Another week

It's friday and I'm spending the afternoon at the front desk at church for Nancy Sala. She needed to go to a funeral so I'm here knitting and playing on the computer. I picked up the Pfaff sewing machine this morning and had a few lessons just to get started like how to thread the machine and fill the bobbins. I did a hem and it's a beautiful machine. More play time tonight. Yest erday was Soup Kitchen. We had a good number of people with plenty of help. I ordered a huge shipment of food for the soup kitchen and put that on the shelves in the afternoon. That's enough work for at least three people but I always think...slow and easy will get the job finished. And I did get it done. Farmers Mkt. McDonalds and then first choir practice. That's always fun. I think tomorrow is going to be a fairly simple day. More play time. Sunday is the same. After a late Sat. run to Panera we'll get the hospitality time going Sunday morning. There is a big church dinner after church one reason it's the start of the new fall season for the church and there is a huge capital fund campaign coming about. Some major stuff needs to be completed like foundation drainage problems among the list of to do things. It would appear that all the foundations need to be redug with new drainage needing to be put in place. It's huge, huge,huge bucks. We have had major flooding in the building this summer and it's not the first time for a water mess. We'll learn how many dollars Sun at the dinner. Monday evening is the last Umuja meeting before the carnival next Sat. The youth of central Indiana are hoping to raise $16,000.00 for tuitions and other school support items for 50 western Kenya kids orphaned or vunerable by HIV/Aids. We have ambitious Central Indiana kids. Last year they raised 8,000 at the carnival.

Aug 22nd

Still shopping for a sewing machine. I think right now it will be a Phaff. Sticker shock still shocks me. Yesterday a got a table at Lowe's to hold the machine. It won't fit in the cabinet. Just to big. Soup Kitchen went well. We're feeding more people. I think they like the Second Helpings food that supliments what we make. It's a big help with the budget. In my spare moments I've helped Janet W set up for Sunday School. We are opening another new classroom with new materials. Fun, fun. It's a hands on curriculum that reflects a renewal in teaching. Knitting continues. The deer continue to feast in the garden. Tomato plants have taken another licking and they are eating the huge tomatoes as well. Some impatiences have gone. I'm wondering if color is getting to them. They are leaving the hostas alone which usually is great deer food.
Eric and Kat and the munchkins are coming for Sloppy Joes. I'll show Andrew all the deer tracks. He should have a blast. Doug is taking great insect pictures with his new camera. He's outside every day scouting the garden. Kids should be arriving soon.

Vacation is over

Michigan was the best. Weather perfect meaning cool in the day, cool in the night...no flies to speak of, great conversation and lots and lots of knitting along with some reading. You have got to be there to really understand. Jared and Kimmy and the kids were there and you can see and read more at their blog of rockinrfarms.blogspot.com. It's worth a trip to that site. And..you will hear all about the big fox kill outside the chicken house. That's really worth reading about. We got home Monday afternoon after taking two days for the trip home. What a gift Doug gave me. But really...Doug's knee has been giving him fits all through the vacation but he really didn't say much about it. I just knew things were not right when he sat and read most of the time. So off to the Doc. Wed. afternoon and now a knee replacement is planned for Sept 24th. It was jump back into things for me on Tuesday. It's crazy how that is allowed to happen. Working at the church desk Wed. as well as helping Janet Wanner got the church school year started with new classrooms, new furniture etc. Thursday was Soup Kitchen and the afternoon meant a trip to the State Fair for a walk around or really a ride around on the little trolleys. This morning I'm working at the Gourd Society booth from 9to 1. Then home for a spell I hope and then off to down town Indy for a Taste of Africa event in the evening. Tomorrow I'm working at the Imani store at the continuation of the Africa Festival. Maybe by Sun. afternoon there might be a minute or two for a good sit on the patio or something like that.