Below are a few pictures of Mom and Dad on their wedding day. Hard to believe 50 years have passed already. Thought you might enjoy these pictures.
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October 20. Much warmer last night and this morning, and more clouds, but still a good amount of sunshine. It tried to rain this afternoon, but hardly enough fell to wet the ground, and then it was gone. Tried to thin out the pancakes more today so we could still have leftovers for Daddy’s morning snacks during the week while not having to use as much flour since we are running low on flour. The highlight of the morning was having the opportunity to talk with Christy and Connie. We heard school bells early this morning and thought that was very strange. Come to find out during lotu that school is in session today to make up for lost time. It is sad that these Christian parents go along with those things because their children’s education has such high priority in their thinking. People were here early for lotu, so lotu started on time. Sunny was here earlier to arrange flowers, but did not show up for the meeting. None of her family were there except for her mother. Daddy didn’t know if he was going to be able to preach this morning since his cold has started coming back. But he felt the Lord would have him go ahead, and we asked the Lord for strength for him to get through. The Lord graciously answered prayer. Daddy finished the teaching on reading and studying the word of God, and Matthew translated. After lotu, I read another chapter from my morning Bible reading to get my mind and heart off other things. Then Daddy and I sat and talked a while until I had a bit more peace of mind. Then I practiced keyboard, and afterward prepared our supper. This evening, I set up more journal notes to send to Connie. Had proofread about half of them when there was a knock on the door. Graham had come to visit us for the evening. What a blessing it was to visit with him, and to get to hear the rest of his testimony! He wasn’t able to finish in lotu this morning because he became overwhelmed with God’s goodness and the rest of the words were stuck in his throat. How good the Lord has been to him! He has truly been in a hard place with no other strong believers, the only other Owenian being Jonas who is a very weak Christian, if truly a Christian at all, and depended a lot on Graham’s spiritual strength to keep from going into temptations. Graham and Sosthenes and Phinehas call each other whenever they have a few toea (a little money) left on their phones and use that few minutes to encourage each other to stand strong. Please pray for these young men to continue to stand strong and to be good testimonies for the Lord. Pray for the Lord to bless and encourage them. Thanks! “I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah…. 8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee…. 10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.” Psalm 143:6,8,10
October 18. A very cold, clear night again last night with morning temperatures the same as yesterday morning. Praise the Lord, it didn’t take long for the day to warm up. And I enjoyed going out in the sunshine for a few minutes during school recess. It was a busy school morning with lots of new lessons to teach and not much free time for the teacher today. I did take a little time out at lunch time to eat a little bit as I was getting quite hungry. Then I ate a little more when school was done. The afternoon hours were very warm, and it was hard to rest comfortably at nap time. After nap, I took care of a small popo that was getting soft and needed to be cut up and put away in the fridge. Then I worked on the monthly update for a while. Needed to finish preparing a panful of pumpkin and uxai to cook for our supper, and also make a little more spaghetti sauce to go on the rest of Daddy’s spaghetti. Did dishes right after supper. Finished up the monthly update. Had a bath. Wrote in journal. Worked on lessons on the book of John. “23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23,24 A prayer of my heart today. October 19. A couple degrees warmer this morning. Only 50º instead of 48º. The day was soon to warm up, however; and by late morning, we were feeling the heat. Before we ever got up, we heard the swishing and chopping sound of a seraph. Bonita was out there early cutting the grass. While we were getting breakfast, we saw a couple others come in the back gate. We couldn’t figure out who it was at first. Then it dawned on us that it was Graham and Emma. Graham was home from school. Gibson had charge of lotu this morning. There were only around eighteen in lotu plus five young children. It was good to see Graham and to talk with him after lotu. He had arrived home on Wednesday. He said his exam was easy, and he is quite sure he passed and will be able to go on to eleventh grade next year. He’ll have quite a long vacation as the new school year will not begin until the end of January. He was very grateful for all the prayers that had been made on his behalf while he was away at school. Said he is planning to give a testimony in lotu tomorrow. Sunny was not here this morning to do laundry. She had sent word up to Bonita to ask her if she would do it. Sunny is having trouble with swelling and pain in her arm again, a problem she had had some time ago. So Judy (Bonita) did the laundry and swept the floors. And just before she finished, somebody brought us a bunch of greens so I asked Judy if she would please prepare the greens. She did so very willingly. While she was working in the house, Mike and family and Dallas were busy in the yard, cutting the rest of the grass, raking, and weeding. Mike and Dallas also cut firewood. I got the bed made up and then got e-mails in and worked on the lessons from John until Judy left. After Judy left, Daddy and I went for a little walk to the airstrip. I still don’t have a lot of strength after being sick so did not go up to the top. But we looked at the work the community had done. The airstrip work has been divided out among the churches, and the government has promised to pay the individuals who work if it is completed within a certain time. After we came back, we brought the clothes in. It didn’t take long for them to dry on a hot, sunny day like today. Then I warmed up dinner; and right after dinner, we had nap. It was so nice to get an earlier nap today. This afternoon, I washed my hair, cut up more popo and made a popo crisp, boiled some eggs for our supper sandwiches, started writing lesson plans for Monday, and wrote in my journal. Most of my computer time in the evening was spent finishing up the lesson on the first twelve verses of John chapter 9.
October 16. So thankful to be feeling better this morning though not very strong. At least I felt like eating a little bit. Not strong enough to handle school yet. Was thankful for Bonita’s coming after lotu to do the laundry. Went back to bed for a nap about mid-morning. Afterward, I prepared a couple potatoes and some kaukau for my dinner. Somehow I had managed to make spaghetti for Lewis yesterday (before the fever struck I guess), and there was plenty left over for today. I don’t handle spaghetti very well so fixed the potatoes and kaukau for myself. Had another fairly long nap after lunch. Then I practiced keyboard for a while, looked at the e-mails that came in yesterday, and wrote in journal. Late this afternoon, the fog and rains descended upon us, and the air turned quite cool. So I put the bath water on while we were eating supper, and had my bath immediately after supper. A little later, I washed dishes, wrote an e-mail, worked a bit on notes for lessons on the book of John. October 17. What a cold night it was! Outside temperature got down to 48º this morning, and inside temperatures were in the low 50’s. Praise the Lord for strengthening me to be able to get back to school this morning. I just let them sing in music class and didn’t teach them parts because of having a cough and not much of a voice. Wanted to save what voice I had for teaching the other classes. Took a fairly long nap this afternoon. Afterward I cut up a popo to have with bananas and currants for our fruit snack. Then I got busy in the schoolroom — erasing the chalkboard, writing lesson plans for tomorrow, writing math exercises on the chalkboard. After supper, I put dish water on right away so I could get the dishes done and get to the computer. But before I could get to the dishes, Mequ came with a bunch of bananas for us to buy, and then Kristina came with all of her children and brought a couple pieces of firewood and some avocadoes. Lois was with her too, and it was a joy to see her. Hadn’t seen her for a long time. After they left, the dishes finally got done. Then I started writing in journal and also sent and received e-mails. Later in the evening, I worked on the lesson in John. “17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.” Psalm 139:17,18 Oh, how precious! Oh, how great! Oh, how wonderful! Oh, how marvelous!
October 14. The night was cold, and the morning was chilly too. Somehow I all of a sudden got a full-blown head cold. I felt fine when I got up this morning, and still felt fine when school started. Before the first class had ended, however, I could feel the cold coming, and I did not feel well the rest of the day. It was only in the Lord’s strength that I was able to finish classes. Judy came to school with a bad cold, and Mike is sick with his stomach ailment again. He wasn’t in lotu yesterday. In music class, I tried to play the keyboard while the students sang “Jesus Loves the Little Children,” but five of the notes between middle C and low C no longer work so the keyboard music just doesn’t sound nice. It sounded much better when they sang it acapella. Then I am trying to teach them the parts to “How Can It Be?” but half the tenor and bass notes are among those that won’t play so I have to play them an octave higher or lower. We decided that it’s time to pray for a new keyboard. I was thankful that they had independent work to do for math and English so I could just relax. I sat and sewed while they were working and came to check on them every so often. It didn’t take them long to do their English lesson, and there was plenty of time left to read the missionary story, or so I thought. But when I finally thought to look at the clock, we were already over into science time. Decided to just go ahead and finish the story. After that, I was quite tired, and offered to let the students go home and just do science tomorrow. But they wanted to do science so I had them re-read the couple pages they read on Friday, and then we read them together and looked over the study exercises. While they were reading the science lesson themselves, I warmed up dinner so Daddy could eat, and I ate when science class was over and the students had left. Matthew came this morning and replaced the trim on the east side of the house. Trophimus helped him, and later Gibson came along and helped too. We are thankful to have that job done. There are still a lot of outdoor repairs that need to be done. Daddy thought he might be able to finish putting the plywood on our bedroom walls; and he took the drum in there to stand on so he could reach the top. He fixed a very small section that needed to be closed off and then measured another section so he could cut the plywood. That was all he could manage before he felt too weak. Looking up is not his cup of tea. Daniel came in to get a flex card while Daddy was working, and offered to come and help but couldn’t work on it today. Daddy was hoping to go out to SIL this week to have them install the Microsoft Professional in my computer. People were expecting SIL aviation to come in this week for coffee. Calls to aviation, however, revealed that they have a plane down and no mechanics available at present to fix it so they have canceled all local flights. It will probably be two or three weeks before they can get it fixed. When I lay down for nap around 2:00, I was so distraught that I could not sleep. I would either sneeze, or my nose would run, or I would get so stopped up that I couldn’t breathe. My ears and throat hurt so much that I could not get comfortable. It was hot, but the wind came up and was blowing on my head. I finally got up and put eardrops in my ears, hoping that would help. It did help a bit, but I was just so uncomfortable all over. When the wind came up, I go up again and shut the kitchen window and the back door, and then took a couple ibuprofen before lying back down; but I was too stopped up by then to be able to breathe. Got up again and got a couple blankets which I put under the head of the mattress so I could be propped up more. But that didn’t help enough to bring comfort and sleep. Finally I thought of onions. Daddy was already up by this time, and he cut up an onion for me and put it on my bedside stand. That helped so much and I was so thankful to get a little rest after that. It was already 3:30 by then, but I really needed to sleep; and I thank the Lord for allowing sleep to come. It was about 4:15, I think, when I did get up. That only gave me time for a drink and a fruit snack (which actually became part of my supper since it was nearly 5:00 by the time I finished eating the fruit). Daddy went and started the generator, and I put supper on the table. Put bath water on to heat while we were eating supper so I could get a bath while the evening was still warm. Then I put dish water on to heat and started writing tomorrow’s lesson plans while the water was heating. After washing dishes, I finished the lesson plans, and then wrote in my journal. “O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Psalm 136:26 October 15. (written on the 16th) Woke up this morning (the 15th) with chills. That signaled to me that I would probably get a fever later. Ate part of a dish of oatmeal, but couldn’t finish it. Didn’t feel too bad at first, but I soon knew that I would not be able to handle school today. After a while, I went back to bed, and there I stayed most of the day, although I could not sleep. I did not eat anything the rest of the day either. My stomach was upset, and I had a headache that got worse and worse as the day progressed. The fever came around noon with a high of 99.7º. Between the stomach ache, headache, and fever, I was so uncomfortable. I wasn’t able to take aspirin for the fever because we only have non-buffered aspirin which makes me really sick to my stomach even when I don’t feel so bad. I did take some willow which helped a bit, but the headache was still too severe to afford any rest. Also took some artemisinin (wormwood) in case I had malaria. Used up half of the activated charcoal that we had left (used four or five tablets) to try to settle the stomach. Finally late evening, the fever broke, and I was able to get some rest through the night. Praise the Lord! Monday will be Mom and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary! Praise the Lord for His wonderful goodness.
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October 13. The night was warm, and the day began with a little sunshine; but it wasn’t long before the skies turned cloudy, and the air turned cool. We have had rain most of the afternoon and evening, and it is quite chilly this evening. People were here early again for lotu so the meeting began on time. Amos felt well enough today to take care of the singing and other initial business. Then Daddy preached, covering the section on prayer in the discipleship material. Since Mike was sick today, he wasn’t here to preach the afternoon meeting; and Amos wasn’t up to handling it yet and Matthew wasn’t prepared, Daddy ended up preaching the afternoon meeting as well, beginning the section on reading and studying the word of God. Praise the Lord for giving him enough strength to preach both meetings. This evening, I wrote in my journal and worked on the next Bible lesson in the book of John, starting chapter 9. “O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Psalm 136:1
October 11. It has been a busy day, and I am tired this evening. The morning was foggy with a few sprinkles of rain. Later the sun came out, and the day was pleasant. MAF came in a little after noon to pick up passengers. We went about fifteen minutes overtime in Bible class this morning so we could finish up a lesson. There were a lot of verses to look up. I let the students choose whatever they wanted to sing in music class. They chose all new songs so that meant I had to sing for and then with them. I was thankful that my voice held out. I do enjoy singing, but my voice gets hoarse quickly. But I enjoy just listening to the students sing too. Their voices blend nicely together. I’m thankful the Lord gave us one of each type—soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. While the students were doing their math lesson, I started preparing dinner. Got rice ready to cook. Put the pumpkin in a pan too, the pumpkin I had cut up yesterday. Cut up some onion to cook with the fish and got out some herbs to sprinkle on it. There were two good-sized chunks of fish that pilot Paul’s wife left for Daddy to bring home. Before we started English class, I started the pumpkin and rice cooking and put the fish in the oven to bake. Had to run and check on the students a couple times during class. For science class, the students made their observations and conclusions on the potato experiment. Then they read the next section in science (just a couple short pages) and wrote the definitions for the two bold italicized words. While they were doing that, I set the table for six and put dinner on the table. Yesterday was Sunny’s birthday so we celebrated today with a birthday dinner. After dinner, Sunny filled up the washing machine so she can do laundry tomorrow. So I had to wait until she was done running water before I could rinse and/or soak the dinner dishes and pots and pans. Nap time at last. In spite of ole mister rooster crowing under our house for a while, we both enjoyed a good sleep. After nap, I washed, peeled, and cored an apple, and Daddy and I shared the apple and enjoyed it with some banana and cream. Then I graded the students’ math lessons that they finished today. Just after 4:30, I remembered that my tortillas were all gone so hurried to the kitchen to make some more for my supper. More dishes to wash, but that’s better than going hungry. 😊 After I finished washing up the day’s dishes, Daddy helped me hang up the bananas that Mata had brought today. She said that Amos’s hand was not improving so this morning Kelly cut it open again to drain out the infection. This is the fourth time, and it was very painful. They had to give him an injection of strong anesthetic. It has been probably two months now since he injured his hand, and it still has not healed. He hasn’t been able to preach or do much of anything else. Please pray for Amos to be healed and to stay well so he can fulfill his ministries in the church. Thanks! After doing dishes, I wrote in my journal and then took pleasure in a warm bath. After bath, I got a couple more weeks’ worth of journal notes ready to send to Connie. “Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.” Psalm 132:9 October 12. Another sunny day, and a very warm afternoon. There was a good number of folks in prayer lotu this morning. Most people have finished making their new gardens now. Others are almost done. After lotu, AnnaJean washed clothes; sorted, washed, and cut up greens and put them in the large pressure cooker; and swept the floors. I ate breakfast because I hadn’t gotten time to eat before lotu, finished prayer time, wrote an e-mail to C&C. When the computer ran out of power, I put it on to charge, made up the bed, and got out another sewing project. (Just before bed last night, I finished the last of the stitching of the pieces added to the bedsheet. So now it is ready to use.) Then I got out a few small onions and cut them up to sauté with meat to go on the rice leftover from yesterday; got out the small pressure cooker and put a little oil and butter in the bottom; got out the beef pieces that the pilot’s wife had given Daddy; and started sautéing the onions and browning the meat. Added some water, seasonings, and frozen baby tomatoes. They had grown up under the house, and Daddy picked them, and they got frozen in the fridge. Covered that and put both it and the greens on to cook. When the meat was done, I made a little gravy and mixed it all with the leftover rice for our dinner. I really enjoyed the meat pieces even though they had a fair amount of fat that couldn’t be chewed. Daddy, on the other hand, doesn’t enjoy that kind of meat. He asked what we should do with the rest of the meat. I said, “I’m going to eat it.” After dinner, we went out and brought in the clothes. Then I cleaned up the kitchen, and we had a nap. After nap, I washed my hair and fixed a fruit snack. Then I proofread the e-mail I wrote to C&C and put it in the outbox. Wrote one other small e-mail. Wrote in journal. Practiced keyboard. Then Daddy and I went outside for a while to get a little sunshine; just walked around the yard. When we came back in, it was supper time. Cut up a tomato and a cucumber and sliced some cheese. Daddy wanted a tomato and cheese sandwich. I put my cheese and tomato on a tortilla, sprinkled it with some basil and oregano, and heated it a bit in the little skillet to melt the cheese. Washed the dishes shortly after supper. Then printed out song sheets, new Bible lessons, and science quizzes. Finished up the last Bible lesson on Galatians chapter 1. Sent and received e-mails too. After bath and snack, I worked on future Bible lessons. “Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.” Psalm 135:3
October 9. The sun is coming up earlier these mornings since the passing of the autumnal equinox, and I have been waking up around 5:30 and getting up around 5:45 or so. Praise the Lord for a beautiful, fog-free morning again! A perfect day for Daddy’s flight home. Lotu started fairly early with about eight people which number gradually became 18 people. Matthew finished his message from Matthew 10:40-42 which he started on Sunday. We were able to start school around 8:15 which gave the students extra time again so they could have art class. And they even had time to go up to the airstrip when the plane came and help bring down cargo and oversee the others who brought cargo in. The plane didn’t come until after 10:30 because of plane trouble with one of the planes and having to wait for the other one to come down from Hagen. The students finished coloring their pictures today that they had traced and started coloring last week, and they hung their finished work on the class bulletin board. I tried to teach them how to do shading, but they didn’t quite get the idea of a gradual contrast. But I’m not grading their work, and we will try again on another picture next Wednesday if we can get an early start again with school. After Daddy came, I was back and forth between the classroom and the kitchen, checking on the students and at times guiding them with their work, loading up the freezer and getting some food put away, putting eggs on to boil (thankful that Daddy was able to get eggs in town). The students were ready to go home by a little after 12:00, and I warmed up leftover soup for Daddy’s and my dinner. Then we had a much-needed nap; and after nap, I organized and put away all the food that gets stored in the footlocker. I had already written tomorrow’s lesson plans and cleaned the chalkboard during school hours so didn’t have to do that in the afternoon. I did have to grade spelling and science lessons and write a few little math exercises on the chalkboard. Daddy filled the washing machine before supper and I sorted the clothes and put a load in to be washed. Daddy turned the generator on at 5:00. I made egg salad for our supper sandwiches and cut up a nice red tomato, one of several which Daddy bought in town. It made a nice change to our supper. Toward the end of our supper, I turned on the washing machine so the clothes could start agitating. I was thankful there was enough water to finish that load of clothes because right after that, when Daddy tried to refill the buckets, the water stopped running. We left the tap on though to see if it would eventually start running again. It didn’t for quite a while, and Daddy had just found someone to go carry a bucket of water for us when the water started running again. A clod of dirt or something must have gotten lodged in the pipe somewhere as the water was a little bit dirty when it first started coming through again. I had planned to wash dishes after I got the clothes hung and had had a few minutes sit down break. I put the dish water on to heat and then tried to send e-mail. Praise the Lord, Christy’s e-mail sent, but the connection was lost before the e-mails came in. Daddy was able to get the incoming e-mail later. Printed out tomorrow’s science quiz papers before I did the dishes. Then wrote in journal before having a snack. After that, I proofread the Galatians lesson I had just written and marked places for putting blanks on the student copy. Then I had a bath. “5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” Psalm 126:5,6 October 10. Another beautiful morning; but late this afternoon, the sky grew very dark, and the Lord sent us a good rain. The ground has needed it. I didn’t sleep well last night. My throat and ears were very sore, probably from having to answer the front door a couple times the past couple days before Daddy got home, at a time when the cold west wind was blowing in. (When Daddy is here, he takes care of the door most of the time, especially when the winds are strong. Otherwise, I get a bad sore throat and earaches.) Consequently, I did not feel well most of the day. I do thank the Lord for His grace and strength to see me through classes. I did cut classes a little bit short because I was getting quite tired, but the lessons we were working on were completed, and I didn’t really want to start something new. The students enjoyed doing an experiment for science class. They had to cut a large potato in half, dig a well in each half, put fresh water in one well and very salty water in the other. Then they are to look at the results and make conclusions tomorrow. As soon as the students left, we had lunch, and then a nap. I was grateful for a pretty good sleep at nap time. After nap, I graded the students’ spelling tests and science quizzes, erased the chalkboard, got a gift bag together for Sunny’s birthday (it was today, but we will celebrate tomorrow), cut up, peeled, cored, and diced up a pumpkin and put the pieces in a plastic bag to go in the fridge and be cooked tomorrow for the birthday dinner. Then I just sat and relaxed a short while until supper time because I wasn’t feeling well. After supper, I did the dishes, printed out a song (Jesus Loves the Little Children), read the e-mails that Daddy got in while I was doing dishes, wrote some tenor and bass parts for the song, and then wrote in my journal. It took up most of the rest of the evening to get all the note changes for the song made in the computer file. I’m thankful that is done as it is a very tedious task.
October 7. Saw the moon amongst the clouds before bed last night. This morning was quite cool — some blue sky and white puffy clouds, but a lot of thunderheads forming and very chilly winds blowing. Warmer and calmer winds this afternoon and warmer this evening. In science class, the students have started studying the unit on life. Five characteristics of life given in the chapter are responding to stimuli, taking in material from the environment, growth, reproduction, and death. I thought it made an interesting comparison to the church, a living organism, the body of Christ. Christ’s body, if alive, should respond to stimuli—preaching, singing, reading the word, praying, the working of the Holy Spirit; it should take in material from the environment—eating the word, drinking the water of the word, breathing oxygen – the Holy Spirit’s work of filling our lives; it should be growing and reproducing. When these characteristics are no longer seen in the church, the church dies. It no longer has life. I shared that comparison with the students to help them see that there are applications for the Christian life from true science. This afternoon, I wrote in my journal, wrote an e-mail to Pat K and sent it off and got e-mails in, finished writing tomorrow’s lesson plans, answered the door a couple times wrote up a quiz for the next lesson on Galatians, and started on the lesson to come after that. Took a bath right after supper. Then worked on sewing the sheet until Daddy called. Enjoyed the time chatting with my best friend. Then I got a snack, came back to the computer, and spent more time on the next Galatians lesson. “I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.” Psalm 119:162 October 8. A special day—Christy’s spiritual birthday. Thank you, Lord, for Christy. The moon was visible again before bed last night. Woke up around 5:45 to a blue-sky, fog-free morning. Sun was shining brightly and is far enough south now that it was shining into the back porch, and I was able to open the back door by 7:00. Around 4:30 this afternoon, the skies grew dark, and there was thunder off in the distance. Put phone on to charge before getting breakfast, and put computer on to charge after breakfast. School went well today, but I had a little mishap in the kitchen. The students were working on their math lesson so it was a good time to get some other things done. Needed to boil some eggs for sandwiches so put four eggs in a pan and set them on to boil. Then I started cleaning the freezer so it will be ready when Daddy brings home the groceries. When I finished, there were still five minutes left before the eggs would be done so I went to check on the students and see if anyone needed any help. To my surprise, three of them had already completed their lesson, and the fourth was done a couple minutes later. Okay, lots of time left to start on the new lesson. With that on my mind, I completely forgot about the eggs until about twenty minutes past their peak time. Oh, oh! Hurried to kitchen and quickly turned off the burner. All the water had boiled out, and four cracked, burnt eggs lay in the bottom of the pan. Oh, my, what shall I do now? I wasn’t about to throw out four eggs and waste them. So I peeled the worst looking two the best I could and ate them for snack. Mashed the other two later and made egg salad for supper. After school, Dallas and Mike chopped firewood. I had my nap, and then wrote a spiritual birthday wishes e-mail to Christy. Tried to send it; but, even though it kept saying “connecting,” it only completed the connection once, but not long enough to send the e—mail. While I was waiting for it to try to send, I finished grading the students’ math lessons and finished writing lesson plans for tomorrow. After shutting down the computer and putting it on to charge again, I cleaned the chalkboard and wrote some math exercises on the chalkboard for tomorrow. Then I cleaned the bathroom sink and toilet. By then, the computer was recharged so wrote in my journal, tried again to send the e-mail but no connection. Wrote in journal while I was waiting. Afterward, I made up the science quiz for unit 2-B. Put dish water on to heat while I was eating supper, and bath water on to heat while I was washing dishes. After bath, I had a little over a half hour to work on the computer before Daddy called. Worked on the next Galatians lesson. Then enjoyed about a half hour chat with Daddy. After we hung up, I put the computer back on the charger, had a snack, and finished stitching the first side piece that I had added to the brown bedsheet. Once the computer was recharged, I finished writing in my journal and then finished the last Galatians lesson on chapter one. |
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