It has been a long time since I posted anything here. It has been extremely busy for me here. Along with the normal work "stuff" we had a new couple from the US join us at Majitech. They are from Colorado and he has been in the drilling business all of his life. Debbie and I hit it off right away with Ray an Lori. We spent a lot of time helping them find a house and getting it furnished.
This past week Ray and I and a Tanzanian worker went about 100 Kilometers out into the bush to install a windmill for a community called Lobosoit. It is a community of about 4000 people and it is a very dry area even without the drought we have been going through. We had visited the community about 3 weeks ago and Elias one of the community leaders showed the one well in the middle of the town center that supplies the whole community. He told us that you got into line to get water and it takes 3 days to get through the line. When you get to the water pipe you can get 2 20 liter pails of water per person and that has to last that family at least the 3 days to get back through the line again. The three of us along with 4 locals dug the foundation and erected the windmill tower. The tower is 40 feet tall and the top 7 foot we had to put on in one piece stand almost 40 feet in the air with about 200 lbs of steel over our heads and the wind blowing at about 25 MPH. The 10 minutes of so that it took us to get it bolted in place seemed to be forever. On several occasions it seemed like we were about drop the tower part or one of us fall. But God is good and with a lot of prayer we managed to get the top installed. We packed up our tools and made the nearly 4 hour trip back to town to spend a day with our wives and time in church. We will return this week to assemble the actual wind mill atop the tower and start laying pipe to supply the community, a clinic, a church and the doctor and nurses homes with fresh water.
The whole area is a red clay but with the lack of rain not much is growing there it allows the near constant wind to blow the topsoil away. I know that having that constant wind will be good for the windmill but, there was so much dirt in the blowing wind we felt like we had been sandblasted by the end of the 3 days.

Don