One of the things we really enjoy doing is meeting with the members in their homes. We see all kinds of homes – some are very nice and some are very humble. However no matter what the building itself may be like, the people are 99.9% of the time clean and happy. 

It is summer here and that means it is hot – really hot and humid. Few homes have air conditioning and many do not even have a fan. So people will sit outside in the shade and hope to catch a breeze that often blows at this time of the year. When we visited sister Mary’s home we found her and her two children lying under a very full tree enjoying the shade and trying to keep cool.

As we went to turn around to head out from sister Mary’s we saw this fence full of laundry. They had run out of room on their clothes line and so used what ever was handy. It reminded us of our time in Indonesia when even the middle of Jakarta it was not unusual to see clothes drying on fences and once even on a divider fence in the middle of very busy highway. You just learn to make do with what you have available.

 

Now while there is truly little to see and do that is exciting around our area, I think we sunk to a new low today. Mary has wanted to take a road in Promosa that we often see but have never traveled. It promises that after traveling 5.4K we will come to the municipal dump. The road runs over gentle hills and is surrounded by beautiful summer green grass and lots of trees. At the end we found just as advertised the latest section of the landfill. While I can not recommend the trip to visitors, I do wish I had taken some pictures of the scenery along the way.