Busy Days

The past couple of days have been really busy. We seem to finally be hitting our stride with accomplishments. We have taken over the all-purpose room for our sewing. So far I have set up all of the machines we brought and made sure they are working correctly, and checked two of the machines that are already here and succeeded in getting one of them working. I also altered three aprons to better fit the diminutive size of the sweet ladies that are cooking for us. Dawn has put together several quilt tops, so that project is moving right along. The rest of the ladies have been working in various areas including helping in the baby house, pulling weeds, and helping the guys with the re-terracing project. At the end of the day yesterday the guys from our team offered Tony the friendly challenge that if they were able to get all of the blocks moved and laid by 3 pm today, Tony owed us ice cream, and if we didn't succeed we owed him ice cream. At 2:45 pm Max came flying into the main house to announce that the job was done, so Tony owed us. He was very happy about that, as he really wanted to get in on a soccer game this afternoon. The soccer game took precedence even over taking a shower. Montezuma seems to have subsided for most of us, though Norm was sick again, albeit not and bad as earlier in the week, and Sarah has had a few episodes. Tonight there is a rousing game of Bananagrams going on, and a couple of the ladies are still sewing.  There's pizza in the oven for an evening snack, and I expect that we will all be happy to hit the hay tonight after a couple of long days.