I slept well last night; it was cool enough, I guess, and I didn't wake up until 6. Yesterday I had a board meeting for UUFA. I was glad I don't have to go much longer, although it was not really unpleasant. Not much on the agenda and a lot of people missing. I was so tired from the trip and working all day that I would have liked to miss too. I enjoyed making and eating dinner. We were home by 5. The Captain said the garden is very dry and the deer nibbled any vines of cucumber and pumpkin that stuck out of the fence.

I wished I had remembered to take my camera on our trip and show you some pictures of the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains. Those pictures never come out as well as the real thing, anyway, but I miss them.

I spoke to a church senior group at lunch yesterday (about the homeless shelter). They gave me free lunch. It was barbecue (yuck) and lots of desserts. I didn't really have time to prepare any notes. Of course, I can tell them about the shelter and poverty in Athens, but it wasn't very organized. I was hoping to have an informal discussion and answer questions, but there were too many--maybe 50. I had thought I would know more of them from IHN, but there was only one couple I knew. They seemed hostile, but perhaps it was my imagination. I had one question about whether we take all nationalities and I said yes, but then I said I wasn't sure and would have to check whether we take undocumented workers. Another woman volunteered, "they should be citizens...and they should speak English." Well, who asked for your opinion? I just nodded. I said I don't think Jesus would ask, "where do you come from?" Perhaps they won't ask me back again! They gave me a check for $25. The woman who asked me, Sally, is the owner of Stanfield Air, which donated a new air conditioning unit last month (worth about $4000), so I was very happy to do anything she asked.