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What a welcome after two months of leave in the Netherlands. Our sheep surprised us with no fewer than four lambs. But now we need 2 boy sheep names and 2 girl sheep names.

Who has beautiful names for this foursome? The first name has already been given to our black and white lamb: Shaun.
I’d love to hear good suggestions for the other three. But now I am on watch for one of the lambs who is severely weakened and needs regular feeding. Hopefully he survives with some extra bottles of food at night.

This week we had the carpenter at work at Ahava. A few more jobs and chores are done. For example, he made new moulds for our soap factory and fixed mosquito netting for the windows of the soap factory so that the insects can now build their nests outside and not inside.

And another job done. Our container building is finally completed. It has become a beautiful multifunctional building where, next to the containers, we have built a beautiful storage space, space where we process our old paper, space where we store our firewood and a beautiful veranda where we do welding, carpentry work, painting jobs and whatever is jobs need to be done.

We’ve been working hard over the past few weeks. We had already started re-building the water trench but ‘on the way’ we received input from friends. Lots of things to think about and many more ideas discussed. Grateful for friends and staff members which made that finally we came to the following result.

The water trench is gone and we took all the concrete and bricks who were still remaining out. After that almost 4 trucks with sand went in there where the water trench was before and that was a lot of trips with the wheelbarrow up and down. But we are so happy with the result. Now we have to put up the fence because especially Mo (the naughty donkey) finds the lawn grass in my garden irresistibly attractive and then the job is done.