"Last night was our first-ever CCRFund-raiser. I wish you and all of friends and supporters and donors could have been there. We will have a LOT of photos and I will post them on both our Web Site and Ofoto and share them with anyone who wants to see what happened. It was magic, nothing less.
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"The countryside is blooming and bearing already. At least one grain crop, maybe oats (who can tell?), is golden and ready to be harvested. There are farmers in all the hay fields bringing in the first hay crop.

Old wooden carts piled impossibly high with hay, drawn by a single old donkey with a similarly old man at the reins, maybe both with similar straw hats. The corn is up and the sunflower fields more . . . "

"There are new lambs everywhere and the baby goats (kids, right?) are just now arriving. We saw several that couldn’t have been more than an hour or two old. The weather turned to overcast and sprinkles once we got into the Kaheti region, where Telavi is, but it never got much worse than a heavy mist. more . . ."

"I met some British officers last winter. Nice guys who thought they might like to help out at Dzegvi Children’s Home. We took a bunch of them out there, they seemed interested, then we sort of lost contact.

Have you ever met any Brits? For me, only a small handful - more . . ."