July 25

 Monday morning - time to get to work.  I was impressed with how tidy the library was when we arrived this morning.   Tidy, but dusty.  I got to work on sorting the book cards, but by the end of the work day, I had removed all the books from these three shelves, dusted, check the card pockets, mended several books with book tape and alphabetized and put back on the shelves.   These three shelves take you through the "G's" of the Fiction section of the library.  Lots of books missing and many need to be replaced because they are worn pretty bad.
 

 Dale spent the time in the other side of the room  getting prepared for his upcoming seminars - first ones this Friday night and Saturday.

Best part of the morning was seeing my friend Elsa!  She is still doing the Bursar/secretary job with her sister - and keeps everything well organized.   She also does some cooking for selling lunches during the school year, managing the snack bar,  and organizing and decorating for special events.     She is looking forward to July when she has her "vacation" time - getting to stay at home with her two children for a few weeks.  
I'm thankful for her dedication to her work at Cornerstone and the professionalism she has displayed  over the past 7 years. 
 It  always amazes me to see which machines are still working in the office each summer - the heat and humidity are so hard on electronic equipment.  The Riso machine (duplicator) we purchased 7 1/2 years ago, thanks to a generous donor back home, is now on it's last leg.   It is amazing to me that it has kept on working (withregular maintenance) this long!   There is an air conditioning unit  working in the office now, but they use it sparingly because of what it does to the electric bill.

It felt good to me after working all morning in the hot library to sit with Elsa and Karen in the air conditioned office for lunch, but Dale and Albert had their lunch outside in the shade.  Today was mucha calor.  (very hot)  It was at least 95 actual degrees last we checked, but, according to Accu-weather, 115 degrees feel like temperature.

Right now we are enjoying the coolness of a rain shower which just moved through.   The clouds below were forming as we ate our tortillas and beans for dinner.