One week later

Another week. Wow...this one went very quickly. Snow still here but much less. That's very good. I've been doing lots of sewing. Keeps me happy. The first part of two projects is finished. I'm waiting for a sale to start the second part. Hospitality Rm at church was stuffed with people. It's such a fun place to see people on any Sunday morning. In the afternoon the highschool kids sponsored a showing of Invisible Children. It's a documentary made by three college age men who went to Uganda to film the story about children who had been kidnapped from their homes to serve/kill in the rebel army that is found in a large area around Lake Victoria. Thousands of the children run away from home to escape being kidnapped and now are found in the cities, sleeping in the streets, basements and just anywhere they can. It's a very sad event happening in Africa. If you get a chance to see this film please do. You will see another place in the world where things have gone wrong and is in great need.

This afternoon I am going to a meeting with a friend at Sec. Presbyterian Church to hear about the planning part of a carnival that highschool kids are sponsoring as a May event that includes other church youth in the Indy area. The carnival will benifit the Umoja (Unity) project in western Kenya. This project supports children with school uniforms to attend school as well as some cottage industries where people can find work making the uniforms. These central Indiana students are amazing in their Kenya committment. North and Sec. Presby youth have spent some time in Eldoret Kenya. Go Kids.

Monday morning

It was a very good weekend. Didn't do much and that was one reason. Back to church. It's interesting how I feel about the place after missing a week of services. The music once again was just great. Martin played the organ with the music going clear through to my bones. That might sound crazy but I know what I mean. Sitting in the choir loft right under the pipes is the best place in the church. It never can be to loud there. Hospitality time was fun. We decorated for Pres. day with little toothpick flags stuck in the pastries, red and white and blue table coverings. That just gives those coming a little surprise. Going slow this morning. Later today I need to talk to the finance sect. at church so I'll make a short trip there. And...the overflowing garbage cans are being pulled to the street. That's very good. Greenspace gardening meeting tonight and I'll call Mary K to see if she wants me to pick her up. I think I'll go to the Mexican Grocery to get some pastries before I see Dolores at church. She's from Mexico and needs a Mexican treat.

A week later

I've been a bit quite on the blog scene. It's thinking about the Mexico memories among other things that have kept me from this site. We ALL had a wonderful time and want to go back again at some point. What a wonderful treat last week was. This week...I've made an effort to get rid of some responsibilities. I've succeeded with ONE. Not more volunteering on Friday's at church. I get into such a spin with things I really enjoy but the simple fact is that I need to take care of my health more than I have. Diabeties does have it's place in my life now. This week I've done a whole bunch of pitching old stuff out of the house. Time at home helps that to happen and I do feel good about doing that. Decisions were easy to make. That's really the bottom line. Today I'm working on a pillow top for Jim. He bought the front and I'm attaching the back and getting the stuffings ready to insert. It's not a standard size pillow so I'll create the stuffing part to fit. Humm...maybe I just should do the pillow part and let him buy the stuffing in Mexico at the local Walmart! That's a better packing idea. It's bright, bright with a beautiful Mexican design. He said I have until next November to finish it. Well, by then I probably will have lost the top. So...get it done and in the mail. Back to sewing now.

Thursday in Mexico

Mary K and I arrived Monday evening and it's easy to say that we have had a whirl wind of activities since we have arrived. We really are enjoying Mexico for so many reasons. The weather is perfect, the people are very friendly, the food is amazing, there seems to be an unlimited number of different fruits, and we have discovered Mexican pastries. Yum, yum.

We've been to Tasco for a day, attended a home and garden tour of 4 huge houses that have nothing to compare to in Indy. My brain is getting a bit slow because I just can't remember everything. We've traveled by airplane, busses of many kinds, most of them as good as in the states. We've met many taxi drivers as well.

The restaurants are wonderful and we've eaten way to much food. And for visiting with each other...that's been the best.

Where is the snow?

The weather guys went nuts yesterday talking about the big snow coming. Well, the 7 inches decided to somewhere else. What a joke. I think we might have gotten 2 at the most. I hope the snowmobiler I saw getting gassed up isn't to disappointed. Poor guy. He did say he was going north if it didn't happen. Look out Michigan.

I've done a little more thinking of what to take to Mexico. Suitcase is about full and I'm getting my money together.

More news out of Kenya. There is little that would say there is a turn to the good in the events of the last week. More families displaced or divided because of tribal issues, homes burned, children abandoned. Health clinics open but not working well. HIV/Aids Meds unable to get to patients. Just so many stories of continued disturbance. My friends are the last two Americans in Eldoret and they are determined to stay at almost any cost. Remember Joe and Sarah Ellen and their Kenyan family of friends as well as those who will work toward a political solution.

This Sunday will be very busy. My visual arts pardoner at church is in Az. for the winter. Ash Wed. is in this coming week and the church colors need to be changed to purple. Help...I'm in Mexico! I recruited some folks that will help me get the job done right after church and also recruited people to get work done while I'm gone. It's like the old job of writing lesson plans when I was teaching so the substitute could carry on. I think it will all hang together. Over the years we've pushed the envelope for high visual expectations and I want that to carry on. It's a good time to enlarge the working pool of people. I'm really going to enjoy this Mexico trip. Yahoo.