Hello everyone!

This week has been great,  There was a ladies retreat at Megumi Chalet (a Christan conference centre nearby) so we lost our cook for monday tuesday and wednesday. Luckily Cliff came to the rescue, and fed us very well for the time Sue wasn't there. It also snowed earlier in the week, and evrything just looks incredibly beautiful! 

On the work front, we have been making pretty good progress. we have the exterior housewrapped, and the facia and soffit completed. Also we tore out the old floor and some of the old beam in the floor and are now in the process of building a new one out of treated lumber as well as insulating it with 4 inch styrofoam. When Cliff showed us our options of what kind of plywood we could use for sheeting Josh and I were in awe. The thinnest sheeting they use for floors is one inch thick, but most of the Japanese use plywood that is over 1 1/4 inch thick! it has no flex whatsoever! who even needs floor joists with that stuff?

We are thoroughly enjoying having the freedom to drive around a bit now that Josh has his international driver's license and we are hoping that we can do our own snowboarding trips now and not have to sucker one of the other people into driving us.

Both Josh and I have began to seriously consider staying for another month (till the end of march) but have not made a firm decision yet. We feel that it would be a real blessing to Cliff and TEAM if we could get more than just the early stages of our cabin done. Please pray for us as we make this decision, neither of us are depending on the decision of the other for our own final call.

Till next time, thanks for praying!

-Flo