It's hard to believe that we're already quite a ways into December now. Soon it will be 2010, and am I ready for that? Time goes by so quickly.
Our Thanksgiving spread. It was de-licious!
Our first plant. How cute! It's lettuce in case you were wondering.
The guy in the teal shirt was the instructor.
Two beds of plants finished. One was lettuce in gravel; the other was celery in sand.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support!
Be blessed!
In the last three weeks I've made it through Thanksgiving and the hydroponics class! Those are the good things. Sadly I was also sick for a good portion of the past month. Food poisoning gave way to a nasty cold which developed into a sinus infection which in turn gave me an ear infection. Yes, it's horrible, I know. Thankfully, after finally getting started on antibiotics I am almost completely as good as new. But that is in the past. I feel that this is the start of a new era free from sickness! I will prevail! And I'll just keep telling myself that until my body actually believes it; they say the mind is pretty powerful. We'll see. :) No worries though.
I suppose you'll want to know about hydroponics class since that's what I've spent a large amount of time doing lately... no? Well, I thought as much. It wasn't really that exciting anyways. I do have a few photos to show you though. And I got to meet many very nice people, some of whom go to the church so I get to continue to see them. Besides the knowledge that I gained in the class, it was really great to see first hand how this Project is making a lasting impact on the community. The skills we learned are extremely practical and empowering to the people who took the class. Most of them will go on to use what the learned to grow produce that they can sell to support themselves and their families or just use it to provide food for their own tables. Either way they are now equipped with another set of skills that can improve their quality of life.
This can even reach beyond their homes and into the community. A group of my classmates began to talk seriously about starting a cooperation, joining together and recruiting interested people from the community to start a small business selling produce that would be grown organically using the hydroponics system. With enough ambition I believe it's entirely possible.
I've been hearing a lot about all the snow they're getting back home in the good 'ol Midwest. It makes me even more excited to go home in just less than two weeks. I've been gearing up for Christmas by listening to Christmas music online and cutting out paper snowflakes. Ah, beautiful snow. I can't wait! At the same time I'm enjoying being able to wear flip-flops and t-shirts in December, but I'm glad I'll at least get a little taste of winter this year. Let's face it. I'm a Minnesota girl through and through. Enjoying cold weather just runs in my veins, what can I say.
Our Thanksgiving spread. It was de-licious!Hydroponics class, learning one method of planting
Our first plant. How cute! It's lettuce in case you were wondering.The guy in the teal shirt was the instructor.
Two beds of plants finished. One was lettuce in gravel; the other was celery in sand.Thank you for your continued prayers and support!
Be blessed!
