Do you know that feeling? You start at A and then you realize it would be wise to do B and C as well. We wrote in an earlier blog that we had our roof nails replaced with roof screws (in 2012 we would have done that ourselves but now we hired someone to do it for us). Then we discovered that some of the beams under the roof were starting to deteriorate. We decided to tackle that right away. Over the past week and a half, pieces of the beams have been replaced, and we had the roof painted a nice red color. It looks great again.

Monday September first we’re getting on a plane to the Netherlands again. Marco will then have a day to pack his suitcase for Paraguay because on September 4 he will fly back to South America. It’s crazy, but the connection from Amsterdam to Foz is much better than from Paramaribo. If everything goes according to plan, he’ll be back on Dutch soil September 16.

Then we are going to visit Germany, with friends for a midweek break in Sauerland. You can imagine how much we’re looking forward to that!

Next stop (for Marco) is Toronto in Canada for a short week of World Team meetings. This time it will be special because October 1, we will say goodbye to the current International Director and the new director will be installed. We are happy to be well acquainted since we have been working together for the past ten years in the Americas Area. For the first few years, we will support him and his family wherever we can, but there will come a time when we say, ‘the younger generation can take over from us’.

During the fall break, we plan to spend a weekend in Zeeland in the South West of the Netherlands with our children and grandchildren to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary.