We love taking walks around the place where we live. It is such a blessing to live out in the country away from the noise, heavy traffic and pollution of the large city in this country. Here is Melody and myself walking back home after going to our gardener's home for a meal during Eid time. The road is quite dusty at this time of year and the fields are dry and yellow, with a beauty of their own. Behind us is a very green patch where people have rice plant seedlings growing. A few days or week later they will transplant them and spread them out evenly all over the fields. The fields will then be immersed with water pumped up with a diesel water pump. During the wet seasons when there is rain there is of course, no need for pumps which saves the farmer a lot of money. We really enjoy observing how people do agriculture work here. It will be interesting to see the changes to more advance technology in the future. Already more and more tractors are being used, versus the simple plows pulled by white cows or water buffaloes. I think I will miss seeing some of the old ways go, even though it was such hard work for the farmer to plow a little plot of land. Hopefully, though, newer farmer knowledge can help provide more food and better ways to use the land! It is amazing to me to think of how God has created men and women with all these various ideas and ways of working the land.
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