Caroleen’s Treasures

Saturday again! We are surprised by an unexpected guest early in the morning when we are still in bed. He was here to see his niece who is a member of the church but was ashamed to attend the service here. So he and Tatang arranged to visit the niece and the family today. I quickly prepared breakfast and when it was already 8:30am and no shadow of Tatang has appreared, Donald decided to bring the guest to Tatang’s place in case he forgot about their appointment. When Donald came home, we all went to the market.

Speaking of ukay-ukay…I found a maternity capri jeans! And while I am busy picking vegetables, Donald dissapeared and he came back with a Nike baseball cap. I could not ruin his excitement for finding a very nice cap. Ella has 5 peso coin in her little purse and she bought a rice cake out of it. Donald and she are equally happy about what they got.

We ended up carrying a bag full of vegetables, fish and some meat. I doubled the meat and vegetables for our meal fellowship tomorrow. Early morning, at 8am, we lost power. No power means no water too for us who uses electric water pump. So I have to send Ella and Tadiday over the well to take a bath. Tadiday has filled the three basins before the electricity went out. Glad that I believed what the neighbor has told me yesterday. We usually have a whole day power interruption during Sundays and not Saturdays, but I said to myself I wouldn’t be hurt if I believe. So the water on the basin has helped me clean and wash the fish, meat and vegetables.

In the afternoon, we took a nap. It was not yet long when the members came to clean the church yard. We have assignments what area to clean and they decided to come even it is not yet their schedule. Me, Donald and Tadiday also cleaned the area where we would plant our seeds. I hope we could start the garden Monday. The rain has hindered us to go to Tatang’s place to get some bamboos. Hope it won’t rain next week.

I think Ella could be the fastest runner here in town. Donald borrowed Tatang’s motorbike to get a big pan that I need tomorrow to cook big batch of dishes. Ella wanted to ride with her Daddy but Donald said NO. When Donald started the motorbike, Ella ran as fast as the bike and even ran ahead of the bike. Donald stepped on the brakes and she got her way. Donald knows he should have not let Ella get her way but as he sees it, Ella could get an accident if he won’t stop and he knows Ella won’t stop running either. I think they had a nice and long lecture about obiedience after that.

I will be off for a while to check on portable oxygen concentrator and be back to blog hop. See yah!