Friday, Day 11...finished!

Today Bill went up and finished the back door and I stayed home and organized our food. I ran to the store to get some fresh veggies and bread and also some stamps.

This is the food and supplies that have been given to us...we are most grateful and appreciative to all those who gave to us...what a blessing each one of you are!

This is more food and supplies...

Here is the man door!

And the ladies door!
Which do you like best?


Picture taken from the top of the hill...if the flag doesn't catch your eye than the pink door will!

I thought you might want to see our washrooms for the next 4 weeks...We have to bucket flush them!

And our sink!

We have from midnight tonight til 5:00 p.m. tomorrow to have all of our stuff move in. Maybe I'll have time to post some pics tomorrow...we'll see!

Thursday, Day 10 of building...one more to go!

Well Bill made it home safe and sound. His hike went really well and his back is fine. Thank you all for your prayers for him...God is Good! Thought you would like to see some pics of his hike...

The first day after hiking 8 km they had a 100 ft. vertical drop to get to the campsite.

This is where they set up their tents.

This is where they hung their garbage and food so the bears wouldn't get into it...yes, I said bears!

Enjoying a sunset!

Bill along the way!

There were lots of caves and places to explore.




Here is a pic of the whole group...hangin' out! Notice the overhang!

Here they all are at the end of the Bruce Trail at Tobermory {40+km}

Back to building...
Here is the finished front door. {From the inside} Bill needed do a bit of fixin'.
Check out his door handle!


Here he is starting on the back door. He had a little help from Skylar and Autumn.

Garrett and his chair for his desk!

A couple of cool critters that visited us today!

Tomorrow...finish back door and start on lights! We need to collect a bunch of fire wood, it's suppose to start raining tomorrow and keep up til next Wednesday. Tomorrow is the last day in our apartment, Saturday we will spend a few hours moving our food, clothes, and beds {air mattress'} up to our new home in the bush!
Our Jungle Camp home is a 1/2 mile from our apartment, one way! and we have been hiking back and forth a couple times a day for 2 weeks, with backpacks. Saturday we will hike all of our belongings up...by foot! No driving...nothing with wheels. Bill should be warmed up after his hike three days earlier.
Our Jungle Camp home has been made with used poles, duct tape, bailer twine, staples, plastic, shovels, pick ax, hand drill, bow and hand saw, 4 nails {used for the table} and one really cool machete! {Thanks Vern and Holly!}

Wednesday, Day 9 of building!

Today Jake finished his chair...it is so comfy and I've already requested another one! Way to go Jake!

After the chair was finished we had lunch, then realized that we didn't have a can opener: so we used some of Bill's tools to poke a hole in the top of the can and then peeled open the top.

Our dragonfly was back on top of flowers during lunch...I guess he decided to be our Jungle Camp Mascot! {Notice the mirror hanging...I hung that up today}



I walked around with our neighbor boys...Mark and Emma's adorable boys! Joe, Sam and Mike!
These pictures were taken from Mike's eye level.




The boys started a desk in their room...after they had a stick fight! Tomorrow I'll post the finished product.


I started a door...this isn't the finished product either you'll have to wait and see it tomorrow.

Tuesday, Day 8 of building!

When we woke up to the pouring rain...we had a thought!

We went and got our breakfast at Tim Horton's and then we got started.

Emma, our fun neighbor was as crazy as us and was out there working too. She's awesome!

Today we decided that we would accomplish one thing...and Garrett was the man for the job.

He made me a beautiful shelf for our canned food and some supplies. Our car battery will sit on the top shelf and will power our house for the month. Bill will hook our lights up to it and we will charge it throughout the month with a solar panel.

He did a great job and when he finished building it I put cardboard down on the shelves and then covered them with material. His dad will be so proud.

Deanna and her family came out and brought lunch for us and Emma and her boy Joe came too.
It was fun to sit around the table in our "new" home and eat! Fred {Deanna's husband} was able to help Emma get some plastic up on their home and the family also helped some other ladies who's husbands are on the hike...what a nice family, they all have such a servants heart!
This is their youngest of four...he's a cutie!

My friend the dragonfly was back today...I knew he liked me!


Jake was on fire duty again, our goal is to have an oven that will get up to 350-400 and maintain it. Jake is able to get it up there and then he let's it cool to about 200, it helps dry the stove slowly. He also started building a chair...he thought he would get that finished tomorrow.

It was a rainy day that went by really fast, just as we were packing up to leave the sun came out. Tomorrow we are going to attempt to build a door. I hear that it's hard but we are up to the challenge.