Daily Digest (there must be a better title...)

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I thought I'd share one varied snippet of history from my life each day this past week:

Sunday: We hosted an out-of-town guest in my bedroom Sunday through Wednesday; she's from California and was shocked to hear insects at night here in our little neighborhood! She asked if there are bears nearby. [There actually are bears nearby... but not in our yard as far as I know.]

Monday: Lunched at Square Bean (my first visit to the little coffee shoppe in Dillsburg) with four others-- two Pennsylvanians, one Californian, one Floridian, and me, a Michigander. We discussed traditional Pennsylvania Dutch foods, and local architecture.

Tuesday: Helped with meals for over 50 people at a leadership event at work... baked this peanut butter apple baked oatmeal as a part of their breakfast, and helped with various kitchen items throughout the day, including prepping 60 individual lettuce salads for lunch. {after hours: booked a hotel for a weekend with Amy and Libby in November. weeee!}

Wednesday: Participated as usual in a weekly prayer time at noon. I recently wrapped up a couple major projects at work, and this week began a new project which included compiling a spreadsheet to track 100+ global projects that use money for things like school scholarships, hospitals, and economic development in at least a dozen different countries.

Thursday: Ate lunch with Betsy (we talk on the phone and both eat lunch at the same time in our respective locations), and dinner with the Miller family-- niece Ellie is an absolute riot! One of her many funnies of the evening was her pretend laptop, which was actually a red folded board from the game of Scattergories :).

Friday: Cooked broccoli soup (I added a cup of sharp cheddar cheese) for dinner and watched the movie Race (Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics in Berlin) with Sara, Sharon, and a friend. Olympic stories are inspiring :). I could not believe the racial realities portrayed in the film and wonder if they really happened that way... incredibly Sad.

Saturday: Cleaned carpets and the kitchen at a friend's trashed rental house (she and her husband live in Asia these days)... was not inspired to invest in a rental property even if you can make money at it sometimes. The stench (carpet) and bugs (cockroaches) were Gross.