FTC is in a holiday break now so the residential students are gone.  In their place we have a group of more non-traditional students who come in 3 times a year for short courses of 3 weeks.  Donna recently had an interesting discussion with several of the students.  They were talking about what foods we eat in the US.  As the conversation progressed, one of the students asked Donna if we eat pig (pronounced peeg).  Before she could respond, one of the other students said "No good Christian would eat pig".  Donna decided that was probably not the opportune time to tell them that when she was in high school, she was the Iowa Pork Princess.  She did, however admit to eating pig and that her father and brother both raised pigs.



As we prepare for building the solar panel structure, Jim asked a local carpenter to make some saw horses.  As it turns out, nobody here has ever seen or heard of a saw horse.  It took a lot of explanation and sketches, but the end product turned out quite well.