There were a few visitors at the monastery today. A group of people came and did more work on the landscaping and others worked cleaning the kitchen. I spent most of the day indoors because the heat is proving to be extremely uncomfortable (at least for me). It was possible to varnish two more icons and work a bit more on the sewing machine; I am anxious to improve my knowledge of the workings of the machine.
For the first time this season, I saw several hummingbirds as well as a blue bird, several other kinds which I don’t know the names of and tonnes of frogs. The frogs were noticeable yesterday but today was the first time that I heard them in such abundance.
In the
evening I was in the big church, refilling the big lampada and trimming
the wick at the “Joy of Canada” icon and then went to the kitchen for a
glass of Inka. While there, I noticed a car in the parking lot so went
to check and see who it might be. It turned out to be George, the good
friend of Sorin and Georgeta, who has done a lot of work here at the
monastery. I had wanted to give an icon to him the other day but
everyone left before I had affixed the backing to the icon soooo, I ran
out to give it to him today, and to bid him the proper season greeting
of “Christ is Risen!”