July 3. Very cold this morning—53º. It was a long time before the house warmed up. We were thankful for the warmth of the sunshine. The time to sing during music class was also helpful in warming up the body as well as warming the soul. Mike was back to class today, but Taqita did not come. She was hurting too much after that long walk, but she will have the weekend to recover now. After school, Mata filled the washing machine; Elise cut up greens that I had washed; Mike and Dallas filled the small diesel drum. Because of all that was going on after school, it was 2:30 before we lay down for nap, and 3:45 when I got up. I was so grateful for a good rest as I had not slept well last night. To start with, I was having a hard time getting warm. Then the rat made all kinds of rat-cket. After getting up a couple times to see what the rat was into, I was having trouble breathing so that made it hard to get back to sleep. A funny thing happened, though, the first time I got up. I knew the rat was either in the storage closet/pantry or in the bathroom after the soap. Sure enough, the soap had a couple little bites out of the end so I put the soap in the bathtub where the rat can’t get to it. The rat came up from behind the sink counter, poked his head out, and looked around. I hollered at him, and he took off running. Bold rat! He was kind of cute and looked rather skinny, but I still wasn’t too happy about his presence and commotion during the middle of the night. Today, when I wasn’t teaching or helping in a class, I worked on the lessons on church leadership. With the short time that was left after nap until supper, I worked on painting. This evening, I printed out copies of Pidgin I Thessalonians through Hebrews for Daddy and me to proofread together. July 4. Didn’t need to get up early this morning so slept in until it was a bit lighter out. It is still rather dark at 6:00 these days, and will be until the sun works its way back to the southern hemisphere. After breakfast, I sorted the clothes and got them ready for Sunny to wash. She came just before 8:30. After doing the laundry, she swept the floors, refilled all the buckets, and ground some rice and corn. For my dinner, I decided to make some corn biscuits with cheese filling. I had to sift the ground corn as it was obvious that it had a lot of chaff in it, and it had quite a bit more chaff than I realized—must have been about 80% or more chaff. The good that I was able to sift out went into the corn biscuits along with the whole wheat flour. The rest went into the garbage. I don’t think we’ll bother to buy and dry more corn. It isn’t worth it for the little bit of good that comes out of it. The biscuits did taste good. Daddy still had leftover spaghetti for his dinner While Sunny was working this morning, I did some more revising of the lessons on church leadership. This afternoon, I washed my hair and then painted until supper time. It took a long time just to do one flower and get the colors blended right. This evening, I was able to finish the last flower and part of the flower that was in the background.
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