Such Interesting Flowers

These are such interesting flowers. I have always loved them. They are about 1 foot long and sometimes grow even longer. The plant they come from looks similar to a banana plant. This plant is useless, it's a bother to many gardeners. It grows wild. But, look at its uniqueness. Look at its colors. Why did God create this strange, good-for-nothing flower that looks so amazing?...probably just so that I could stand here and marvel at His creations...and Him.

Edson's weakness

One thing this kid loves is a good, cool watermelon. If he sees anyone, anywhere, eating watermelon he will ask for it. This will become his breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack or whatever...whenever. He can't say what it is yet, so he says..."Este" meaning "this" while pointing and insisting.
He loves watermelon and he loves raw peanuts right out of the shells.

Cheese Time!

Can you guess how many kilos (or pounds) this is? If you guess right should I send you some? It might be roquefort by the time it gets to you! Some Canadians know how THAT smells!

Ummm! A typical Paraguayan will use this cheese on bread with jelly, cut up in chunks floating in molasses, make batter with bits of cheese and fry it...here that is called tortilla. They will pinch it in tiny bits for cornbread (sopa paraguaya) or corn sufflé (chipa guazú). They will make cheese bread (chipa), stir it in rice or noodles, mix it in with vegtable soups, make cornmeal and cheese dumplings, pizza, and so much more. It is $3.00 a kilo...fresh from San Pedro!

Bright Colors of Paraguay

I love the bright colors of Paraguay. Whole trees in bloom just lift my spirits. How can a whole tree have so many flowers? I wish I could have every tree in Paraguay that blooms in different shades of purple, pink, red, orange, white and yellow. I love it when the flowers fall on the ground and you have to sweep up colorful flowers. I love it when they blow across the street with the wind. I saw a little street-boy in town the other day pick up a handfull of flowers from the ground that fell off the tree. He threw them up in the air while he stood underneath. He seemed so happy. (Oscar reached out and gave him a quarter...then he was even happier!) These beautiful, earthly colors are just a reminder of the beautiful, heavenly colors we will soon see!

My Little Christmas Angel

I just got these pictures from Ben and Vivi. I didn't take my camera the night we had our Christmas program at church. The teachers had all the little kids dress up as angels. All of them had on wings, except Edson. He would NOT put them on. He did go forward to sing and then found a microphone to show off with a bit.

Summer Days...

I have a bad cold in the middle of summer! I think it may be getting better, but I'm still very congested. I couldn't even drink cold water or terere. Can you imagine drinking hot tea on a hot afternoon break? I still toss and turn at night. My nose is stuffed up. I have a little cough and fans seem to make things worse. But...I'll get better. I'm sure of it! You know, moms can't stay sick for too long!
We went to San Pedro last week...that's why I was so silent for a couple of days. Weekends are so full of activities that I usually don't do computer stuff. Yesterday I took my little friend to the mall for her birthday. We had fun looking at everything and then we even stopped at McDonalds for a hamburger. It looked like it was going to rain all day and finally did at night...all night. (I left the computer unplugged all day long.) There was still rain, thunder and lightning this morning when we woke up.
Right now things are cool, calm and quiet.
These are my summer days.

Some of our visitors this past month...December