Category: Meanderings

Morning all!  Coffee Cup and I are slowly settling back into a routine.  I wake up at about 6:15 am and get the coffee going.  Pretty much pre – anything else…. I pop some lotion on my face, this morning we are going with the full out face mask to hopefully replenish the damage I did last week in the sun, and then open up my lap top…. which to me feels like opening a treasure box on an Indiana Jones Adventure.

Its funny to think that this routine started in June of 2009 when I discovered book blogging.  5 months later – I still love it so much!

Yesterday afternoon I was excited to discover I won a book over at With A Good Book.  The book is called Fablehaven and I love love love the look of this book!  Seriously look at this cover:

This is going to be their November book discussion book at With a Good Book. I participated in their October discussion on a Book Thief and that entered me in this giveaway.  Super way cool and made my day!

Today I have a book review popping up in a couple hours and I have some giveaways to clear up later today so take time to enter while you can!  I am also reminded that I need to plan another Word Shaker book club read….  hmmmmmm….

Mornin’. I think this morning I have the whole look going on of the tired out wild hair looking coffee drinker.  I just don’t feel so well this morning…. sore throat, bit of a headache…..

First day back in the office so “yay” (I say this weekly and sarcastically – ha ha)

I did however blog hop yesterday and I have a book discovery from a blog that I think is new to me as well.  Over at Savidge Reads (I was admiring the blog layout too!) I found a review on a book called The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark.  The cover caught my eye… not sure what it was but the sherbet orange coloring works for me.  I liked the review and was interested in this author who I have never read.

Pop on over to this review today at Savidge Reads and see for yourself.   As for me, I am going to haul myself to the office and see what I can accomplish at least for the first half of the day…. I have Bookies Book Club tonight in which we are reading The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls.

My goal was to get up this morning and write my online journal of our Honduras trip.  That did happen.  I did start this morning.  In fact I started at about 7 am.  And not here I am at 12:56 pm…. and I have just now finished.

It really is hard to put into words this experience but I always do try.  I know I leave quite a bit out…. a lot of the moments when we laugh hard or tease one another, or just want to cry out with frustration.  For me, being the team leader always seems to wipe me out a bit more than when I am one of the team members.  I think it is because I am wired to work hard to keep everyone happy and  to try to keep things smooth along the way.  In ways I wish I wasnt wired that way – and in other ways I am glad that I am sensitive enough to want to do that.

So here, is the link to the journal and pictures of the Honduras AFE trip.  I hope you will take a little time to see what we did and what we experienced.  Honduras Afe Trip November 2009.

Last morning in Honduras.  We are packed up and ready to come home.  We will leave at 10 am this morning, go to Huston Texas and then to Minneapolis Minnesota from there.  I will get home at about 1:00 am tomorrow.

It has been a really good week and as exciting as this week has been – I really am ready to come back home.

Friday.  Early start today – we are still in Honduras and being picked up today at 7:15 am to go to see the other area I have worked in while I have bee here in the past Maneulito.  I love going there as I know most of the kids and I am excited for the three people with me who are first timers here. After that we will go up to the Valley Of Angels which is our one chance to shop this week.  Its fun to pick up a couple little things but I am always looking for a book…. I love to get books from other parts of the world!  We will see what I find.

We fly back on Saturday!  This time has gone fast!

 

A quick update…. I see yesterday I even put the wrong day…LOL.  One more full work day today.  Its hard to get time alone to write…. moments like that are rare.  🙂

Tonight we will have dinner at Jeoney’s – that will be an experience… real Honduran food.  There will be pictures.  I have to run – but will be back and posting my reviews, atc… this Sunday and probably still popping in yet this week.

Have a great day!

Tuesday in Honduras.  Last night we went out on the streets and gave food and water to the children who live on the streets.  This is my 6th time doing the streets and it never gets easier.

Today we are back on the work site.  I am sitting here before breakfast putting up a quick post.  We are about half way through our trip.  Lots left to do.  Talk to you all soon!  Thanks for hanging out and yes  I am getting a little reading done, currently reading Jantsen’s Gift by Pam Cope.

I have not done much meandering through the blogesphere these past few days, but as you know, I have meandered across the country.  Currently I am sitting in the guest house in Tegucigalpa , Honduras.  We will be eating breakfast soon (I think it is pancakes) and lots of fresh fruit.

At 7:30 we go to AFE where we are working on a school that is being built for children who live in the dump.  I group of us are offsite working on an addition on a home for a girl who needs a place to live.  I am on the off site team.  It is hard to describe the conditions and when I have time I will add a few pictures on here.

I will be back to commenting and hopping around to all your blogs when I get home on Sunday.  Thanks for checking here – there are postings going on daily from some great people who are helping me out.  🙂

This morning I am waking up in Texas!  Texas!  Any of you out there from Texas?  I have a 9 am flight from here to Honduras… we should land around noon in Tegucigalpa.

I discovered a new blog last weekend called Educating Petunia.  Love the title!  While hopping around the blogesphere yesterday I found a book that was reviewed there called Green Angel by Alice Hoffman.  Check out this cover:

Wow huh?  And the review sounded really good too.  Sometimes I feel like I am the last person on earth that has not yet read Alice Hoffman.  What is up with that?

Stop over to Educating Petunia’s and check out this book as well as the blog!  I know I will be back to see what else is posted!  🙂

It is Saturday Morning and I am leaving  Texas and on my way to Honduras.  In a few hours Julie will be here from My Own Little Corner Of The World to take care of things while I am in flight.  I will try to check in the mornings if I have internet access to give you morning updates – otherwise please enjoy the great bloggers who are stopping in this week to water my plants and chat with you!  🙂

Happy Halloween!!!