This morning has been a little less busy. We have had breakfast a little later this morning. Then we took turns reading Psalms 119 and Proverbs 24. After breakfast we cleaned up and got to meet thier dog Snickers. Snickers is a funny dog; she doesn't really like people she doesn't know. So, the McMaths wanted her to get used to me. Now with most people Snickers wont let them pet her until she's been alone with them for at least a week. So I thought bribing her might be a good idea. Elk jerky did the trick. She was still really skittish, but with Mrs. McMath there she let me pet her. Later this evening she even came over near me (before she wouldn't get anywhere close.) The McMaths all agreed that it was the quickest she had warmed up to anyone.
But I'm getting ahead of myself, the rest of the morning I had to myself (which gave me the opportunity to catch up on some things, so I was grateful). Naomi was working with her College Plus student calls and the rest of the family was busy shopping or visiting church members in the hospital. At around 1pm Naomi and I headed over to the church, where we met Naomi's good friend, Jacqueline (age 27) and her little sister Brianna (age 8)who is a sweet girl who loves to read especially the bible. Jacqueline and I put up wall words and Bri helped. I must admit it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. In all the buildings the walls are textured and some are mountainous. One of the walls was so textured it looked just like NM from the air, same color too. :) Just kidding not all of NM is brown, there is quite a bit of green in many patches. Anyway, we did find the secret to keeping the wall words on the wall, it's called Mod Podge. It's like a tacky glue substance that dries clear. We were really glad to have it; I don't think the wall words would last the night without it. After that I helped Naomi put away some school books and then write the children's names on each of their school workbooks. All of that took us about 4 hours; 3 of them were on the wall words. :)
Then we went home and I helped prepare dinner with Rachel and Mrs. McMath while Naomi and Luke preped for their guitar lessons. After dinner was all picked up it was time to process some green chili peppers. Mr. McMath had already roasted 3 garbage bags for them and now we had to peel and core them. It wasn't too hard. He had roasted them really well so all we had to do was run our hands down the sides to get the skin off. Then we took out the seeds and rinsed them in water. After we did that, the peppers were brought inside, copped in a food processor, and bagged in 1 cup measurements, then frozen. We froze 90 bags tonight in about 3 hours or so. The Mr. McMaths would like to have 350 bags when their done. Green chillies are used in almost everything down here. Often people will buy them in large boxes and pay to have the store roast them. The boys most years will build roasters and sell them to people who don't want to pay the stores. We also did a smaller bag of sweet peppers such as banana peppers and "fooled you" jalapeños (mild/sweet jalapeno peppers). We then cleaned up and blanched broccoli and shucked shell beans. The ones I was shucking were really beautiful. Also, did you know that there is a shell bean called Money. So as it turns out you can indeed grow money just not on trees. By this time it was quite late, so we decided to pick everything up. And now, by God's grace I got a second wind, and I'm writing to you all about it. But I should probably go to bed now; morning comes early.
Good night all and God bless.