desertusa.com/july96/du_taran.html

There was an article in the 2003 (June 8) Awake! Magazine that talked about army ants.

Sonny takes time out for a little R&R, entertaining himself with an old rusty bicycle wheel, he'll be back on the hunt soon though, "Sonny loves his belly" 

rather than using the "intra-tree" approach, Rosa prefers the "ground-based" technique for dislodging the small green morsels 

Rosa "tip-toeing through the tulips" on her way to more "fertile hunting grounds". In the background Sonny aka "Pooh Bear" awaits more manna from heaven 

Selly enjoying the fruits of her labors 

Lurdez resting up after a round of plum-picking 

Glenford on a recon mission 

Rosa and Lucy team up to conquer one of the seven May Plum trees at the farm - sorry for the fuzziness