Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Not so weather proof

This is a nice photo of our trucks preparing for their bath.
Here is our new compound, notice the looming rain clouds that penetrated our CHU’s like they were submarines with screen doors.
Our compound is quite nice now. We have gone a long way to improve our living conditions, too much probably since everyone else on the COP is envious of our compound.

Ah yes, running water in my Chu.


This wasn't near as unpleasant as waking up to a cold shower right above my bed. Part of the reason I got a cold shower while I was sleeping was due to the fact that I jacked up the front part of my chu, placing a 2x4 under the feet, to make the water run off the top instead of pooling while gravity forces it to find a way down. The seams in my ceiling gave way to a puddle above.


Yes, some flooding outside as well. As much as I love the rain, I prefer keeping mud outside my room. However, I did consider fishing in our small pond...


Yes, I nearly got stuck. To the left of the truck are the "hesco" barriers, which were filled before any compacting could have been done. DC was quite amused at how the truck started sinking as he was backing me up.


I took this photo from VBC, near Camp Stryker. Rarely do you see the moon, Jupiter and Venus lined up like this.


I believe this view could have been seen from North America in the early morning, while here we viewed it in the early evening.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well you do always like to go play in the mud!

Love you

Anonymous said...

I admired that configuration of the moon framed by Jupiter and Venus Monday morning. No camera though.