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This
was a stop in a little town close to where Semmas parents
lived where we stopped to buy provisions for the weekend
festivities. |
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A local butcher shop were we
bought the meat (beef, lamb and chicken) for our weekend.
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Just a couple of km on the
road into the village we noticed a poor calf on the side of
the road in the 35 degree heat and decided to stop and give
it some water and see that it got to a water trough. The
folks then contacted its owner |
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Taking the calf to the water
facility ... with the village in the background. |
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Arrival at Semmas parents
home ... a lovely spot with a lush garden
in an otherwise dry and hot landskape. |
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The bread storage cupboard
... It is dry hard bread here but moistened up with water
before serving it on the table. |
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Diniz with her mom picking
berries in her grandmas garden,. |
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Mustafa helping me visit with
Semmas dad ... as we wait for the tea to be ready! |
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Tanner and Demir getting
things ready for the evening barbeque ... |
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Filling up bottles at the community water
well. They have water and sewer in the home ... but
get drinking water here at a village facility. |
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Somewhat of a gathering spot
for village folks. |
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This is a view of the
village from the community well ... probably 50 -100 people
live here. |
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We met this lovely older
lady at the well .. and helped her home with her water ...
she let me take a picture of her outside her yard. |
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Deniz went with me to see
a wheat field close to her grandparents home. |
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The family has a tradition
of playing a game together in the evenings ... and we got to
watch. I won't say who won!! |
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Sorry that we just missed
the grain harvest ... but it apparently was a good crop this
year. |
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On a morning walk with
Mustafa and Birsen ... a country side a bit more rolling ...
but otherwise not so unlike my home in Saskatchewan. |
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Deniz was great at helping
me as a translator for her grandfather ... she studies
English at school and was quite good at helping us get to
know her grandparents. |
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On a day trip in the
countryside we stopped at this water source that Semmas dad
had built and donated to the community in memory of his mother that
grew up here. |
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Here we stopped at an
archaeological
excavation site where articfacts had been found from 6000
BC. These religious monuments were from 2000 - 3000
BC. .. Also a grave site from that time. |
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Lots of old stuff we were
impressed by ... but didn't really understand what they all
were!! |
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This showed the different
levels representing different periods of time here. |
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A stop for coffee in the
little town after the visit! |
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Another historical site ... The remains of a complete
city (the capital of the Hittite civilization) The
wall around this major city was 16 km long, |
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The remains of a city from
2000 BC ... an advanced period in history that apparently
fell for no particular reason than intern disagreement ... I
was impressed by the sizable grain storage (and oil storage)
facilities from that time. |
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Another stop for
refreshment after the heat of walking through a piece of
ancient history. |
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The final evening here,
the folks had arranged a lovely meal for us all as well as
some of the local farmers. |
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This was our wonderful
hosts for the weekend ... Semma on the left .. her sister on
the right and parents in the middle. |