Later this year, Debbie will be traveling to Kampala, Uganda with a team from our local church. She will be helping in various projects such as the construction of a new classroom unit for children in a Watoto village. Click here to learn more about Watoto. Separate from the cost of travel etc, the team is believing for a funding drive of a whopping $17,000. That is the amount needed in order to construct one of these classroom units. To that end, they/we need your help. Little by little, this goal can be realized, and children and families devastated by AIDS and civil war will be rescued. Leave a comment if you want to know more, and if you're a PayPal user, click on the donate button below to help out. I will see that you receive an official receipt for income tax purposes. Thanks for considering this.
It's interesting that I have not written anything here yet this year, not even a Happy New Year. I must be busy. During this season, I do much thinking about snowstorms, power outages, survival etc. I like to think that most bases are covered. I have enough firewood to last me into next winter, so a power outage is really only an inconvenience at worst. Of course winter helps in that the only real electric dependency, Refrigeration, is offset by the fact that it's cold. However, and to get to my point, I'm a little obsessed with the whole concept off "off-grid refrigeration". It's actually a childhood throwback on two fronts. Let me explain, first I remember going to our "camp" in the summer. Routinely, considerable quantities of Soda Pop (we just called it "drink") were lugged to the camp. Sometimes it was Co-op brand tin cans, Pepsi, or even green bottles of Mountain Dew complete with the hillbilly exclaiming "it'll…