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Published: April 2nd 2010
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Aaron, Xander, and Danielle! Yet another month has gone by in Port Townsend. Sorry we are short on the pictures this month but the camera just didn't even make it out until the very last week!
March has been an interesting month. We have started to do a lot of different things and are meeting new people, making new friends, gardening, yah, pretty awesome. It is so crazy to look around and see all of these flowers blooming and working out in the garden for hours on end when we know that Colorado is still getting massive amounts of snow. It does make for a large craving of snowboarding!
We are getting really excited about being able to plant so many things in our garden in the next month or so. There are already starters at the stores for onions, peas, lettuce, kale, strawberries, herbs, and all kinds of stuff! You can really grow so many things out here. We are thinking of getting some starters and letting them begin in house and then transfer them out to the garden in the end of April. It's awesome because so many people really support growing and eating local foods and pretty much everyone has
some sort of little garden!
One thing about gardening, I should actually say, Joe's favorite thing about gardening, is all of the weeds! Yah.. we let them get a little out of control so right now, it's weeds TRUMP Krommels (Our house is Krommel Manor - Kramer + Dommel - our roommates last name) but we will get them out of here in no time.. well, actually, we will get some out by the time the others grow back in....
Gwen is playing volleyball now, once a week, at a local drop in game! It's awesome!!! It's great playing with people who really love to play and who know how to play although the bruises on the arms are evidence that I haven't done anything like this in a looonnggg time. It's great, though! Joe is going to take an African Dance class at the YMCA when those start up and he is super stoked about that.
We are also in a book club now with people our age! Yah! They do exist! We read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last month and are reading Three Cups of Tea this month. We read out loud at our
house because we only have the one copy of the book but it was great!
We have weekly dance movie/musical movie nights at our place now, which, according to some discussions yesterday, may also begin to include BBQs. SWEET! We watched a super cute dance documentary called Mad Hot Ballroom. If you haven't seen it, you totally should.
We also started a weekly potluck/movie night with some other people here in Port Townsend and right now, we are all watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. We were telling people about how amazing the show is and how it is all about youth empowerment and now we are all in to it! We are practicing our bending so watch out!
Junior Youth class is going well. We are working on coming up with some service projects and on getting the kids really involved in the community. We talked about our responsibility for the community and what we see as our place in it and we will see where it goes from there. Children's Classes are also great!
Study Circles and Devotions are going really well, too. We have some sweet Ruhi Book 1s happening right now - full
of amazing conversations about the habits that we have and how they effect the greater society. Very life-changing.
We also became an A-cluster this last month! Yah! For peeps who don't know what that means, basically it means that we have enough human resources in our area to really start working on establishing junior youth groups, children's classes, study circles, and devotions, and to make them sustainable. The essence of all of these activities is to build spiritual communities and we are now at a point out here that we can start a number of these and help to make them on-going.
Danielle, Aaron, and Xander came out to Portland for their spring break and we met up with them in Olympia, which is exactly right in the middle of Portland and Port Townsend. It was so great to see them! We had some delicious coffee (Washington style) and Salvadorian food. Aaron said it was pretty good so it must have been! It was cool to see the Capitol and it was such a beautiful drive.
Well, it's going to be a short one this month. Life is great though and we are starting to really get
more involved in the community out here. In fact, it is time to go and get us some Bub's Tacos - a little taco/burrito stand just down the street from our house.. YUM!
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