ventanas (windows), avispas (wasps) and espejos (mirrors)

Yesterday, (4/25/12) we stayed on campus all day.  A small amount of schoolwork accomplished early in the morning and Daveed ran "the loop" here on campus to train for hockey season back at home.  Speaking with his Dad last night about the hockey camp going on in Frisco has reminded him that he does actually live in Texas not in Guatemala :).   Most of the day was consumed with the window project.  We filed and filed and filed.  Rosemery came down to help too so all seven of us worked about 6 hours and we got 2 1/2 windows finished.  So, a little clarification on this window project . . . I think we have been posting different numbers on here . . . there are 23 windows but each window is in 2 halves and each half has 14 glass panes and each pane has 8 edges that have to be filed. That's 5, 152 edges that have to be filed.  So, technically we finished 2 1/2 windows just yesterday but really that is 5 windows which is 70 panes which was 560 edges that we filed.  In total, so far, we have finished 10 windows.  I think everyone is wearing a band-aid today.  Those window panes are razor sharp before we file them. 
The screen guys came back.  I think that I forgot to blog a couple of days ago that they had returned
and re-installed the doors that they had put in wrong.  Yesterday they installed the mirrors in the bathrooms.  Up until then we had been living without mirrors - which actually is very liberating.
My kids attended "English" class here on campus which actually works very well at teaching them Spanish.
Daveed found a complete skeleton of some type of carnivore.  He conducted a complete excavation of the area and we are quite sure that the entire skeleton is now safely transferred into the house  . . . 
Guierrmo (translation for William) worked on his table that he is building for this house.  He wanted to bring it up here from the woodshop.  Daveed helping.  Somehow translates into Daveed slicing open the top of his foot.  More band-aids.  While Wil was working on his table with the electric sander he was swarmed by wasps from the nest above his head.  Raul to the rescue, he burned the nest (I'll post pics).
Sarah and Rosemery made tortillas.  It's official now, we no longer walk to town for our tortillas.  Sarah is our tortilla cook.  She had been learning from the girls on campus and now she is confident enough to manage that duty.  She can cook them on the wood fire stove or on the indoor stovetop.
Rosemery had dinner with us.  Church 7:00 - 9:00.  Skype with Steve.  All in bed by 10. 

Burning the wasps nest

Santiago helping.

Tortilla cooks

Mott-Motts outside our door.

Today, after 7:00 a.m. all campus devotions, we are going to finish one side of a window and then head into town to try and find that correo (post office) again.  Also, we have started making our own salsa to go with our beans and rice in the evenings so we have been burning through the fresh tomatoes.  Just when we learn how make our own tortillas  . . . another thing crops up to draw us into town  frequently.