latest form Bob Fairchild in Haiti

Bob and Denise,
We went up to Garsen yesterday and found our barrels of stove stuff and pulled them to the front. We unpacked one of the barrels full of tools and hardware into the workshop. Combined what stuff we could and relabeled some of it correctly. We found the sun oven screw mechanism for Boucan Richard so headed up there and installed it. The gate was locked and the key was apparently unavailable so we (me, Mich, and Jean Louis) climbed in and out over the gate. It took all of ten minutes to get the new screw on. We opened the reflectors and checked the glass and it was fine One of the big bent angles that the reflectors lean against was bent and we straightened it as best we could.
Today we sorted through all the stove barrels with the help of a couple of the sisters' volunteers, put only one type of brick, insulation, or mortar into their own barrels and moved half of everything down to Fon Imbo. Jan and I went back after lunch and split and cut various bricks as needed for one big stove and split and cut a mouth notch in a 30 gallon barrel and put hinges on both seams so we could pull pins to remove it as the the form for the insulating concrete(no more cookie sheets!.) We had plenty of help from the guardian Claude and other local men and children. Jan took some pictures.
Tomorrow we start the stove building class at Fon Imbo. We hope to get their four stoves built tomorrow and Friday. I may need to put finishing touches on them over the weekend.
Tell Jadotte he needs to get the road up to Garsen worked on. It's a mess, especially right past that first little right fork. Barak said they had a hard time getting the big truck up with the barrels. He had trouble today getting his truck up. It took him about 15 minutes to get his truck up the hill to the school.
We only found one of the buckets of paint so far. In one of the 16 gallon barrels in a 30 gallon barrel. Where is the second one?
We're talking about doing the mango nectar some time next week.
Hope to get up to Kalabat to check out damaged school and the impressive terracing I heard about. Is Palo around up there?
We'll be getting a long tour at Grepin as that's where we'll stay if Jan brings students.
Can I cut the bottoms off a few beat up barrels to make little firewood dryers and compost bins? Some are too banged up for stoves. The empties are really starting to pile up.
Say hello to Jadotte. Tell him it is not far....
Peace,
Bob