We had a momentous week. The children went to the Tercero's house to work on the farm and spend the night.

Here are some fotos of the main event!

What could be better than a machete!?! Abe and Henry went immediately to the machete and here is Abe pausing, and posing, while he chops branches for the stove. He is a great worker and loves to chop wood (and other things) with the machete.

Hermana Tercero walking back to the house on the hill. They live on about 250 acres of mountain paradise. Walking back to the house, you can see the banana and coffee plantation in the background, with the house rising up out of the banana trees. One of my friends who visited, mentioned that we should get some kind of ecotourism going at their house. I mentioned it to Hno. Tercero--he thought it was a great idea. With the right marketing, it could be a real money maker, I think.

This moth was just sitting and tasting something on this leaf. These brown moths are pretty common up at the Tercero's house. You can't have a Honduran blog post without some cool bugs!

Each afternoon/evening, the calves have to be separated from the cows, so that there is milk for the morning milking. This is one of the more lively of the two calves tied up in the coffee/banana plantation.

The foreground is a plant that looks like elephant ears plant, but it is called malanga and is a different genus and species in the same family. The purple streaked roots are eated like yuca (cassava) or sometimes in chips. At the store, variety chips come with pieces of malanga, sweet potato, potato, etc. It isn't as popular as other root plants (yuca, potato), but it is easy to grow and does really well.


More photos of the activity are available to see for free at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52577150@N07/sets/72157630761648316/

Ranae took nearly all of these--they are all really great!

More text to come...I just couldn't find the actual blog that everyone wrote that describes what happened.

We'll be home in two weeks!