Grandmother’s Post

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We just spent two days visiting our friends in Bogor, Elder and Sister Kane. They are Humanitarian missionaries and we visited some of their projects with them. We traipsed around in the mountains visiting water projects which supply running water to homes in small villages which before always had to bring water to their homes in small buckets. It was very interesting to see cloves spread out on canvas tarps or in wicked baskets drying in the sun. Also I got to see a rice mill in action while the others were hiking up a very steep trail to see another portion of a water project. When we were finished we ate lunch in a small cottage (all built of bamboo) beside a spectacular river and I walked across a suspension bridge to a small group camping area on an island in the middle of the river. After lunch someone told us the seashore was only 10 kilometers away so we drove down to the beach. We took lots of beautiful pictures and I waded in the surf and collected a handful of small shells. When I get home I can add them to the shells I have collected from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. (Not a valuable collection, but one with memories.) During the trip we saw tea plantations, teakwood trees, rice paddies, cloves and rice being dried in the sun, rubber trees, papaya trees,  banana trees, coconut trees and palm oil trees–quite a variety of agriculture.



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