Photos from the visit to the garden

Hi, Ruth put out the photos and I am seeing if I can add words. This is Jubilee and her friend Natalie or Natalia as her family cals her. Jubi wanted to give one of her hats to Natalie. They had met a few days earlier and Natalie's aunt and mom invited Jubi and I to spend the day at their family garden outside of town.

It is a very interesting concept. Everyone lives so close together in the city but often have small plots of land for gardens. This one is possible as large as our property in Benbrook, two house lots. They purchased the empty land ten years ago and it is a small paradise. Very beautiful with a tiny little houselet. The "house" has a basement, a SMALL kitchen and a sleeping room. Across the lot is small bathroom and shower. There are two formal garden sections with rows and rows of yummy things. In the middle is green grass and cherry and apple trees and a beautiful pond.

This is Jubilee and Natalie playing in the plastic bathtub. They had SO MUCH FUN!!!! Renate, Natalie's mom, got the water from the shower and it was nice and warm, heated from a tank on the top of the building, solar heat! We might have to come bath out here next week as there will be no hot water in GLogow from teh 12 through the 21st (if all goes well, sooo- who knows how long it will be).



Here are the girls swinging. and part of Big Boy David who is about Josiah's age.

This is Renate teaching Jubi to find STRAWBERRIES in the garden. Jubilee had never picked food before and seh loved it. I don't know why this is underlined. Bummer. She picked strawberries from the bushes adn cherries from the trees. It was a very good day and Jubi got very very dirty.

Natalie and her brother David. He loves Natalie the way my boys love Jubilee. It is a very beautiful thing. See Jubi in the background on the blanket? A great place to rest and take a nap.


It was a good day. the next day she fell asleep by 10:45 in the morning. She was so worn out, but it was good and we hope to return. We were invited out the next day b ut Jubi was sleeping. We both get very tired here in Poland. So much new to absorb, but it is good adn we are getting to really know and enjoy each other. Jubi is hungery so I better feed her. Love, Gwen