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Sunday April 24, 2016
I will apologize right away for the quality of these photos taken with the small Samsung in JPG format. A person has so lettle to work with as opposed to shooting RAW format with the big camera.
Much of my day is still taken up with walking Mariposa and Turi 5-7 times a day and I should learn to bring the small camera with me every time because there is usually some interesting sight on the way. It is always scary when I release the leashes so they can frolick a bit because occasionally they scream off at the sight of another dog, sometimes blindly running into the street. Today, on two occasions, a very large dog took umbrage at their sudden appearance and Turi and Mariposa paid the price. Maybe they will think twice from now on.
Toxic and I headed to Turi to volunteer for Hearts Of Gold at the Mikhuna Food Bank this morning. I wandered around at first trying to see if anyone would flag me in to do something but mostly there were Ecuadorians sitting around on a break. The only evident work going on was in the Donations room and at the "garage" near the front entrance where they were busy packing up bags of toilet paper and baby sundries.
I asked if I could help, and one lovely girl responded in English to start by bringing bunches of toilet paper from the Donations room. Then was to help with filling the bags. The hardest part of the whole operation was opening the darn bags.
Even though almost all of the toilet paper was pre-packaged, they wanted eveything put in these black garbage bags, taped and labeled to various towns affected by the Apr 16 earthquake. This way most of the packages were of uniform shape and size for easy stacking. Even though I had the foresight to wear my back brace I was very thankful when we were done this task. All that bending takes its toll on this old body. Helping out, even just a little bit, helps relieve the pressure on a lot of these other volunteers and it does the heart good to constribute a little to help these hard-working people.
I read a report on Facebook that is very disheartening about the future of the coast in the aftermath of the quake. Fish have left the area, tourism will be nil, countless jobs are lost, real estate is dead, housing is in short supply,.... and on and on. And, if the experts are right, the worst could be yet to come if "The Big One" hits soon. You never could pay me to live anywhere on the Pacific coast. I have never trusted Mother Nature there.
I hope you enjoy the photos. That was the day's
excitement, Cheers,
Al
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| This is that bench chain-sawed out of that fallen tree, very inventive! |
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| Turi and Mariposa ready to frolick |
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| Mariposa has learned to grab Turi's leash and control her |
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| Play-fighting is a big part of their play time |
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| The donations room is the hub for sending stuff for packaging |
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| This area had many jugs of water to send to the coast |
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| The lovely view of Cuenca from up there |
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| Packaging up stuff to go west |
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| This lovely gal spoke good English |
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| Great group of hard-working volunteers |
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| Lots of packages ready to go |
