Happy Valentine's Day everybody!  It was a beautiful sunrise this morning over the waste treatment ponds here at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan.  Our clinic and our living CONEXes have arrived and are in the process of being put into place.  Our clinic floor was slightly damaged by unknown causes, so will have to be fixed before we can move into it.  Our two room living CHU has been placed "generally" where it is going to be located and they are planning on running temporary generator power to it in the next week or so.  Once they do, we will move operations to there, living in one side and working in the other.  Should be a definite step up from where we are now.  We have been seeing patients in our living quarters inside the tent for a little while now.  It's a little tight squeezing  two people and gear, AND clinic into a 16' x 8' area, but we are managing.

Our living area.

Our temporary clinic area.

Looking in from the front door of the tent.  We are all 

the way back by the back wall.  Notice the tarps 

people have put up to section off their little areas.

Me working on a guy's foot.

As I had previously posted, we got an amazing amount of rain in a few days.  Most of the time it rains for a day or two, and the ground is porous enough to soak it all up almost before puddles form.  However, we received too much rain too quickly.  All that rain mixed with all the fine dirt made a bunch of mud and made movement on the base difficult for a few days.  Cleanup has been ongoing since the rains ended, even causing a few tents to be condemned and torn down.  The pictures below illustrated just how much mud there was around some of these tents.  The mud ring is over a foot high!

Ok, one last picture.  This one is of the waste treatment pond that Kandahar is known (infamous?) for.  It is a little juvenile, but it's funny.  

Read the signs......