Tues Sep. 1

 And September is here! 

A rainy day

Tulshi went for meat for us.. 2 pongas fish, 3 chickens, and whatever pork he could get a hold of. 

Lonnie discovered additional, outside activity when he opened the book work on the computer, so spent a few hours digging into that with his fellow missionaries and they were able to sign out a “foreign” party.

And the rest of the afternoon was spent cleaning fish, washing meat, and cutting the chickens up for the freezer with enough time to go to the nearby dokan for time with the locals. And back in time for supper made by Miss Christina

My day was laundry, getting the online H&H printed for easier read by everybody, mending, tidying, taking care of littles, putting meals on the table, doing a timed word search with Maddie after supper,..

Mon Aug 31

 Made a batch of bread with a couple loaves being cinn swirl.

Chicken taco lunch

Had good singing with the girls after Jaira’s music class.

 Lonnie donned his work clothes and spent a good share of the day at the neighboring dokan repairing our grill lid “that was used too much when it was new“..The dokander had seen Lonnie’s knife sharpening system and had some knives that could use it so Lonnie told him he’d pay for his repair job by sharpening the knives😉

Maddie and I got the calligraphy books out after supper and had fun doodling and practicing

Sun Aug 30

It’s been a family effort getting Gentry to walk independently, cheering him on as he walks back and forth between 2 people with much clapping and cheering at each trip across the room🤎

 This morning while I was working on lunch, Lonnie was watching the 2 littles. The Carrom board has been balanced on the top of 3 wooden dining room chairs for the past year but this morning while Gentry was playing below he must’ve bumped the chairs just wrong and that heavy beast of a Carrom board came crashing to the floor, chairs upended, Gentry underneath😱 Miraculously, when the board was lifted off of him the only damage we could see was a very pinched ear, the girls came down from their classroom to see what the clatter and bang was all about. The sturdy Carrom board showed no signs of it’s mishap😳 But there was no questions asked, Lonnie put the Carrom board away and swept up all the sawdust that had been knocked out of the bug holes. 

Dipti reports that her daughter in law’s mother is now in the hosp. with Dengue😣 Ive heard of too many cases now! And the crazy thing is, we don’t even hardly see mosquitoes! It seems like they are so much less than last year! Like, I’ve seen maybe 2 here at the house in the last week or 2 and 2 at Lewis’s when we were there last Wed.!?!