SECOND SATURDAY

We’re back in the routine at the RV and the weather has finally started to turn to spring.  With the change, the birds are hanging around and singing every morning.  We bought a bird feeder to use up the seed that we had at the house in Mesa and the birds just love it.  We are only allowed hummingbird feeders in the resort but we put this one up at the back of the RV and will take it down when the seeds are consumed.

The smaller birds go directly to the feeder and the larger birds dig in the rocks under the feeder to get the dropped seed.  The quails are aggressive diggers and have pushed a lot of rocks over the edging onto the concrete.  This one particular bird picked up the rocks in its beak and tossed them aside.  Too bad I couldn’t get a picture of it in action!

On Saturday, we participated in our church’s Second Saturday volunteer event.  There were about 250 volunteers and we were transported in 4 buses to an elementary school that is attended by the children of low income families.  The brick building at this school doesn’t look like a “traditional” school to us and the funding is obviously different from what we are familiar with back in B.C.  However, the classrooms had the usual desks, whiteboards, wall art and computer terminals as our schools.

We were tasked with cleaning up the inside and outside of the buildings, painting some of the wooden structures, planting trees and shrubs, repairing an awning, writing notes to the students and preparing gifts for the teachers.

It was a great time and we accomplished everything in just a few hours.