Giant pink moth later eaten by a tanager

We receive regular emails from a friend who works with a people group in Northern Ontario. Her emails are so often filled with hope that it makes me cry and gives me hope. Another set of friends here also send emails that speak of God's faithfulness in their lives. This week we have received many emails that have encouraged us that staying here is a good decision. God does work in us and often through the lives of those around us. Thank you to those who have allowed God to use you.

Wacky Definitions

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some of the 2005 winners:

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

Giraffiti: Vandalisim spray-painted very high.

Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

Arachnoleptic fit: The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Caterpallor: The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.


PS: 5 eggs today!

Happy May 1!

Monday morning. May 1. A beautiful, sunny day. We're about to start school. The boys are checking on the chickens and Bronwyn is finishing her breakfast. Simon is cleaning out the dog cage and our working guest is ready to start building a new chicken coop for the neighbour's chickens that are right now sharing our coop. Have a good day.

It's been a long time

I had no idea it had been so long since I last wrote. Oops.

• Keanan's forehead is beautifully displayed in all its accidental glory--the lower "wound" is from contact with a hockey stick, the upper from a flying stone. No need to mention from whose hand the stone flew. These within 3 days of each other. He played hockey well and fortunately in the case of the stone, we had a visitor who is well versed in the ways of applying pressure to cuts, having had lots of personal experience. (Ev, you get to guess who it was.) Keanan hardly even cried.
  
  So, due to electrical friends who love us, we now have lights throughout the camp in obscure places like the workshop and the camp dining room. They're flying home early tomorrow morning. We'll miss them. I wonder what tomorrow will hold. Three people who are here helping at camp are leaving tomorrow. The place will be quiet. As if in response, the clouds are crying today.
  
  Bronwyn is making shortbreak cookies. Keanan is making stacks with the measuring cups. Cai has gone over to the gym to find some futbol action with the current group of young adults. We have a guest sitting in our hammock chair reading a book; she's had a busy week doing a medical mission into the "jungle." An 8-hour hike over a mountain. She was pretty tired when she got back!
  
  The kids will enter school for the month of May on the 7th. They should get a good dose of people and Spanish. They'll be in the same school they attended while Simon and I were in language school so they'll each have either a teacher or a friend in their class that they know. I'll get to work on my Spanish with a tutor and some friends who are eager to help with practice.
  
  This week's projects:
• a new chicken coop for the neighbour's 8 hens that are currently living with our 10. We're up to 2 eggs a day, but not sure if they come from the 8 or the 10.
• varnishing decks
• woodcutting
• dreaming of making small group areas
• more organizing of the bodega to make it more usable

Happy Easter

Christ the Lord is risen today, Hallelujah!

And the bunny showed up too. Chocolates all around.

We are expecting friends today. What fun. Plus we get to pick up another friend at the airport this afternoon. She is coming to stay for a month to help around camp.

Enjoy your day!

Where does it go?

It could lead you anywhere. Where do you think you'll end up? What's around the corner?

Saved

The chickens were on the brink of arroz con pollo. They managed to save themselves by producing three eggs. Whew! I was out of eggs. Cute little eggs. Tiny.

By the way, have I ever explaimed what arroz con siempre means? It's another name for arroz con pollo (rice with chicken). Arroz con pollo is a staple at each and every function. Therefore it is siempre (always) there.

I am writing a newsletter while I wait for this to upload. Look for it to come to your ebox soon. Also I'm going to try to set up a link on this blog to the newsletters. Wish me luck! Computers and I don't always get along.