This morning we dropped our cooks of the last two weeks, Hap and Deb, off at the airport for their flight home to Pennsylvania, then went on to church with two of the other longtermers from Oregon. The top picture is of the building where the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren hold joint services. The Friends group meets at the same time on the other side of the complex. The picture below of the round building is the one they are building as a Peace Center. Last week they took us on a tour of the inside of this building which is made out of rice straw bales. I didn't get inside this week to take a picture of the bales.
After church we came back to camp for a much needed nap! When I woke up I wrote some postcards to the grandkids and friends, but didn't get much more accomplished. Our new group of short term volunteers arrived by two shuttles buses about 5:30. We let them get settled, then had orientation at 7. This is the first group we've had that has females! That should be a nice change.
Here are some more pictures from yesterday's expedition:
This is the farming with the border fence. They were setting sprinkler pipe in the ditches between the raised beds. I'd sure like to know what they have planted there...
These are some of the whimsical "boulder creatures" at one of the stops we made. The succulent below was blooming nearby.
where were those boulder 'creatures'? Interesting!
ReplyDeleteI think I mentioned before that I was raised in a Church of the Brethren. There aren't too many around, so it was fun to hear about the building where joint services are held for both CoB and Mennonite.
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