Monday

Today was tiring. About ten of us built a house for a family here in Santa Ana. Right now the house they have has a great grandma, grandma, her three children and two grandchildren. the mother of two children and her sister will move to this new house. I pounded in more nails today than I have in probably a lifetime. I hurt now but I consider it a privilege to have had the opportunity to help. There were five of us ladies and we put up siding on three sides and laid the floor. The home is approximately 16 X 16 and since there is no electricity on building sites a chain saw is used for any cuts. In fact the door and one window is cut out using chain saw. The family was so excited that they could hardly wait for us to leave to start sweeping it out. Well I only hit my thumb once but once was enough. I have body parts sore that I did not know existed. But it is a good tired.
The really hard part of the day came after supper tonight. Dorian is going back to college and he was having trouble with a college algebra problem. Well any of you who know me know that I went into social services because I can't do math. Well this problem is a word problem, written in Spanish. I managed to write out the problem, believe it or not with x's and y's but that was as far as I could get. So I got on line and found Lisa on. She was able to get the answer (after me finally writing the problem to her in Spanish) She was a little upset that I explained it three different ways three different times and wanted the problem to dicipher herself. I was still feeling pretty smart for being able to look at a word problem in Spanish and being able to write the equation and then Lisa asked what chapter Dorian was in. Well I thought she had totally lost it. But then she wanted to know if he was in a chapter with quadratic equations? Ok not feeling quite so smart now. Anyways Lisa solved it and emailed it to Dorian.....I used parts of my brain that I have never used in years......so maybe this little exercise warded off the Alzheimers a little longer........I will post pics of today in a little while. I need to go put some water on my brain..........it is smoking...........