Slow Week

There hasn't been much family news to report this week. I've only heard from Andrew and Laura one short email. They did say they were enjoying staying at a hotel that Miguelina had arranged for them. I believe at about this hour they are flying out of DR to St. Louis for a few days with college friends before back to work in Honduras.

I haven't heard much from David either, but I think he's taking exams at the end of his latest block. He did say he's getting some new couches delivered from Ikea today since he gave his botique ones to a Ugandan friend of his roommate who had none. "That's what you're supposed to do with Wyco furniture, isn't it?" he said.

Rachel has had a good week with sub jobs and babysitting. She's thinking about planning to deliberately not do subbing on Wednesdays, and use that day for laundry and two other babysitting jobs. It is looking like she can easily get at least 3 sub jobs per week, but some of them are only half days. Her pay for babysitting is actually more than for subbing in most cases.

Gary and I are trying to write a newsletter. Gary finds that kind of writing exceeding slow and difficult. Now if you asked him to write an academic paper, that's not quite so hard. :-) While I'm waiting for him to finish his part, I'm cleaning up mailing addresses, etc.

The weather has cooled somewhat, but it still is too warm to enjoy being outside in the middle of the day. Gary mowed the lawn last Saturday with our 3-wheeled backup mower. He has to hold it up while he pushes it. Our "good" mower isn't working, though we tore it apart and put it back together. We're afraid it will cost more to have it repaired than we paid for it. :-(