Today I’ve been working on my newsletter.  And resting.  I didn’t realize just how tired I was.  Sure was glad I didn’t have any pressing appointments this morning!

I was outside this morning when I got a call from Kathy.  She was working with the refugee babies in Clarkston and needed me to come help get a window open in her room.  I knew that that old church building had probably been painted at least ten times over the years.  They normally don’t ever open the windows, they just paint over them.  I got all my tools together and went to check on the situation.  Sure enough a lot of paint!  Unfortunately, to get to the outside frame to break the seal you had to open up the storm windows.  And you couldn’t open the storm windows unless the painted shut windows could open!  So no go.  Bahd luck.

Plan B!  There’s a door into the room that leads to the outside.  We were able to block that door open and they had a little security fence so that the babies couldn’t get out.  Voila!  The solution!  Glad that worked out ok.

I took the girls (Ashley was out of class by that time) over to Madina to eat some roast goat.

Actually the girls got Chicken Chop Chop.  J and I feasted on the Oromo platter.  It’s always fun to have the whole family together!

I dropped the girls back at their car and Jesse and I went over to Staples to pick up the supplies I needed for the newsletter and over to the Post Office to pick up, you guessed it! Stamps!

They told me that the stamps were going up to .44c in May.  They also explained to me that there’s a law now that the PO cannot increase the stamps except once a year.  That’s why they started the Forever stamps.

My plants are doing better outside.  I thought I’d killed my beautiful beugonia.  Starting to come back!

Had a nice rest this afternoon!  I’ll put the finishing touches on my newsletter tomorrow morning, then take the envelopes to the mission tomorrow to get some help from the kids!