Journal Entry from February 17, 2007...

February 17, 2007 (Saturday) -- Today was our first full day of work. One of the goals this week was to dig out around the pool wall and to seal it with a heavy plastic. For the past two years, we've painted and then repainted the murals on the wall at the top of the seating area because of the heavy rainfalls experienced in Bluefields during their rainy season. The ground gets so saturated that the water actually seeps through the cracks and onto the side where the murals are. This is what is causing all the damage to the murals, not the mention the many cracks that continue to get worse. So, the guys came up with a way to (hopefully) seal and divert the water away from the wall. They first dug down about two feet (to the bottom of the wall) and sealed it with a heavy duty plastic. Then they laid a pipe (with tiny holes drilled in it) from one end to the other for the purpose of funneling the water out and away from the pool wall. This was a job that they thought would take all week, but through Christ and everyone working together, it was completed in only one day! Praise God!!! Karen was inspired to call it "Drainage in a day"! --cs