Audio Update – Week of June 28, 2010

We have visitors! A team from a church in Livonia, Michigan is here to help with the painting. It’s a group of young people from a church that supports the Silseths, and they are some great workers. They just started on Monday and as of the end of today, they did some finish painting on the radio station building and the shop building and are almost done with the two houses. The radio and shop buildings were a project begun by a group that was here about a two weeks ago for just one day. By the time this team was done with those buildings, I was almost finished pressure washing our house and they started on that. Now, they are almost done with our house and most of the way done with the Silseths’ house. If the weather holds up, they should be all done by the end of the day tomorrow and they can do some fun stuff on Friday before they head back north on Saturday. The Audio Update below features some of the team.

Mildred and I are mostly over our intestinal ailments. We still get tired easily (Monday’s pressure washing marathon about did me in!) and restroom duties are not quite the way they used to be yet. But it’s a lot better than last week. The past two Sundays we were too ill to go to church, so that has really put us off schedule. We’ll probably be answering “Where have you been?” questions for the next several weeks as we resume our circuit of the churches where we go to keep in touch with our listener friends.

At last, the shipping company brought the hard drives and audio cards today that we need for our dual language project. The work team here now is from the church that financed quite a chunk of that, so the timing is very exciting. I hope that I can get started on Friday with setting up the computers. All the existing computers will need three new hard drives each, operating system upgrades, and automation software upgrades. On top of that, we are adding another computer to the mix so that we will have one dedicated computer for FM and another one for AM. This entails a total remake of four computers. Once that’s done I need to set up a not-as-old computer for Mildred to use for the station finances. Hers is quite long in the tooth and, in the process of revamping studio computers, I can put a new one in a studio to start the leapfrog process and then have one left at the end for a replacement business manager computer. It’s going to be a busy time.

Travis and Emily Mitten, along with their girls, got away on time last weekend, even with Tropical Storm Alex hovering around here. Emily went almost straight to the hospital when they got there to complete tests related to her pregnancy. She is home now at her parents’ place along with the rest of the family, but she is still not able to keep down much food or liquid. Please pray for her safety and that of the baby. She’s had this kind of trouble with all of the babies, so it’s not unexpected, but it is miserable and potentially dangerous.

So, that is the week’s news in a nutshell. We do appreciate your prayers, and ask you to keep on praying for the Mitten family, for our dual language project, and for the progress of plans to replace the guy wires and to repaint the AM tower on the island of Utila later this summer.

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