Day: April 22, 2005

Estamos muy animados tener a Mina aqui en Los Estados Unidos. Especialmente porque ya puede decir que ha estado en la tierra prometida de Oregon!!!

Este noche, Lorena habia planeado tener una fiesta de algo se llama Pampered Chef. Es una junta que es MUY de la moda aqui en Los Estados Unidos ahorita. Todas las senoras se junta para chismear, reir, comer, y hablar de comida. Esta bien padre. Mina vino con Marta para ver los implementos que esta vendiendo una de la Senoras que esta involucrado en eso se llama Sandra Ramey. Sandra tiene una hija que es sierva, una hija viviendo en Nuevo Zelandia con su esposo de alli, y un hijo que esta en el naval trabajando un submarinos contra del terrorismo bajo del mar. Son muy buena honda. Es una de las familias con larga historia como entregados aqui en este parte de Los Estados Unidos. Voy a poner mas fotos y cuentos cuando los tengo!!!

We went over to Heather Eblen’s house last Sunday for lunch after the fellowship meeting on Sunday morning. Heather’s computer is on its last legs. It is about 13 years old and loaded with memory, but just does not have enough juice in the processor to run Windows XP. The IT department where I work throws away old computers they cannot use and that are not powerful enough to donate to schools. I asked them for one and they were happy to give it to me. I will load it up with Ubuntu Linux and get it onto their cable modem today and tomorrow. All Heather really does is email, websurfing, and letter writing. This will be great for that. She will have plenty of memory to everything she needs to do. Right now, I think there is 128 megabytes of memory, but I think she has 256 on her computer at home, so all I will have to do is trade the memory out and she will be off and running.

Sandra Ramey will be coming over tonight to lead a Pampered Chef party that we will host at our house. Our neighbors across the street, Gina (the mother of Hannah, Jacob, and Halley) along with Alexa who owns a couple local rental stores, Martha and her mother Mina, and Lorena will all attend. They have such a great time together and Pampered Chef really does have some cool stuff. Christian and I are going to hang out in the bonus room and play FreeCiv on our little two computer network if we can figure out how to get the computers to talk to each other.

Donna Floyd’s mother Selma Sterling died a couple of days ago, so I called Al and Michele (granddaughter) Rizos and Ron and Donna. We had a great talk on the phone. Donna has been a real pillar in dealing with her mother and in speaking with Donna, it sounds like Ron was a super help, too. I hope this frees Ron and Donna up enough that they can come up and visit us now. It would have been great to have them with us this year at the ski trip.

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