Do You Realize It's Already JULY?!!

I was checking my bank statement last night and was surprised by the balance. Then I realized it was a new month and our social security had already been deposited! It's pretty bad when the city was celebrating the fourth of July yesterday and it hadn't dawned on me that we'd moved into another month... I am sure it's because I've been so busy, not because there is any mental deterioration on my part.

It was another busy day today, starting again with a delegate session at 8 AM and ending up with us back at the hotel by 11 PM. With Iris, I gave the report on the Spanish Language Intiative to the delegates this morning. It was going well until I looked down and could see myself in the TV monitor right in front of the podium (they were showing events on the stage over two large TV screens on the front walls). It momentarily startled me, but I think I recovered okay -- I just made sure that I didn't look down again!

Our flight back to Spokane doesn't leave until 7 PM tomorrow night (we won't get back to the ranch until way after midnight!), so we should have a quiet day tomorrow. We've been talking about going to the zoo, but we'll wait to see how ambitious we might be tomorrow.

I'm So Thankful it's Friday!

And our Canadian youth group visitors are returning to Manitoba early in the morning! They drove three days in their bus to get here and now face three days of driving to get back home. They've worked hard while they were here, so they should be able to sleep on the bus. I know that their energy has wore us all out!

The next two pictures are at house #4 where they are putting in the floor and pouring the cement for the porches:

The next one is of the hillside at house #2 where the girls planted "red apple," a type of ice plant:

We had a strange experience early this afternoon. We were driving down Avocado Avenue in El Cajon on our way to a Home Depot and Walmart when we ran into a police traffic stoppage. There were 20-25 policemen there on both sides and in the middle of this busy four lane street; squad cars, motocycles, and unmarked cars -- and of course, TV crews -- parked everywhere. Traffic was backed up for more than a mile on each side. They were questioning everyone to try to find anyone who had driven the same route at about the same time a week ago last Friday and could have been a witness to "a shooting in the area."

When we came back that way a couple of hours later, everything was back to normal and there wasn't a policeman to be seen. I guess we'll never know what they were looking for.