Potato Harvest.....

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22

God faithfully cares and provides for us...

~Day 1

This morning dawned and we stretched out our stiffness, and made fried potatoes and scrambled eggs! It was pretty good if I do say so myself! Then we set into wait for Alicia, she said she would come at 7:30, but we must remember this is Ecuador and they don't run on time like America so about 9 am she comes, gives us a pile of corn sticks and tells us to follow her mama. The tiniest little Indigenous lady you have ever seen! So we set off with a herd of sheep for the garden. We spent a couple hours digging up potatoes. It was actually a lot of fun, it was so surreal  Here we are on the side of a mountain in Ecuador digging in a garden with a Indigenous lady! She is 65 and the definition of "healthy as a horse"! She could outwork me any day of the week! We dug up two feed sacks of potatoes then headed to the grass patch to cut it for the guinea pigs. Alicia gave us little machete sickles and we started cutting.....and kept cutting......and kept cutting....then her mom and her came and cut for awhile. Her mom was so fast!! So when we had 4 big bundles that we tied with big scarves and carried them out to the road. They were quite impressed with my strength, telling me continually that I could stay here and help them. When we were done and washed up, her mom gave us a plate a fresh boiled corn and potatoes, I hadn't realized how hungry I was! So we ate up with some coke to wash it all down. Then we carried the sacks of potatoes out to the road for her brother to come pick up and take to the house. It started raining just as we were finishing so they sent us home and Alicia told us she would be by to see us later....

The only thing we have found here that is whiter than us....well when they are clean they are!

Hard at work!

Fresh Potato's!

Cutting grass.....

I don't look at professional as her! But I was loving the rubber boots!

It was a slow process....

haha ya, just a little break...

My load....

Lunch

Inside the shack.....

Lunch cooking...

So we waited and waited and napped and waited... Her little nephew came by and entertained us for awhile then about 3 1/2 hrs later she came...apparently she had fallen asleep. :)

trying to stay warm....I was so cold!

Our little friend!

The warm alpaca poncho!!

This is Ecuador and there is one pace, slow. They never even walk fast! So then we just sat down and visited, she showed us the Guinea pigs, they have 70, then we picked some corn for supper. She gave us some ponchos to wear because we were so cold! We meandered us to her nieces house and she showed me my sewing project for tomorrow then we went to prayer at her church and meandered and wandered till dark. Then she sent us on our way home, but all the houses look the same with a corn field and fences....so we walked and walked trying to find ours. We thought we were getting close when we passed two ladies and they asked if we were lost, we said, a little and they said, you are staying just ahead. The whole village knows where the two white girls are staying! Its so funny!

I feel like I fit in, until I look around me and see people staring at me...

So we arrived at home, had warm showers and a supper of fresh corn, rice and fried eggs! Then settled in for another night on the straw mat....