Yesterday when I came home from work Ginny showed me a simple recipe for cookies. She asked me if she could bake them. She found the recipe in a book. It was about a missionary names Lottie Moon. Lottie Moon is famous in Baptist churches. She lived in China. Every Christmas an offering is taken up in her name.
Ginny made the cookies. In fact, she doubled the recipe. We didn’t have any cream. I told her to just use milk. The cookies were very crumbly and wouldn’t hold together. But they were still good.
Mary Ann’s H4H Photos
It began raining outside at about 4:30am.
I took about 500 pictures on the Habitat For Humanity trip. I’m still sorting through them and writing in captions for each picture. I just got an email from Mary Ann. She has her pictures on this website She took about 150 pics.
Back To Work
I return to my normal routine today. Stacey is driving in our carpool.
I had the opportunity to take a picture with the homeowner and a range. The range was packaged like we always package them so its from Tulsa. I also got to describe some of the different parts of the range to a young woman engineer from Michigan who took the picture.
I met many interesting and successful people in Arizona. That was the funnest part.
Building Blocks 2007: Tulsa Team
The Tulsa Manufacturing Plant sent five volunteers to the build.
–Brian, an engineer and his wife, Debbie
They worked on House #9.
–Mary, RACAL Laboratory
She worked on House #5.
–Gisy, an industrial engineer
She worked on House #2.
–Linda (me), Manufacturing Line #4
I worked on House #7
We put in more than 40 hours of work on our houses. On our time off we enjoyed fine dining, fun and rest.
Building Blocks 2007 Facts
You need to know the basic facts of this major endeavor.
–This is a joint effort by Whirlpool and Habitat For Humanity
–This is the second annual event
–This time 9 homes were built in 4 1/2 days
–The 9 homes were built in Guadaloupe, AZ
–300 volunteers participated
Building Blocks 2007: Valley of the Sun
The Pheonix Metropolitan Area is known as the Valley of the Sun. The first time I remember hearing this was during the opening ceremony when Christine Odom spoke the phrase as she introduced herself as the CEO of Habitat For Humanity for the Pheonix area.
Building Blocks 2007: First Day
Day one was the longest day of all the week. Everyone was eager to work. We were all rested since the week has just begun. At breakfast peptalks from the leaders inspired us even more.
Home From Building Blocks 2007
This past week has been full of working hard and staying busy. It’s been more than a 40 hour week. On the other hand, I’ve been staying at a resort where I’ve been able to relax, go swimming, enjoy the lovely setting around me and endulge in fine dining.
Building Blocks 2007: Day of Departure
It’s the day of departure for me. Look out Pheonix, Arizona here I come. Ginny is lying next to me with her head on my arm as I write this. I’ve been checking the weather in Pheonix. It’s going to 100 degrees when I get there! And then it’s going to be about the same all week long. This is different from our humid but not so hot Oklahoma spring days.
Java Plantation Imports
My husband is the webmaster of a site called Homeschool Buy. Each month he writes a newsletter. This month he asked a friend, Chris, that he has been in contact with since they went to high school together (about 30 years ago) to write about his business and offer some internet auction selling tips. His story is an interesting one.
Linda's Thoughts 