a regular day

Breakfast at 7 am: Scrambled eggs, toast, buttered oatmeal, fruit juice and pork sausage seasoned by moi! Then it’s clean up and a little writing time. I did a little laundry and straightened up our room. We are comfortable in our place. It’s an upstairs apartment that occasionally houses missionary families but it’s not occupied now except by Byron and me. It’s cool and comfy and we are sleeping well there.

Gayle fixed lunch while I started supper. Homemade spaghetti sauce with pasta, fresh garden salad with olive oil vinaigrette, buttery toasted French bread, with homemade apple walnut cake and real whipped cream for dessert. All in all, I’d say it was a yummy meal. I found the cake recipe in an old church cookbook of Gayle’s and even though it is easy, it is a tasty recipe. Here it is:

Apple Walnut Cake

4 C coarsely chopped apples 2 C all purpose flour

2 C sugar 2 tsp baking soda

2 eggs 2 tsp cinnamon

½ C vegetable oil ½ tsp salt

2 tsp vanilla 1 C chopped walnuts

Combine apples and sugar; let stand. Beat eggs slightly. Beat in oil and vanilla. Mix flour with baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Pour egg mixture and flour mixture into bowl with apples. Mix very well. Bake at 350 about 1 hour in a 9 X 13 pan. Serve with homemade whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

The guys came in about 5:30 cleaned up and came to the house to wait for supper. A few of them checked emails and tried to call home and another couple of them dozed off on the couch for a little cat nap before our meal.

I set the food out, Byron asked the Lord’s blessing on it and we ate. During the meal and afterward there was great conversation and lots of laughter and later more attempts at communicating with home. Someone put in a comedy video and we enjoyed Tim Conway and his humor.

Bedtime came soon for us as we went to bed a little early. Early for me, anyway. Even I can’t believe it. But I’ve worked hard thus far and by that time of night, I’m ready to call it a day.

I hope most days will be pretty uneventful but good, and that the work progresses smoothly. It seems that will be the way most progress will be made and our time here will be most productive.

But the people who trust the Lord will become strong again. They will rise up as an eagle in the sky; they will run and not need rest; they will walk and not become tired. Isaiah 40:31

We just keep walking…

Suz