4 days later...Sunday

Woo...in some respects I feel like I've been hit by a mac truck.  That's what 74 feels like after way to much going on.  Thursday was the beginning.  Bread and Bowl or soup kitchen with no Diane to cook in the kitchen.  I knew that...So...I cooked and supervised.  That means keeping folks busy with jobs that needed to be completed...3 Marion Un. nursing students and 18 yr. old dear Joe who has some learning difficulties, Jeff who is doing community service and Salome who butters the bread and Eva who makes the salad.  It's just a bit to much but I made it through.  Diane will be back Thursday.  Yahoo. 

Friday Doug and I helped to move many, many office supply boxes filled with school supplies donated by church folks to school 43.  The truck was full, Eric O's 15 passenger van was full, Tom's Taho was full and the trunk of the car held the spill overs.  Twenty some teachers some of them getting 4 boxes of requested supplies.  That was about 3 hrs. of really intense work.  The teachers should feel as if they got a wonderful boost.  North sends at least 10 folks to tutor all year long.  Patty H. organizes this project and she does a better then ever job to make this work for us.  Organization is her name. 

This morning was hospitality time again and when arriving at church noticed that helper Waldene was NOT there.  So...It could have been called the Doug and Lela show.  Doug makes the coffee, sometimes at least 15 pots.  I really could have used help but after moving like a house on fire...we were ready for the crowd by 8 am.  And we closed up early...10:15 and I made it to church...Two other folks did help close up.  Yahoo.  People are coming back to church.  Kids are in school and we were busy, busy.  Second service was full. 

The music was the best ever and the sermon about the Carmel Housewife was great.  Now this is the Carmel lady Abigail who lived during David's time in Carmel.  Gotcha!  A great sermon to affirm woman.    So this afternoon...a two hr. nap and I hope to ease into next week with a little more sanity.  Some weeks are like this even in Australia.  Remember Alexandra? 

Finished two tooth fairy pillows for Andrew and Noah.  Fun, fun.  I'm ready to work on decorating some drapes for the little boys room.  And I have 4 robes to shorten for church kids.  I also started a knitting project.  That's a wonderful sit down job but my hands do a bit of screaming if I work to long.  So...now you are sort of caught up.  Nothing on the calendar tomorrow.  Tues. lunch out with my great retired teacher friends and that will get the week going.  Thursday B and B and a meeting with Laura who is home for a visa renewal which will take her back to Kenya to work with the Umoja project and Sat....Kenya Carnival and Sec. Presb.  I will have a booth.  Woo...tired thinking about that but I know the energy will be there.  Kenya kids have many, many school needs.  The goal again is to raise 35,000.00 dollars.  Some Indy kids have worked all year raising money.

Back again

Yes...back again to life in Carmel.  But the two week vacation is still with me for many reasons. 
Doug has been asked to have a display at church part being pictures and he chose many from vacation.  It's just a delightful way to once again remember the two weeks camping at Copper Harbor.  That has been on his busy list to finish.  And...it's done.  Joe W. will put the display together. 

I've finished 12 felt fabric boxes for Kat that she will use to help the grandsons  keep their toys sorted. 
I'm pretty well finished with the altar cloth.  Yesterday I sorted out pieces of felt and have a large container filled with donated to me felt.  Didn't buy an inch.  Now...it will be interesting to see what requests I have for other things to felt sew. 

Yesterday I also met with Doris D and Joe and Joel at church to hopefully get started with permanent storage for banners etc.

Weather has been wonderful.  Great sleeping nights and work days.  Grass is green, supper on the patio is delightful. 

Back Home Again In Indiana.

That's the song and I'm not happy singing it.  Copper Harbor was wonderful again.  Morning pancakes with the kids just can't be beat.  We finished up 5 boxes of mix.  I made eggs and bacon one morning and it was NOT a hit.  Won't do that again.  Weather was wonderful, company was wonderful, new tent was wonderful, icecream was wonderful, pasties were wonderful, smoked salmon was more than wonderful and the temperature just couldn't have been better.  Woo, woo.  We had a few sweatshirt days.  Star program needed two of them.  Woo...the stars are huge  Lots of them went shooting through the sky.  Saw the milky way once again.  Two weeks with the 3 grandsons really let me know that they have growing bodies and minds.  So much fun to see all of that first hand.  We took two days to arrive and come back home stopping in Madison Wi for a sleep.  Woo...I'm not a truck rider but got to do it.  Micro wave went and was used.  Toaster oven went and wasn't used.  Don't need a few other things as well.  Now...I need to write that down somewhere but I'll forget where.  Left knee is wearing out.  What a bummer and it is now in the stage of waking me up at night.  Humm...my plan is to fix it next fall, 2013.  Wish me luck.  So...that's my 3:30 am call this morning.  Pills.  We hit the library last night.  Doug had some overdues.  Ran out of books this year and knitted a dish cloth, did lots of walking and talking.  Kimmy and Jared knitted MANY of them during the two weeks.  Clothes are washed, Camping stuff is back on the shelf, E-mails are cleaned out, facebook is done.  Now on to life in Indy.