The Lord's light will shine in truth and follies...

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Today I will be posting Days 22-24: Wednesday to Friday of my trek in Costa Rica.

  On Wednesday Tammy taught me how to make homemade ketchup. 

The ingredients: Onion salt, garlic powder, sugar, white vinegar, and tomato paste. 

It was so easy that I could do this at home. 

Today we headed out to the city of Limon. Did I tell you we go through the banana 

plantation every time we get off the Mountain? We stopped at the banana plantation 

warehouse supply- the ATM bank is right next to it. Inside those blue bags are the bananas. 

The blue bags are lined with chemicals for pesticide and to stop 

the ripening stage of the bananas on the trees.

 We had to stop in the middle of the dirt road because the bananas were 

carried off on a cable sending it to the warehouse supply building.

 We are in the city of Limon- about an hour and ½ drive into the city. The stores 

were closed for Lunch. They have lunch for an hour and half. Imagine if we have

 that kind of lunch break in NJ. WOW! So we had to find something to eat if 

anything was open during that time. We found ice cream for lunch.

We initially went to Limon for Christopher. We noticed that he was having trouble

 seeing so I said he needs to get his eyes checked. Sure enough he needs glasses. 

He takes that after his mom (Tammy). (P.S. Doesn't Jesus look good in glasses?? Haha)

 

We visited the Fabric shop in Limon. I loved the visit to that one shop. 

They had all kinds of fabric. Tammy and I picked out few fabrics to make panties. 

Oh the panties are going to be beautiful!!! 

Thursday I couldn't wait to work on new fabrics to make panties. It was hot and my

 hair is getting longer so I had to wear a bandana to keep me cool and keep

 my hair out of my eyes. I was having a great time with the new fabrics.

There are no lawn mowers here in this part of Costa Rica. Christopher is using the 

weedwacker to cut down the grass around the main house and bodega. 

Here is a close up one of Christopher and his weedwacker.

They have ducks on this farm. This one really likes the whey that was intended for the dogs.

Friday I was cleaning the porch on the main house. Here I am scrubbing the floor. 

Notice the tiles on the porch. Quite pretty. One disadvantage of having free range 

chickens is that they will poop on the porch as well as the ducks and the turkeys. 

Oh I almost forgot Rio the parrot on the porch as well. 

Beautiful sunset on the horizon of the mountains.

More pics of the sunset on the mountains.

End of these three days of my trek in Costa Rica. This week we had problems

 with electricity and internet. They keep going off on us several times a day.

 One of continuous problems of living on the mountains. Oooh I do miss the fan 

when the power goes out! Humidity is very high up here on the mountains.

 I love my bandanas and cooling bandanas- they really do keep me cool.

I have 2 more weeks left of my journey in Costa Rica. I hope to make the best

 of my time here. Tammy thinks this will be my last visit here to Costa Rica. 

She may be right. So we will spend most of the last 2 weeks of quality time together. 

 I love my cousin Tammy as if she is my younger sister.

End of days 22 to 24 of my trek this week.

More to come when electricity and internet is available.

Jen

Blessings of the Field...

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Here we are on Tuesday, Day 21 of my trek in Costa Rica. Today is an exciting day,

  I have been given the honor of having one of their sheep killed for meat.

Jesus and his knives, getting ready to kill a ram. 

Jesus killed the ram and is bringing it to a area to be skinned and cut into pieces.

Christopher and Jesus working on skinning the ram.

All the outer fur of the ram is off now. It's time to cut it into pieces.

Jesus working on cutting the meat into small pieces.

Tammy is rubbing a combination of salt and garlic into the meat.

The end pieces of the ram is ground down into ground meat. 

Check out the hand held grinder. Christopher ground the meat by hand.

What a good workout for Christopher!

We had lamb for dinner that night. It was very delicious!!

Like my new hat? Do I look good in it??

This afternoon we went to visit the cattle and calves. The mama cow(named Moodini) 

has humungous horns. A little too scary for me to be that close to them. 

One of them is not too nice, I literally stood behind Tammy when they arrived into the stall area.

This little calf is Simcha. She loves me scratching her face.

Simcha rubbed her face into my face. Soo cute!

This calf is named Buttercup. She is a friendly little babe. There is another calf but 

she is really skitterish, she won't come near me. Poor thing! The other two were 

very nice and friendly. They will grow big with humungous horns just like their Mamas'.

Ohh, I almost forgot, another unexpected surprise, a baby lamb was born on

 Sunday afternoon. I couldn't hold the baby lamb until few days later because

 the mama sheep was very skitterish due to being a new mommy.

It was an exciting day for Day 21 of my trek in Costa Rica.

More to come of my journey of Costa Rica. I am enjoying being here and I am 

feeling much better than when I first got here. God has really blessed us all 

while I am here visiting. Keep praying for well being and safety of my stay here.

Thank you...

Jen

More Blessings on the Farm

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This is Sunday and Monday, days 19 and 20 of my trek in Costa Rica.

Here is Tammy crossing the creaking walk bridge over the river that I was talking about.

A baby lamb was born on Friday afternoon. She was soo soft and such an adorable little baby.

Coconut from the back yard. They have plenty of coconuts around here.

My mom gave Tammy a packet of herbs.

Tammy and I are planting the herbs. 

Tammy taught me how to make deodorant with pharmaceutical

 strength baking soda, thieves, coconut oil and a scent.

 

Tammy and I just having a conversation at the table. 

Christopher got a hold of my camera and took pics of us talking

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Coco beans. Christian got lots of them. Christian… chocolate cake??

Inside of the coco bean shell.

A look of inside the coco beans before drying them out.

Christopher climbed up the tree barefoot. Crazy Kid!!

Christopher cutting down the tree with a chainsaw. Making room to be able 

to back out the car onto the dirt road. The dirt road is too narrow, making it difficult to back out.

The tree is down. Now all three men cutting and chopping up the tree with big knives. 

They have giant knives here in Costa Rica. 

Now the driveway is bigger—easier to get to the road now.

End of Sunday and Monday, days 19 and 20 of my journey in Costa Rica. 

It's been a busy 2 days for me here. The weather has been wonderful here. 

God really blessed us with good weather. Since the weather has been nice,

 I am hoping the bridge will be built soon. Wouldn't that be nice!!! Last I heard 

was that they were working on putting the frame of the bridge together. 

May the Lord bless these people on the Mountains with a bridge soon.

More to come of my trek in Costa Rica.

Jen

The Fearsome and the Meek...

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Today we will be covering Thursday and Friday, Days 16 and 17 of my trek of Costa Rica.

I had a terrible day on Day 16. It all started when I first woke up in the morning.

 I turned over and looked outside my window. Behold, there was a huge humongous 

spider on the window. I literally freaked out. What a horrible way to wake up first 

thing in the morning… before my first cup of tea,...uggh!!

I was glad to see that the spider was on the outside of my window.

 Still, I was still freaking out over it.Way too close to my bedroom! I literally dragged

 Tammy away from the kitchen to see this spider to prove that it really was big. 

She's like “you are weird, you are not afraid of snakes but you are of spiders.” 

I'm telling you, this one is BIG!! Later Jesus removed the spider for me, I was relieved!! 

I am having a sick day (literally). Tammy thinks the spider caused the Migraine. 

I forgot to bring my migraine medicine. So here I am resting in bed. Tammy 

dropped off pile of clothes on me to fold while I was in bed. I manged to fold the 

clothes without moving my head. Not a good day for me and my migraine.

Day 17

The storm is moving away later in the morning. Tammy said it rained so hard

 last night that it kept them up during the middle of the nght. Me… I slept like a log. 

There are good things in having a hearing loss. I don't hear the rain or thunder to 

wake me up nor the rooster crowing in the morning. I sleep very well thru the night.

We are making “Challah” bread for Sabbath. 

I am braiding the bread. It's quite easy to do.

 I am putting butter on the “Challah” bread and ready to bake in the oven. 

We will use this bread for Sabbath service tonight.

Here is Christopher on his horse. Doesn't he look good in his hat?! 

He is a handsome young fella. He is a true farmer; works hard on the farm. 

He takes great care of the animals on the farm. 

Tammy on her horse. Tammy has always had love for horses ever since she was a small child. 

Now it's their main transportation on the Mountain.

Tammy, Jesus, and Christopher are heading down to the river, across the rickety 

walk bridge to pickup their car. It was in the shop. They are going to get Luis from

 the hospital. He was in a very bad motorcycle accident. He is ready to leave the

 hospital. It is not possible for him to get on a bus to get home with his leg injury. 

So Jesus went to pick him up to go home.

 Here is Luis's leg. He has pins in his right leg and broke a couple of toes on his left foot.

A baby lamb was born this afternoon. It is such a precious sight to see a new baby 

being born next to the house. Soo adorable. I got to hold the lamb the next day

 (not even 24 hrs old yet). She was soo soft and such an adorable little thing!!

 The Mama sheep didn't mind me holding the lamb.

Friday sunset to Saturday sunset is Sabbath for Tammy and her family. Since Tammy
and Jesus are away at this time, Christian will lead the Sabbath service tonight.

No blog during this time out of respect for the family during their time of Sabbath.

End of the 16^th and 17 days of my trek of Costa Rica. Please continue to pray for

 my well being while I am still here in Costa Rica. May the Lord Jesus continue 

to bless me and I enjoy bringing you the joys of seeing my journey of Costa Rica.

Jen