Homemade battery charger

What do you do when your van won't start and the battery charger won't charge and no one is around to jump you off?

Use a weedeater and an extra alternator!!

It took Tim about six hours to get the van charged up, he worked and worked at this.


Tim's dad and oldest brother would be proud of him!!!!

Weedeater

The weed eater was an amazing thing to some of the kids in the neighborhood. They wanted to try it out.



Joey trying it out.

Sleeping buddies

One night while I was ready for bed I found Alexis and Cheetah sleeping. It was to cute not to take a few pictures, so Tim got the camera. A little while later she woke up and found Cheetah beside her (she does not like Cheetah to bug her while sleeping), so Alexis picked her up and put her outside of the room and shut the door.

Tyler goes to Middle

On August 1st and 2nd, Tyler and his Sunday school class went to Middle Caicos. This was a good opportunity for him to see another island and meet new people. He really enjoyed his time there. They explored caves, went swimming, etc. He would like to go back again.







Rodney
Tyler and the pastor's son on Middle

I know it has been awhile.

Sorry for being so long in blogging. I've been very busy. all four kids are now in school and that takes up a lot of my time. Over all it has been going well, only 175 days of school left!!

I'm going to try to check up on the blog. Towards the beginning of August Tim was helping a friend during a sailboat race. We walked down the beach and planned on watching him race, but two hours after the race was to start we finally walked back home. Once we made it home the race started, so we didn't get to see him race. the boat he was on came in first in their division and they came in second over all.






Waiting for the race to start





While we were waiting for the race to start, we were sitting on a pier and the kids were getting bored so they would jump off of the pier into the water. They had a lot of fun. It was a pretty good jump for the little ones.

Here is Trevor after landing in the water.

Tanner preparing to jump.

Alexis getting ready to jump. She would tell everyone to be quiet (she had to work up the nerve to jump), then she would plug her nose and cover her eyes before jumping. She had a lot of fun though.

SHARK!!!!

Tim and Tanner went fishing last night and caught this shark. It is a reef shark. The shark is almost as big as Tanner is. We have been wanting to eat some shark for quite some time. We have seen shark out in the water, especially when Tim or Trevor have been out in a boat with friends. They've seen some pretty big sharks, Ugh!!! and we get in that same water and swim around. You just never know what is in the water close by!

Conch Farm

Today we also toured the Conch Farm. This was something that we have been wanting to do for awhile and just never got around to it. So today we did that also. This was interesting to us because Conch is a food that is native to here. And we have mentioned and showed pictures of Conch on here before. The tour guide told us how they hatch the conch from eggs and raise them to about four years old before selling them. He showed us the different sizes of shells as they grow, etc. the Conch farm sells around 1.5 million a year. That is a lot of conch, and he said that most of them go to Miami. Wow!


Here are some of the tanks where the conch are kept from different stages. The wire ones out in the ocean hold around 5,000 conch each. The tanks up close are the ones that hold the 1 year old conch. They were small, I know you can't see them, but they are in there.






Here are Tim and the kids. Tim and Tyler are looking at some of the boats out in the water and the younger kids are looking into a tank that has different kinds of fish.

This is Sally (the conch). We were told that she is a trained conch. She is use to being handled and so comes out of the shell. It was neat to see how big it is, and to see it come out of its shell. The ones we catch in the ocean will hide in the shells and not come out.

This is our tour guide showing us Sally.