Laundry Day!

So at work we had been focusing a lot of our time and energy on an event that occured on Tuesday night. Now that it is finally over we have been given part of today off which mean I can spend my morning and part of the afternoon catching up on things like laundry. For the last three weeks or more we have been without a working washing machine so there has been a large pile collecting in my closet. On Tuesday we finally got it fixed so it has been in large demand the last few evenings. So now that I am able to be home during the day I am able to do mine! I have the third load currently in the wash and still have one more full load waiting to be done. It is amazing how many clothes I have here. I only had to resort to hand washing once over the last few weeks. I have also decided to make some baked oatmeal for us to eat over the weekend. It is fairly easy to make and I have realized that I really like it. That is probably due to the amount of brown sugar and oil which goes into it.

Since I am doing some house keeping stuff today I have realized that one thing I need to do is upload some photos on here which are long overdue. There are some in here from our retreat, some from sight seeing around DC, some from my mom's visit, and some from the school where I work.

 

These are from one of our walks through the woods during retreat. We ended up taking a "short cut" meaning we were lost, wandered down a really steep and long hill side and found our trail once more. We found some chairs made from stones and Keith attempted to cross the creek on an unsturdy log. He didn't get hurt, but gave up before getting very far. We then found the river and hung out there for awhile.

 

Here are some of my sight seeing pictures. (Me and Anne in front of the White House)

 

Because of alge growing in the reflecting pool they drained it and scrubbed it out. Before they refilled it people discovered that it is a nice place to hangout - that is until the police come along and yell at everyone to get out. Here are some before and after shots.

 

And a few pictures of Mom and me at the WWII memorial. It looks really cool with all the fountains going. There was also a group of vetrans from one of the Honor Flights there.

 

And lastly a few pictures of the students I work with. They are working in our garden beds at the school. We have 5 beds.

 

In the future I will try to stay more up to date on pictures. Some of these are from a month or more ago.