2010 Week 35

We are still enjoying summer weather and food. I attempted to copy a salad our host prepared for our first meal in Hondarribia, with added avocado.

 The week was consumed with everything involved in teaching a Spanish course at Ivy Tech: mountains of the paperwork; gathering materials; setting up an area for all the stuff; lesson planning; driving 40 minutes each way twice a week; and the actual class time interacting with the students--by far my favorite!

I thought I had neglected the one-a-day photo project, but it seems there are more than enough pictures to illustrate our week.

Sunday we celebrated Dad and Mother's 68th anniversary.

While there in the Retirement Dining Room, a very special person from my past came up to me--the dean of women when I was a student at Grace College. She is almost 93 and her husband 95!

And, hear this, they were married six years ago! Eons ago they had dated a year and a half when they were in Bible college until someone else came along and swept her off her feet. After 46 happy years and three daughters, Miriam became a widow. Twenty years later she remarried. How's that story for a Hallmark movie?

My drive to Ivy Tech takes me right by son Sam's workshop. It's fun to drop in, chat, meet his guys. I was very impressed with all the equipment he has acquired for his business--SAM'S CUSTOM WOODWORKING.

He would not get in the picture so one of his guys stood in for him. Ha! In the back part of the warehouse is the huge skateboarding bowl. The last time I remember stopping by was a Saturday morning 8 a.m. and already there was a group skating the bowl--fathers and sons, old timers sharing their love of the sport with their young'uns!

This week the DIL's book came out--Hope for the Barren Heart. I was soooooo excited and happy for her. Did you know that 12% of the population is affected by infertility? I didn't.

Last night we watched this interesting video in anticipation of another farewell celebration tomorrow at our church: Jay Kesler's pastoral legacy at Upland Community Church. We are so blessed to have Jay and Janie as neighbors and have enjoyed his preaching ministry very much. This is his third retirement, at least. Will it be the last?

I don't think this looks very much like him, though.

Nor does the next photo capture what I saw initially. The hummingbird feeder we love to watch out of our den window, was momentarily on fire, lit up by the setting sun.

Speaking of fire--I went by the mail box today at noon, it was open and this is what I saw:

On closer inspection, the policeman and I found scraps of notebook paper among the ashes. The mail was delivered later.