Still in Houston

Yes, we are still in Houston!! But we are leaving on Thursday and going to Dallas. We will be taking the first meeting of the video training there and spending one night. Then we will move on to Oklahoma City where we will take the next 5 meetings. Then we go to Albuquerque where will finish the training. At least that is what we thing we are doing. Everything is always subject to change. We aren't sure yet when we are going to fit in Arizona. We have several options that we are leaving open.

Stan is working very hard and I am hardly working. Like I said before, the deck turned out to be a major job -- mainly because the person who made it did it wrong and it was about ready to fall down. But he is righting all the wrongs and they will have a much better deck after he is finished with it. My work is mainly in the kitchen, although I am seeing quite a few herb clients. But mostly, Heather is getting a very happy break from intense cooking for her three constantly starving children. She homeschools them and they are all Suzuki students (violin, guitar, and cello) so she keeps very busy. We are enjoying impromptu recitals after dinner.

We are also enjoying one of Texas' finest products: Blue Bell Ice Cream!! The favorite so far is Vanilla Moolenium Crunch. You see, we went to the store and we thought we bought some of it and got home and realized that is was the Chocolate Moolenium Crunch. :( So the next day Heather went back and got the vanilla one. But we are being good sports and eating the chocolate one, too. Sometimes you just have to learn to suffer.

Today, Stan is installing a French door for some friends of Dave and Heather's. Then tomorrow he will finish up with the deck. The weather here is beyond hot so he is constanly sweating and I am constantly trying to fill him up with liquids with minerals in them. This will make him appreciate Virginia summers....something he has never appreciated before. I, on the other hand, am spending most of my time in the comfort of the well air conditioned Farrell home.

We have gone to a number of meetings while here. Several in homes -- including the Lord's Table meeting on Sunday evening. The church here is about 500 so they even break up into smaller groups on Sunday morning so there were about 40 in the meeting we were in. They have everyone divided by geographical areas but in different rooms in the meeting hall. We all go over the same outlines and everyone shares from what they enjoyed from them. After that meeting we went to the home of some of the saints for a meal.

So we will be hitting the road soon. We will get back with you -- probably not in Dallas but in OKC.