I had another great afternoon with Dave. We looked through another album and reminisced. His parents fed me way too much sugar–they’ve been baking for the holidays.
We called Jeff on speaker phone, and we badgered him until he came over too. It was the first time the three of us had been together since Israel.
I am extremely excited for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law–they have decided to buy nothing new for one year. This is something I have been interested in exploring further myself, but I never expected to know anyone who would take this amazing plunge. You can read about the “rules” they are following, and I also recommend reading the Good magazine article.
I was able to visit my friend Dave W. He is doing so much better. He still attends rehab for learning things he should know, but we had a great time reminiscing. We looked through an old photo album I had, and I reminded him of people and he told me stories about them. I was really impressed with what he recalled.
I am going back next week.
I uploaded and labeled most of my pictures from the trip to Europe. My sister may be sending me some of her files, but as of right now, this is what I’ve got. Peruse at your leisure–it’s probably really dry.
Some of you did want me to sit with you and go over them. Maybe I will invite myself to Kelli’s house, and Zack will let me use the projector and I can bore everyone. But at least we can all drink while I do it.
(By the way, I used folionow.com to create my website.)
David, Zack, and I spent the morning at a fancy car show plugging folionow.
I went into the main showroom with a handfull of business cards because we were planning on leaving and I wanted to make sure to hand them out to the photographers.
And then I locked eyes with HIM.
You know…Fabio.
And he smiled back at me. We were only two feet away from each other.
Of course, I quickly ran back to where David and Zack were packing.
“Fabio’s here. As in ‘Fabio’ Fabio.”
They didn’t believe me. They said it was a race car driver that lived in Scottsdale that looks like Fabio. I protested. I knew I saw him. They went into the main showroom, came back, and told me that he wasn’t Fabio.
David called over the media director to prove me wrong because of my insistence.
“What’s the name of the race car driver in there who looks like Fabio?”
“That is Fabio. He owns the gray Porcshe next to the yellow one. He’s one of our best customers.”
Don’t tell me I don’t know Fabio when I see him.
My friend Daryl Mallett is auctioning himself on ebay.
Last month David and I were able to spend several different days with our friend Ryan. He lives in Venezuela most of the time, but he came back to Arizona for a couple weeks. Ryan is a lot of fun to hang out with especially because we get to talk about revolutionary living. Before he left, he bought seed packets to plant in the community in which he lives.
Congratulations to Krys and Melissa on their new baby Olivia.
(And thanks for letting me take beautiful pictures of her!)
My friend Dave is in the hospital. It’s very serious. If you are a person of prayer, please…
**update**
David has had surgery, and it was successful. He still has a very long road ahead of him.
Today we had our first workday for our community garden. It was a lot of fun and hardwork. We planted a lot of fall and winter vegetables, we dug out a space for a garden in the spring, and we overhauled the compost pile–whew!
Moving rock…
Tara brought Baby Shea…
Baby Shea
Adam was a working machine!
Wendi showing us her wheelbarrow skills
Brenda swears she always closes her eyes.
Stephanie, Kellen, Kirra, and Kelli planting our food
Craig and Wendi are bringing over the compost
Good job from A-Z (couldn’t resist)
Stephanie found a nail in the alley
Kellen took a break from the laborious digging
Finit…