Appendicitis!

We had a good scare on Tuesday, well - I guess I had a good scare. David went to the doctors because Monday night he had horrible abdominal pains and didn't sleep all night long. A friend was nice enough to take him to Kaiser Tuesday morning and stay with him all day, and it turned out that David needed an emergency surgery to get his appendix removed. I was in Southern California training for work, so I drove back home once it was confirmed he was going under the knife.


Even though this was a routine procedure, I was still worried. Everything turned went well and I was able to bring him home Wednesday afternoon. He is in a lot of pain and it is hard for him to move around, but he will be alright. He isn't a needy sick person, I think I keep bugging him more asking if there is anything I can do for him. He should be back on his feet by next week. Thanks to everyone who called and came by the hospital to visit...we appreciate your concerns!

Our First Harvest

In Madera the Church owns an 80 acre vineyard, and once a year everyone comes out to help for the Harvest. What is interesting is that these grapes are used to make raisins that are shipped all over the world for the needy, and what is left over is sold to Sun Maid and the profit is put back into maintain the vineyard. We went out Saturday morning to start picking. It was actually really fun, minus seeing all the spiders.

We didn't know that the grapes were really "sun dried", but found out that they really are. They are laid out, and in a week someone goes out and turns them to make sure all of them dry out, then they put all the dried vines in bins and take them to get washed and whatever else they do to them to get the raisins we eat.

Here is my adorable husband picking grapes under the shady vine. He was very sweet, he let me choose the spots with less spider webs and spiders so I could pick in peace.

We got down and dirty, sweaty, and I even cut myself, but it was a different thing to do on a Saturday morning. In January they go through again and tie up the vines on all the wires, but I think I'll let David take care of that -- it pretty cold here in the winter from what everyone tells us. I'll stick to helping out in the nice summer mornings.