This cute little guy is the local broom salesman.

He walks the streets endlessly, from car to car

and from business to business.

This is the antique coconut shredder. This baby

is old. I can git 'er don with this thing.

these pigs were all scraped cleaned and gutted

ready far the barbecue . it was a very hot

day and they didn't smell too good.

What do you think this is? It is a fresh picked

coconut. After you chop the end off, you make

a little hole and suck out the "Buco" juice. Then

you peal away the outer cover, and crack open

hard coconut. Inside the coconut is yogurt-like

you eat with a spoon.

Mam and a Caribou. Lots of Caribou in these parts.

Here is Francisco showing me how to scrape
the coconut meat onto a plate. It comes out
shredded like we use at home. The tool he
is using is a Filipino antique, possibly 75-100
years old. That left leg on
Francisco is a fake one.


This is mid-day on a main street we travel
to work. People just walk around them. They
are exhausted from begging on the streets.
Notice the carboard under them.

how many riders

in one trixicab? we

think 10 is max.

Francico cutting open a

coconut for me. it is

really good.

OJ wanted this picture of a
jeep from the war in 1941

Our adopted family at the mall.

the young girl is Rosie, maybe

she will join the church later.

she would be a fun pen pal for

Jaxon, Mariah,Makayla, or

Ashlyn.

time flies

making a living

a hard days work
the old way

gas stations, buy by the coke bottle

a cool ride

trucking them in

there are so many interesting things over here,

but i get used to them and start thinking it's ordinary.
some of the things i wanted to mention is that the advertizing

in this part of the world, all of asia is so different than the U.S.

none of the magazines carry personel care items or revealing

clothes. in other word even the ads are modest. it's the catholic

church who is in control and i see some good things about

that. there youth are so much more inocent than ours.

we took the young family that is in our blog to the mall last

week for family home evening. we bought pizza and sat in the

mall and watched the waterfalls and enjoyed the beautiful

park like atmosphere. we then walked through the mall.

there eyes were so wide open and Pablo said that he didn't

think he could come in the mall because his skin was so dark.

we opened their eyes up to a whole new world. i hope they are

brave enough to go again on there own.

they are going to be baptized as soon as they can get married.

it has been a problem to get Gena a birth certifac so some one

is working on that. she is expecting a new baby in about 2 weeks.