Hi Everyone --

What a week! The monsoon is here in earnest -- we've had plenty of rain and the reservoirs are filling up quickly. We are still on 40% water cut offs, because it's never enough and we need to conserve water! Of course, our guard washes the car every morning using up our whole tank of water. We also found out that the outside toilet has a bad washer and uses up the tank of water as well. Maybe the plumber can come tomorrow and get that fixed.

The skylight fix in our bathroom is finished. Unfortunately, it still leaks and there isn't much anyone can do about it. We still have another window to be replaced. Maybe that can get fixed this week. It depends on how strong I feel!

We had a busy week with many John Deere visitors from the US. We had a couple of engineers here to the house for dinner on Monday. Hannah cooked won ton soup and we had homemade bread, tomato and cucumber salad, fruit salad, and birthday cake. We had dinner at home on Tuesday, but we ate out the rest of the week. Craig Puetz was here and it was fun to see him. The latest update from the John Deere high ups is that we will be here until at least December.

I took the broken mirror to the shop where we bought it. It is going to cost the same amount to repair it as we paid for it. We really liked it, so we're getting it done. It was supposed to be done Saturday, but we will try again on Monday.

We had a large group at church today -- 12! We had 3 visitors from the US, and 9 of us from India.

We were out doing some shopping for some John Deere people this week. We went to Tulsibaug and picked up all kinds of interesting things. The worst part of the trip was that it was raining quite a lot, so it was really difficult. Here's a picture of tiny Shiney with her big umbrella and big Heather with her teeny umbrella. We got lots of "cake" or party dresses or frocks. They are princess dresses for dress up for little girls. Really fun!

Have a great week!
Love, Lucinda