December Building and Rice Photos

December has been a rather busy month with lots of building and farming activities. Israel and Hannah have returned from their honeymoon and work is progressing well on the second floor. If all goes according to schedule, the roof slab will be poured on around about the 23rd Dec. The slab will need daily watering for awhile to help it cure properly. In the new year, work will start on the widow's building and finishing off the parapet wall and electrics upstairs. While Israel was away Daniel organised sowing the seeds for the rice which, as you can see in the photos below has germinated nicely. At 20 days growth a team of ladies will be hired from the village to begin transplanting the seedlings into all the fields that you can see with water in them. Ponnumani (Mani) is recovering well and able to do a little bit of walking.