It was an interesting day. The night before I had made some apple cake from a recipe that Susie gave me. I needed a bit more than it made, so I half-ed the recipe again. Instead of 2 cups - 3 cups etc. Well.....I think the pan was too small. After the hour of baking I took it out and it looked fine. When I came back about a 30 minutes later it was all sunk. I put a butter knife in the center and came back with dough -- not good. So I baked it again and the interesting thing was - it rose a little again.
On Tuesday morning I had planned to give it to the nine people who wash cars every Tuesday. I did not have any banana's for banana bread, so I decided the apple cake would do and that was -- interesting. I did hand the man in charge 100 cedis to get some fruit to go with it.
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| No bad, but not perfect either |
When I glanced at my phone, I saw that Sister Jack needed bean bags for her library school kids -- in one hour. I ran into the spare room and picked up some squares I had, to sew into bean bags. I sewed around the edges without turning anything inside. just sewed up squares filled them with rice and sewed up the last end. 45 minutes later, I ran them over to the area office and waited just a bit in the lobby to hand them off.
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| 16 bean bags (made out of rice) in 45 minutes |
All my girls had decided on a book to read in November that they wanted to discuss over zoom.
Well, I had decided to skim over the first few chapters and see what kind of read it would be. And I got sucked right into Christina Soontornvat's story "All Thirteen the incredible cave rescue of the Thai boy's soccer team". Mind you, this is a story I already knew the end of - as I heard it on the news. The whole world was praying for them. So anyway I get into the first few chapters and wanted to just finish the book.
But it isn't that kind of day......
First Patricia and her son came over to get the materials to make more stockings for the area office employees. I smiled as I gave them lunch and chatted while helping her cut up the material into workable lengths.
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| Patricia and her son chat with me, and I give them lunch |
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| Patricia cutting the fabric into workable lengths |
While they were here, Lawrence and a couple of others came by to fix the toilet. Actually he brings a brand new toilet to put in. Now I have two sets of persons in my house. (And a book just waiting)
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| Lawrence with the dirty job! |
It took a couple of hours before Patricia was finished.
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| Patricia's son while she is cutting out materials |
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| Old toilet is gone, and the source of the problems (an old seal that had slipped) was found. |
Lawrence had to get another part for the new toilet from another town, so that took a little time.
Patricia is done and they set off. I sneak away to read the book again....until Lawrence comes back with the new part. I took some pictures - but - did I really need to stick around? I did feel a little guilty going off to the kitchen to read while he was laboring so hard to get it set up right.
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| New one set up and everything cleaned up. |
I read that book straight through the minute the last person left. I loved the book and was especially grateful that she took the effort to show just how many, many people were involved in the rescue of those boys. I was sad again about the one man who died, but looking at the whole thing through the author's eyes, you can see where quite a few tragedies were averted because of the prayers, and aid of so many people along with God's grace.
Luckily we had plenty of leftovers for Jeffrey when he came home from work. Life works out nicely sometimes. Good things were accomplished it was an interesting day.
