My mom said we have three choices for wi-fi: one is an internet café and the other two are patios at peoples’ houses. She spent the week before we got here visiting all the possibilities to find the best. What a great mom!
Wired Café seems to have grown up and been added onto over the years. Three buildings that used to be a house and garage and shed are fitted together with decks, raised levels and gardens.
Someone still lives here and goes back and forth through the white door behind Troy.
One of two goldfish ponds is nestled up next to the house.
Another is out front with a little Japanese bridge.
We finish up with the internet stuff and go home to Rosa’s house. Rosa is Mom’s long-time friend. Her first husband was an artist and they built their adobe house and have added to it over the years. He died and she remarried a man in the oil business. He died too, and now she and Mom come in the summers. When it is time to take a break from school work, we clear off the table behind the flower and reset it for lunch.
Meanwhile Mom is making something wonderful from all the gardens and farmer’s markets. She also makes us scones every morning to take to Wired, because their food is not on par with the coffee and internet and ambiance. Today the scones had white chocolate and candied ginger. Every day the boys say, “These are the best yet!”
Thanks for all the encouragement about my fantasies coming back to reality. Troy and I had a heart to heart about being better teachers and not taking every balk as a challenge to my authority. Teaching them is a gift from God that we do in His service.
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