Monday, Monday

Shalom! I am writing to you on a cooler, lovely day in Israel! This morning when we started working there were actually clouds and it felt breezy and wonderful! By late morning the sun was shining full force, but we certainly enjoyed the small break in the early morning! These top two pictures are pictures of me working. The picture that shows me without my shoes and socks on was yesturday. I was getting a little bit crazy and hot from working there, so I needed to give my feet some breathing room. That was only okay because I was just sitting where no rocks or scorpions could get on my feet! The other one is me today lying down in an attempt to find a comfortable position to work! Sometimes it helps to lay down and get very close to the tiles because after a while they all tend to blur together! Tip of the Day: Concentration and good close-up eyesight is key to good mosiac cleaning!

Today I worked on the mosiac floor all day again. The picture directly below is a portion of what I did yesterday. This is the cross! The black part in the middle is the cross and then around it is a design with pink mosiac pieces.

This picture is the floor that I worked on today. It is a common design that is often found in churches. It is mostly black and white with some yellow pieces. It is only a very small portion of the floor. This is a project that will probably take years to complete because the work is very long and we have quite a bit of mosiac floor in place.

In other news... Marc, Jim, and Glenn are working in a pastorfory (that probably is not spelled right, but I spelled it how it sounds!). They got down to the floor today and they have a beautiful mosiac floor that is very nicely restored (and not super dirty!) and it has two large crosses on it! That is very exciting.

Today after work we ate lunch and Nancy, Paul, Mark, Kat, Andrea, and I went swimming together. It was a lot of fun and we played with a raft and two water balls that Linda brought. It was fun to make up games and just goof around (We do a lot of that here... especially Kat, Nancy, and I while we are scraping away at mosiac floor all day! We have to have something to do!). Anyway, I will write more tomorrow! Have a great night.

...peace...