good quote

I love this quote. I don't know who originally said it, but it is a great one for all of my fellow single sisters out there!

"Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think that something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree."

A visitor

So Justin Moreno flew over from Visalia, CA to MD to help at Crownsville- he is one of the engineers on the project. He was there to inspect all the work we've been doing. Our schedules didn't mesh to hang out, but we had fun eating lunch together and catching up on site. It was great to see an old family friend!

View from my balcony

I took a couple pics of the sunset. Gorgeous!

Crownsville and my famous art

Last week was a crazy Crownsville week! I worked three days in a row, thurs, fri and sat. Jaclyn came with me on Thurs and Sat. I am so happy because they are no longer assigning me to work in food service! Woohoo! The pics of the two burns on my arm is from the huge grill in the kitchen. They are grease splatter burns. At least now I wont be getting any more:-) On thursday they had a huge cement pour- about 23 cement trucks came. I wore my new knee high cement boots and learned how to finish the cement. Then friday and saturday I helped with carpentry and also learned how to tie rebar. I also did some landscaping again.
So my cute hard hat is sort of a sensation now, so I have sisters asking me to decorate their hats also. I now have a waiting list of hats to do. Here are some I did- one with butterflies, another with orchids. Another sister wants a jungle scene with monkeys. I should start charging or something:-)

Strange (but cool) encounters

So today I worked at Crownsville again, and it was a pretty normal day- get up at 3:30am, leave my house at 4:15, get to the site at 5:30 and work till 2. At breakfast, I noticed a brother across the dining hut and did a double take. Could that be Byron Deitrich? It was!!!!! I walked over and said hi, and Byron freaked out, he was so surprised and excited. He is a brother who was in my congregation when we lived in Visalia when I was 7yrs old! His daughter Amy and I were best friends when we were little! I have not seen him in probably 10-12 years at least. That was so cool and strange! I guess assembly hall builds attract people from all over. He was updating me on how his family is doing- Amy is doing good, his son Hans is doing good. Hans in in Germany right now helping out an English group. I thought, wow, that is so weird that a nerdy kid who used to play barbies with us is now an adult and living in Germany! He fits right in, I bet- I mean, his name is Hans:-)
Anyway, I just thought that encounter was kind of cool. It is such a small world in Jehovah's organization.