Fondue

After a hard day of work cleaning up after the Lyon church group (130
people, and it went great!) our team enjoyed cheese fondue over the
fire for dinner.

Alarm System Ditch

We just filled in the ditch we've been working on for the past few weeks. It's for the cables for the new fire alarm system, to hook up the new building to the central system. A lot of work, mostly by Pam, Owen, and Maribeth, although Debbie and I pitched in too when we could (and our neighbor Corantin helped out a few times too). We ran into 11 pipes, and only broke two of them (both of them septic luckily, so no gas or water to shut off - one of them had actually been broken before, and we actually broke through the previous patch). Lots of old tile, old bottles, and bits of bone, it's quite exciting to dig around here :)

New van for the Château

We got a new van! We were finally able to replace "Big Blue", our old 1989 Mazda van with over 194,000 miles on it. This is a 2003 Ford Transit, 74,000 miles, and it even has AC! It will be great for hauling supplies, and picking up visitors at the train station or airport. Almost 1/3 of it was paid for from the Château 100 Club gifts, which was exciting for us - we have 38 people signed up for the 100 club, and hope to have a lot more, so if you're interested in being a part of it, it's a very easy way to be a part of the Château ministry - check it out at www.chateau100club.com

Macro pictures

Just figured out that I can hold the lens of my 50mm lens up to my zoom lens, set the focus to infinity on both of them, and take cool macro pictures (the lens are front-glass to front-glass). Here are a couple of sample pics, of my watch and then the auto/manual focus switch on another lens. All sorts of new fun stuff to try out now!

Ditch

Everyone working on the new ditch for the fire alarm system.

Burgess family at bridge park.

Jay and debbie at bridge park.

Maribeth climbs the obstacle course

Blowtorch

Last night as we walked back to the place we were staying and ran
across 3 men burning the lane markings off the street. Kinda sureal at
1am to see men blowtorching the street in downtown Paris.

Picnic on bridge in Paris

We're up on Paris helping the Plasters set their new apartment -
building a closet, putting together new furniture, doing some
electrical work and helping carry stuff down 8 stories, and back up to
the second story of their new building. We're taking a break for lunch
right now, on the "ponts des arts" for a picnic.