Tuesday July 27. This morning we put on our walking clothes and headed out. We decided to head in a new direction even though it showed little promise of being interesting. Our route was straight up the hill on which we live. We decided to go for a half hour and then return. We passed the John Deere dealership and then we entered a different sort of section. At the start the only intersection we came to for the rest of our walk was a display case of a man dressed in old style clothes pulling a cart with milk cans, and a pouring picther to dispense milk at the houses. I guess he was supposed to represent the early form of milkman. There were a bunch of old antique, heavy, sort of crude farm tools also.
Continuing on straight one side of the road was filled up with nice maintained homes which kept grandma taking pictures almost nonstop.
The other side had an occasional nice home but usually was made up of old unmaintained buildings.
On occasion there were access points leading back in to farm areas. The whole area had a barnyard smell mostly of corn silage. We went a little over our time limit to see over the next bump but it just continued on with not end in sight. Looking back going down hill the ocean looked far away. Like a day of walking away. Grandma kept taking pictures of flowers. At this rate she will have to buy storage on google photos. Isn’t that good. I have to keep teasing her she still has over a year left. But maybe the flowers won’t always be in bloom. We had district meeting and then I had to contact the office and sign a paper to get a mission card. Finally we got to go home and eat. It was after 2 pm and since it was the first meal of the day we had hamburgers, french fries, (one of two things the french got right) and salad. It was good to eat and relax. We sat around til time to try and visit some more members. In Portugal you visit people in their homes after 5 pm. We were up and ready but looking out the window I could see a storm coming on the ocean and it started to rain. So plan b I called the branch president and tried to figure out the situation from the meeting of Sunday night. I need to think on that some more and get more input from grandma and others. It is interesting how many of the same problems encountered in larger wards are here only instead of groups being devided it is individuals who have differences. Love you all.
3 comments:
That's very interesting about the wards in Portugal. The old apartment building looks almost haunted. The milkman cart looks freshly painted, and the tools are cool. Love you both so much! Love Ashley!
John Deere milk cart. It would be really cool to buy an old place and remodel it.
It would be really cool to remodel an old place. Member support is always hard and you certainly have a lot to do.
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