Regular school classes at last!

The exercise bike impostor is actually pretty cool. There were no instructions with it so we had to go on line to learn how to use it, but we're happy to have it. It is especially good since we haven't heard any news of the bike we ordered on line. Maybe we'll get it by Christmas.

It's an abdominal workout pulling your knees toward your chest.


Renovating:
There were a couple of small paint projects left. One was painting the outside of the screen door.

The pictures may not tell the full story, so trust us... it is much better.

We also painted the window trim where rust was forming.


Here's a strange phenomena. When using water based paint, we picked clothes and designated them as our "paint" clothes so we didn't panic when we got paint on them. However, when we washed the clothes, the paint came out. Maybe not the first washing, but a couple of washes has taken out all the paint. Pretty cool, Argentina, even if paint doesn't come in different sheen's, and we have to mix our own colors since there is limited color choices.

School:

School kept us busy the rest of the week. We had only a small amount of rain that slowed us down when picking up the kids, but it didn't keep us home.

We are refining our teaching a little more all the time. This week was the best yet.

One of the ladies at Los Perales finished her bag. She was thrilled. The other two will probably finish this week. No rain is in the forecast so our last three weeks before school closes for the summer months should be good. That's right we only have three weeks left of school this year.

We started the two older kids at Los Perales with piano lessons. We have a big learning curve ahead. Teaching piano is already pretty tricky...now do it in Spanish. 


Who can help us with this puzzle. We had Meesa, our son's wife, send us a digital clock from home with the Hynes since we hadn't been able to find a clock here that could be seen in the dark. We were so excited to be able to know the time at night. Well, each evening we would set the clock to the correct time and by morning it was 2-3 hours slow. It is not adaptable to the 240 amps we have in Argentina so we had plugged it into a transformer, but what would cause a clock not to keep time? Baffling! 


We plugged it into a regular plug to see if that would help and blew it out. It's no longer any use but we're sure curious what would cause the irregularity.

We took a picture of this clock at the hotel in Buenos Aires and took the picture with us to about 8 different shops in Concordia hoping to find a similar one. We had given up trying to find it until on our circle back to the truck we were impressed to try one more place. They had it! It was $32 for a simple $9 US clock but who cares....they had one so we bought it.

Ahhh. We're sleeping better. 

We have more stuff from home coming by mule as we call it. Employees travel between Salt Lake and Buenos Aires from time to time and have room for extra luggage. We hear Mauro has three of our five boxes of stuff. Hopefully, he'll visit us before Christmas. Mailing them is not an option.

Another question for our readers:
Gregg keeps getting bit. Most are mosquito bites we think, but we wonder if some are flies. He does everything we can think of to protect himself: bug spray with deet twice a day, long sleeves, long pants, avoids being out at dusk and dawn, openings in the home are now sealed off, we fumigated places where we've seen mosquitoes, kept sheets washed, wet areas are kept as dry as possible using buckets to collect water instead of letting water run everywhere. We can't figure how he is still getting bit under his clothes and on most of his body. Tips anyone?