Wednesday, September 3, 2014

mission sweat shop

july 2014
Our mission president's wife Sister Brown makes tartan pillow cases and gives them with a new pillow to each incoming young missionary.  I personally do not know how she has kept up with it for the past two years, as we often get 10 - 25 in every 6 ish weeks. I was talking about it with a couple of the Sister's in the office staff and I told them  I would be glad to help sew. As it turned out the office sisters decided to all gather and have a sewing circle.  Six of us gathered in the dinning room of the mission home and sewed 33 pillow cases in 3 1/2 hours

The rest of this post is now several weeks later and we have had another sewing session and made another batch of pillowcases. Here are pictures of our mission sweat shop. Some were taken the first time and some the second time.
Sister Brown spreading tartan. Sister Hansen on left
Sister Wagar in orange ironing Sister Lowrey in black ironing, Sister Hansen in beige with back to camera and Sister Boden in white shirt sewing

From left: Sister Wagar, Sister Brown, Sister Ferguson, Sister Jones, Sister Boden

Me
From left: Sister Brown in front, me in Back, Sister Boden in Back, Sister Wagar, Sister Ferguson
Sister Boden and I do all the sewing and the other sisters fold and iron. We usually do all the cutting on a night previous to our sewing night. We have a system and it goes fast.  Sister Brown appreciates that we can sew so many in just a couple hours when it took her weeks by herself.  (What was she thinking??)

  Until next time




The Jacobite Train Ride

We went on a train ride last weekend up in the highlands. It was a 84 mile round trip ride. The trip started in Fort William to Mallaig and back again.  It was a little disappointing in that there was so many trees and rocky hills along the track that we didn't get to see much country.  We were able to take a few pictures when there was a break in the foliage and or rocks. Because we took pictures from the train window there is a lot of window glare in the pictures.  The Jacobite train is the train that was used for the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter movies.  Except the engine that pulled us was black instead of the red one in the movies.





The purple flowers is heather, it is just blooming now and is beautiful

just a beautiful view

Cool old church that is just sitting out in the middle of nowhere



Jacobite train

Jacobite train engine













Mallaig

Mallaig the small sea port village at end of train ride. There was about a two hour layover there until we got back on train to head back to Fort Williams.

The picture of the waterfall was taken on the drive as we were heading home.






That's all for this trip..