Summer is perpetual here. When you're here for a while, you can understand the tradition of closing the shop for a few hours around noontime so you can escape the heat. With the advent of air conditioning, fewer establishments follow that tradition.
Calvary Chapel of Dumaguete has been having some work done on its regular facilities recently (a non-air conditioned location), and the two weeks I'm here will mean two hours each Sunday in air-conditioned comfort. After church and lunch yesterday, we went downtown to a local department store for some needlework canvas for Erica (who wanted to sew like Grandma), and the store was packed. The air conditioning was wonderful; and like many others, I would have loved to have spent the afternoon there, making my way around people and racks of goods, just to feel that cool on my skin.
Monday, March 26
Today was the target day to begin sewing for Erica, one of the things I wanted to be sure to do while I was here. So after our walk this morning, Donna set up the sewing machine and all the other goodies, fashioning a cutting mat from a cardboard box, and I picked out a few pieces of fabric to get started. Erica was pleased with today's efforts.
Tomorrow, Donna has decided to team up with me. She'll cut out outfits, and I'll sew. Donna wants me to take her sewing machine home with me; and if she has no sewing machine, that means there's no need for fabric. I surely don't want to bring any more fabric home than necessary, so I need to convert this fabric into wearables! That's good motivation for me to work fast! It will be fun to work with Donna in this way.
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