BYGTWSO!-Day 9

Didn't photograph anything. Swimming again! Had the pool all to myself again, even though I headed down there later than usual. I spent more time in the morning doing housework and paperwork. I have this responsibility with the women at church and so I spent time taking care of that.

K picked me up at the pool so we could head over to our garden and nurture it. It's really doing okay considering we haven't touched it for two weeks. We weeded a little and lifted the leaves of the tomato plants up over the next wire of the cage, helping them to reach skyward to their eternal destination. The corn is growing like weeds. I've heard other people in the neighborhood say this, but I'll say it again: what an amazing thing it is to put a seed in the ground and witness its growth! It really is mind-blowing. I'm reminded of a potluck dinner I attended in college at the home of one of my Nigerian friends. There were people there from several continents and so there were many types of food brought to the table. In the midst of dinner, Sunday (that's the name of this Nigerian friend) proclaimed with a huge grin on his face, "God is GREAT!!! We have come from many lands and yet, God has provided food for each person in his own country!" Yes, God is GREAT!!!

We met up with one of God's creatures in our garden, quite territorial it would seem. It's a spider about the size of a quarter and it was marching around, fairly angry, at the disturbances we were causing. It climbed on K's wrist, but did not bite. I'm not really sure what a wolf spider looks like, but the name "Wolf" seemed fitting.

We had sandwiches for lunch and then I headed off to my pedicure. The color I chose this time is "The Thrill in Brazil." It's red, but I wasn't choosing red. I was choosing the name of the polish. I bought liptick once because the color was called "Canyon." It spoke to me.

After that pedicure we set about doing laundry, sorting old papers, and preparing for camping. These little jobs on this short list ended up taking an enormous amount of time. We always knew we had stuff to do at home, but now that we're home and doing it, we realize better that there's a LOT of stuff to do at home. We'll keep chipping away at it. Until we get distracted by something else.

NEWS FLASH!!! We watched a DVD together! I've had this DVD from Netflix sitting here since March. That was over three months ago! We just haven't been home to sit down and watch a movie. While we watched, I was ironing and K was shredding papers, but we really enjoyed it. It's called Martian Child. It's about love and adoption.

And thus ends my ninth day of summer vacation. I'm enjoying myself. Hope you are too!