Me DG

Good Saturday Morning to you. It is 9:30 AM as I start this and I feel like it should be 9:30 PM. We went to bed last night at 11:15 PM and I listened to a church service somewhere near and it went from then until 4:15 AM The preacher was a boomer...I just wish I knew what he was saying, it sounded like it would have been great. The singing was great and a part I wasn't sure of was when the preacher would say something and then everyone else would repeat it with great gusto too. They did this for ever so long, after a while I thought I would count the number of times they said it and I got to 35 so it would have been about 50 times I am sure. The donkeys, guinea hens, roosters, dogs, cows and all other life joined in the service from where ever they were and it was quite a night. I didn't close my eyes until after 4:15 and then I was so hot it was a fitfull short sleep and by 5:45 AM I was on the roof watching life unfold for another day.
We had fun last night after a delicious supper of rice and beans. Gail and I donned painting clothes and painted the wood preserver on the new shelves and then showered and came back down to visit with Cecile for a while. Then we made some "round and round chocolate balls" and
ate them and started a game of Frustration and it is aptly named....just ask Trueman. Dickie thought he would play a joke on Karen and in the process scared the daylights out of me as well. Then Karen wanted him to do it to Cecile but she was a bit aware that something was happening
because she had heard Karen scream...so she was looking to see if Dickie was in the house before she would go to the door. She knows we are all crazy and was on guard!
Karen, Luckner, Cecile, Gail and Trueman have left for Saint Marc to get supplies for the kitchen
project, to market for food supplies and propane too. Dickie is working in the kitchen and Alex is
watching him so he can learn what to do...he is very smart and tries to do what ever he sees. He
can pick up the hammer with his feet and turn it around and hammer the floor with it.
Karen gave me her keys and said I was in charge...what a laugh! I walked around proudly with
my chest stuck out and said "Me DG" (Director General) pronounced Day Jay. The kids have to
come if any problem arises and I have my trusty Creole dictionary in hand. Vladimy has given
me several good lessons but I soon forget what I learned. He spent a lot of time laughing at me
and saying "No" a lot before he would say "Bon". We did have a lot of fun. I have made several
big blunders with what I have said or thought they were saying to me and everyone laughs now
before I even get anything out. They are all a lot of fun and enjoy me trying to learn and they
look in the dictionary with me and show me what I should see. Jacques is especially patient with
me, Madame St. Hardier has laughed so hard at Karen explaining to her what I thought she had
told me and so did as compared to what she was trying to tell me to do. I thought for sure I knew what "anpil" meant and it was the opposite.
Yesterday I decided I would close Karen's door and let her get some work done and I was to be
DG again. I had only done that when Jacques came to the door and wanted something and I
hadn't a clue and he tried to tell me and then said "DG" and I said "Me DG" and he laughed
really hard and shook his head and said :"No, DG". My new role didn't last very long.
We have been trying to be a help to Karen and help her get somewhat caught up but we have a
lot to do yet. She did relax yesterday though and we had some fun and we hope to get a few
more days of less work out of her and a few more laughs in. She goes 90 miles per hour from
6:00 AM (if that late) until about 7:00 PM before she even slows down to about 60 MPH
Well that is enough for this morning. Must go take Alex and go down and see how the kids are
doing at the childrens home.
Oh, before I go I should tell you a bit about our episode with the computer. Trueman went in to
set up the new tower we brought down to the monitor in the spare room (Pastor Jim's bedroom)
and he was going great guns until he ran into a snag. The cord from the monitor had a male end
and the tower had a male end and so we looked and looked everywhere for a female end but
couldn't find one so we started emailing to see what we could do and get Pastor Jim to bring to
us. After about 6 emails to Janet at the church office and her many many phone calls to Cassa
and Microage she kept telling us it should be there and finally after about 4 times of her telling us this and Joel saying we were looking a the wrong thing we finally found it and we had a good laugh at our mistake. I am sorry for all that work Janet but we do thank you for your desire to help us and finally make us see the light ...no see the plug!
Well, this time I am going. I hear Dickie making a big noise in the kitchen and Alex laughing.
Love to you all
Sandra