So, anybody notice a few things missing? 

Many things were donated to the girl across the street.She had a garage sale to pay for her mission trip.Missions have changed since I was a kid.She wants to go to an orphanage run by Lutherans in Jamaica.She will work there for free for a year.HOWEVER, she has to pay her own way down there(flight) plus $400 a month room and board.Never mind that she is working for free.geeze louise…………. She needs $4000 more to stay/work at the orphanage for a year.

So, she had a garage sale to raise money and all the neighbors, friends and people from her church donated items to sell.She made $1600……..woo hooo!And I got the spare room back It’s not perfect but now Sum can move off the couch and I can get some other things done.Yes, the center of the room is completely empty.Any suggestions for my next project?

This is what I have been up to lately.I call it the before.I will put up the *after* when Blips takes it off the camera. (I don’t know how to do that).

We have a second bedroom upstairs, next to the master bedroom.Normally, the door stays closed.I think only 5 people have seen the inside.Sum, Asha, Els, Mar, Sam and Mir.Ok, that makes six.Seven if you count Mona although I am not sure how much she actually saw from her level.I had always called it the spare bedroom, since it had no real function…..it was just extra.Sum renamed it from spare room to scary room.She said things go in there and are never seen again.Blips was opposed to that name, so after awhile I quit using it, even though I thought it quite accurate.So, here is an amature panorama from the doorway looking left and then across the room.In airplane talk, it would be 9 o’clock to 3 o’clock.

See why I had no time to blog?

ohhhhhhhhhhh I miss everybody, so I am back.

I have had very little time to give attention to the computer, so I read everybodys blog quick or look at the pictures and enjoy them and then have to be gone.Well, I miss not being able to listen to everybodys comments about our life here….so I am back and will try to give any extra minutes to our life here in Minnesota.

The other day I was at the Mississippi Market Co-op and was sorting through the peaches and something familiar caught my side vision.I turned to see who it was that “seemed” familiar and it was Garrison Keilor sorting through the lettuce.I knew he lived in the neighborhood and hadbeen to his bookstore about 3 blocks from the co-op.Everybody was just leaving him alone to shop like a normal person.I passed him later in another isle and not wanting to stare at him I looked down.Looking down caused me to look directly in his basket which had Breyer’s ice cream on the top.Oh how I would have loved to sit outside with two spoons on the bench and had a conversation with him while we ate from the box

The other day I was talking to Asha and after a minute I noticed her hair was quite a bit shorter.She has not cut it since third grade so I was quite shocked.She told me she had given her hair to Locks of Love.This is an organization that takes real hair and makes them into wigs for kids that have bald heads, mostly from cancer treatment.She donated her hair in honor of her uncle David who just beat cancer.I don’t think she will allow me to put a picture of her here…..so here is a picture I found on the net.It is of Amanda who just donated her pony tail also.This was about how long Asha’s hair was before and after.After stealing Amanda’s picture, I clicked on the link that gave me the picture.It was a website of a young woman fighting cancer, her name is Asha.holy cow!Her web is http://ashamevlana.com