Sunday August 1. Sunday’s seem to slow down. Perhaps because we have more time to get ready to go out of the apartment. It is always hot and so I carry my suit jacket rather than wear it. Even so I have sweat running off my face when I put it on prior to the start of the meeting. But even though it is always hot in the church on Sunday I still think it is the best day of the week. The people started coming and coming until there were 63 attending. The best previous number was 45. A 40% increase. After church we headed home and I cooked hamburgers and french fries, a tossed salad and we had fruit salad for desert. It was time to watch sacrament meeting back in Pingree with the time difference and we got to watch Tucker be blessed. We started calling the family and over the next couple hours we visited with most of them. We went with the missionaries on a visit and at one point we were in front of the ocean and whoever we were talking with got to see it. We arrived home and while we were eating a late supper we talked to the ones we had missed talking with. A good day. The picture of grandma was taken on the way home from church and we have used this same bush many times before. When the wind blows lots of the flowers blow off but it keeps looking better each week. Kenna and Ashley asked about whales along with others. Last p-day while making the rounds of windmills I also had us visit several historic whaling sites. According to their history the açores have used whale hunting as a substantial part of their economy. The huge processing ships from America came and hired many locals, but the natives continued in the traditional ways. They had lookouts where men spent days watching for whales.
Then signaling the people they went out in small sailboats and
harpooned the whale and hours or days later when the whale died he would float and using sails and oars tow the whale to large ramps that look like boat ramps. There they used steam powered winches to drag them out and start processing them.
The most valuable part was the whale oil. The ruins off one factory where the oil was processed is here.
They quit when it became illegal in1974. So until I learn more or go whale watching this will have to do. We love you all.
3 comments:
That’s cool that you got to watch Tucker’s blessing. So interesting about the whale hunting too!
Thanks for the information on the whales, I hope you can go whale watching sometime and if you do, can you take a picture of one? Have you seen one out in the ocean while you were walking? I had fun talking to you and grandma with Kenna and Tucker! Love you both! Love Ashley!
it's fun to hear about Portugal, Azores island, how different it is up there than Idaho, they have a lot of cool architecture. and the way they used to whale hunt. love you both.
- love Whitney.
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