I’ve been friends with Katrina since high school. Well, I’ve known her since high school, but we didn’t become friends till we were in college in different states. It’s a long story.

Anyway, she’s one of my best friends in Omaha, and her three boys are some of Annalie’s favorite people, so we try to see them whenever we’re in town. This visit, it worked out that we got to go paint pottery together WITHOUT kids.

Katrina asked if I could teach her how to paint dottery, and I was happy to do so. Katrina and I must think the same way, because it’s incredibly easy to teach her things. I can say something like, “The dots don’t matter so much, but you want the circles to be like this,” while gesturing vaguely with my fingers, and Katrina will say, “Oh! Got it,” when I suspect most people would be tearing their hair out in frustration. (Go check out Katrina’s photo of us painting. She’s doing 7 Days this week too!)

As long as I’m posting my 7 Days photos every day this week, I may as well post our photos for Troy, eh? This is Day 142. Yeah, it’s a stretch, but it was the only photo I got today that had both of us in it. You can just baaaaarely see my reflection in the glass.

I uploaded 50 or 60 photos to Flickr tonight. There are at least three or four posts that need to be written about them, but I won’t be doing that tonight. It’s late and I still have some crocheting to do before I go to bed. I will post this one photo, though, so I can ask Bekah, Sarah, or Sonja to translate the German for me. (This is painted on the wall in the new Wheatfields Express in the Old Market. Katrina, Kassie, Joe, I assume we’re planning on going to the original Wheatfields? This one’s so small it might not hold all of us.)

While I’m at it, here are Days 140 and 141 for Troy—in the pretty bathroom at OJ’s and shopping at Big Lots. Here’s hoping I get more time to write posts about all those photos in the next few days.