May 31

It seems like we just can't stop ourselves from taking pictures every time we step outside!  

Orange trees on the grounds

That little oven down there is our principal oven.  You gingerly open and close the door (with a hotpad if the oven is on!) since it was recently replaced after the original glass door exploded prior to preps.  You turn the knob on the bottom right slightly to the left and stick your hand containing the lighter inside the oven.  Keep turning the knob until the flame jumps to life, missing your eyebrows by a centimeter or so.  Remove your hand and adjust the flame as you see fit.  There's no thermometer.  Don't you know what a 350-degree flame looks like?!

The gas tanks that power the ovens and stoves

Bread oven

Tyson in his typical pose

Kitchen on the left; guest cabin on the right

Looking down into the outdoor kitchen

The path leading from the kitchen to the lower level of the white house past this little guest cabin on the left

Filling the coffee pot with water from the purified water tank

More kitchen cleaning

Aunt Beth and I tackle the bathroom directly off the kitchen.

No, there's no hope of rubbing the black off the bottom of these pots!

Burning the hair off a freshly dead chicken

Disinfecting the vegetables for a tossed salad

Have you ever seen a chicken tree?

The crew

Massive cabbage

Magy feeds Martín. 

It rather looks like she's expecting something to come jumping / crawling / slithering out at her!  And something very possibly might! 

Relaxing for a minute

The Howden family from Canada spent a couple of days with us.  

We greatly appreciated their help.