We enjoy inviting people to our house and blessing them with our hospitality. Whether it's the LDC staff who stay with us for a few weeks in spring, or one of Gabriela's friends who comes for a sleepover, or just friends from church who join us for a meal or a cup of coffee, we enjoy welcoming them to our home. Whenever people came to us for the first time and we gave them directions, we always told them, "Drive up the avenue and it's on the right hand side. You can't miss it; it's the blue house."Well, we won't be saying that any more. As of today, "la casa azúl" is no more. Like some other houses in town, it suffered "cosmetic" damage during many winter months of torrential rain, so the owner arranged for the insurance company to cover the costs of repainting the facade and damp-proofing our extra downstairs room (which used to be the garage.) The front of the house was painted today and is now "almond" instead of blue. The indoor painting will happen tomorrow, and then probably the window bars the following day.
We still hope to welcome many friends to our home; it's just not going to be "the blue house" any more.
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