I had school this morning...our usual Monday schedule. Joy finished out the morning with her long time. She again painted. She finished a picture of a blue bird sitting on a sunflower and then started sketching Peaches, one of Esther's cats, so she can paint her on another day. Georgia and Peaches came in when Esther came over to read and Georgia napped downstairs in the family room and Peaches came up to the school room and took a little snooze till Joy headed home for lunch. The cats are really enjoying the sun on our front porch and have picked out places to rest on the rocking chairs where the sun can warm them. The one thing about them being on the porch, they can easily slip in when someone is coming or going! Every so often we are surprised by their presence!
I have found out some interesting things as Nathan, Kathy and family get ready for their trip to Kenya. Just last week Kathy got a call from Vanderbilt cancelling her and Joseph's Yellow Fever vaccine because there is a low supply (at least in the South) and that they would have to come in at a later time. They were given a date for another appointment on down the road and that wouldn't work as they would be in Africa...a bit far to come for a vaccine! So Kathy got busy and started calling around all over the area...meaning several southern states! And, most of the large hospitals that give that vaccine did not have any either. She finally found some in South Carolina. She and Joseph hopped in the car this afternoon and are on their way for their appointment tomorrow. They are going to stop and stay with one of her sisters this evening. She lives about two hours away from the appointment. Until this trip, I guess I hadn't thought a lot about the vaccines that are necessary for trips such as theirs and the fact that they would be in short supply! The rest of their family got the vaccine their last trip to Africa, but Joseph wasn't born yet and Kathy was pregnant so didn't get one that time. That's the reason that they are the only ones heading off on this adventure! Nathan and the rest of the children are holding down the fort till Kathy and Joseph return tomorrow.
Woody and I have stayed close to home today. I have moved a few more items out of the cabinets. Woody has done his usual crossword puzzles, read, and watched TV. At the moment he is at the Furnace Room Prayer meeting at church. After he left, I cleaned up the kitchen and started the dishwasher. So now I am settled in for the rest of the evening and Woody will be shortly once he returns.
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