Oh! You caught that? A litre is less than a gallon? 30 litres is approximately 12 gallons? Well, you've got to admit that is a lot of mud right? When you get in a bathtub with twelve gallons of mud you are going to get pretty darn muddy, right? No, We didn't get in a bathtub full of mud. We got down in it, down and dirty as they say. We wrestled with the mud! We stuck our hands right down in the bucket of mud and we wrestled. Well, maybe it was more arm wrestlin' with the mud. OK, only thumb wrestlin, but we wrestled! and usually the mud won. Why all of the mud wrestlin'? Like I said at the beginning only two days to complete the project. All of the sheetrock is up and we are taping and mudding the joints. Some of the joints received their 3rd coat of mud today. Some newly installed sheetrock received only the first layer of mud, but every joint today received a layer of mud.
After lunch today, 4 from the team went to Rapina to work at the church there and then attend a prayer meeting this evening. That left on 7 at the Mission to mud wrestle. The mud wrestlin' ring is really too small for 11 wrestlers but 7 were able to grapple with ferocity. With any luck, we will have the ceiling painted and the walls ready to paint by the end of the day. If so, our goal will have been achieved. It's hard to use your camera when you are mud wrestlin' , so I took a total of one picture. Apparently the sport of mud wrestlin' is pretty popular in some social circles. The most famous mud wrestlers seem to always be women. So I took a picture today of a woman mud wrestler.
Casi has the mud on the ropes.
Go Casi Go
Go Casi Go
Becca, Javier, Gregg and Wayne all went to Rapina. Now Becca says that the job wasn't supposed to start until they arrived at Rapina but Wayne worked sawing logs all the way there and his chain saw was working at full tilt. They begin by painting the sanctuary. Apparently, we have another Gilligan's Island type story however. Javier and Rein decided to go get paint brushes and rollers. They managed to be gone just long enough for Becca, Gregg, and Wayne to finish the job. Because they were so fast Rein decided that a floor in another room needed painted as well. At least this time Jav and Rein stuck around.
Dinner was prepared by Jahn's wife, Elli. It consisted of liver chopped fine and put in a gravy. The gravy was served over mashed potatoes with horseradish. This was the first time that Becca had ever had liver. She said it was good but the horseradish was hot. She cooled if off by devouring cucumbers.
After dinner our 4 teammates attended a parayer meeting at the Rapina church. during the prayer meeting Becca sang a solo, You Raise Me Up. She did so well that they ask her to do another, How Can I Keep From Singing? For her encore she sang As the Deer. I gather that a tradition in the Estonian Methodist Church is for individuals to give testimonials. Like you might expect from the 3 bears Javier gave a long testimonial, Wayne gave a medium length testimonial, and Becca's testimony was just right. But the kicker of the evening as our good friend Jahn. you may remember Jahn as our driver to and from Rapina last Sunday during mud puddle derby. Apparently Jahn is a quite the talker. He gave the great big grand-daddy testimony, a long winded affair that included three separate long stories.
This evening we are enjoying the company of Kaire. She is the librarian that escorted us during our brief Ahja history tour. She appears to be very knowledgeable about Estonia and many other things. She also accomanied on our ant tour and was with us when we hit the mother load of ant hills.
Well, no pictures tonight, only took one today and it's already in here.
Randy Mac
Dinner was prepared by Jahn's wife, Elli. It consisted of liver chopped fine and put in a gravy. The gravy was served over mashed potatoes with horseradish. This was the first time that Becca had ever had liver. She said it was good but the horseradish was hot. She cooled if off by devouring cucumbers.
After dinner our 4 teammates attended a parayer meeting at the Rapina church. during the prayer meeting Becca sang a solo, You Raise Me Up. She did so well that they ask her to do another, How Can I Keep From Singing? For her encore she sang As the Deer. I gather that a tradition in the Estonian Methodist Church is for individuals to give testimonials. Like you might expect from the 3 bears Javier gave a long testimonial, Wayne gave a medium length testimonial, and Becca's testimony was just right. But the kicker of the evening as our good friend Jahn. you may remember Jahn as our driver to and from Rapina last Sunday during mud puddle derby. Apparently Jahn is a quite the talker. He gave the great big grand-daddy testimony, a long winded affair that included three separate long stories.
This evening we are enjoying the company of Kaire. She is the librarian that escorted us during our brief Ahja history tour. She appears to be very knowledgeable about Estonia and many other things. She also accomanied on our ant tour and was with us when we hit the mother load of ant hills.
Well, no pictures tonight, only took one today and it's already in here.
Randy Mac
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