Fishing From Our Front Door

Well, the water is still rising. Everyone keeps saying that the water will recede this week, but we have heard that for three weeks straight. Today, after talking to someone, we found out that way back in 2000, the water was about 5 feet higher than it is currently. That mark was also reached back in 1993. Right now we have tons of sandbags, tons of water, and no sign of either of them going away. However, both will continue to multiply.

With the high water, the fish have been easier to access. We literally can fish from our front door. We can also fish from one of the doors to our dining hall. Here is a photo of some of the girls fishing. This area was once only a drain off for washing clothes (about 4 feet deeper than normal).

Here is a photo of the sand bagging crew. We realized that the few sand bags that we had, were not sufficient, so we decided to fill more. These girls were troopers and helped us fill 50 more.

Here we are celebrating. We enjoyed some ice cream afterwards, all of them enjoying themselves –Kevin thoroughly enjoyed himself as you can see (he had decided to give himself war paint about 20 minutes earlier…).