Jarez, Day 4

Today, I was humbled. I told you that Chad and I climbed the mountain yesterday and how I was out of breath and had to stop several times. Today, I watched a 14 year old girl climb that same mountain with ease. You might think that doesn't sound too bad, she is 14, probably in shape. The problem is, she carried a 2 year old baby to the top with her. I refused to take a picture of her climbing, since I didn't want photo evidence of what I can only guess is a freak of nature. Her name is Gabby and I think she might be bionic, but I can't prove it because I don't know how to say "bionic" in Spanish, so I couldn't ask. Nothing has made me feel my age more than that, knowing that I was considering tossing the cookie I was carrying to loose the extra weight. Plus, I thought if I tossed my "cookies," I could loose a little more. My stomach won the battle and I kept all of the cookies, other than that that flew out with my breathing. We've gotten a lot more done, but we are going to go back Friday morning to finish. We need to finish the walls inside and do a lot of trim work. I forgot to mention that the box that we have our tools plugged into, is black. Here is a picture of the box and you can see the black which is left over from what I can only guess, was a fire. It has been working just fine for us, but I'm always concerned that it will pop and catch fire, again. We were told that the family is currently stealing the electricity, but I can neither confirm or deny that. I know in the past, we have seen metal hooks that have a wire coming out that runs to the house. The hook part is then thrown onto the active power line, thus stealing the power. That sounds dangerous to me, but the wires that we were working with had actually been wired into the power box, which sounds even more dangerous. Might explain the fire on the outlet box.