Let’s try this again. I’m going to finally write about our trip to Vietnam last December. Then, hopefully keep up with our activities before I get behind again.
We’re quite busy. The Oregon Food Bank has a 5-acre garden that we work in every week, producing fresh produce to go into food parcels for the hungry. It’s a great organization, and the volunteers there every week are a nice group of people to know.
We both volunteer at Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland. I usually greet visitors at the gate, while Ellen helps with activities such as making bookmarks or story time.
We finished another term of Chinese language classes, recognizing a few characters, and working on common greetings. This summer we’ll practice with classmates and friends at the Chinese garden. Challenging, but fun.
We help with the local elementary school’s garden also. They’re struggling to get participants, but the idea is to get kids interested in vegetable gardening, and healthy eating. We help with garden-related activities like building bean tepees, staking tomatoes, planting starts and seeds, etc. Many of the kids have no yard at home, so haven’t really seen a home garden.
Ellen’s been making more glass art, working on more challenging pieces. I moved some things around in the garden, and even with a very wet spring the tomatoes are doing well. We had a successful open garden, made some new friends, and look forward to a good barbecue summer.
Now on to the recap of our last trip.
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