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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
| BCoF: Let's talk about Ethopian cuisine. There's a few things listed, what would you recommend for us to try and why? What did you think about the coffee section? What's your favorite hot beverage coffee, tea or hot chocolate?  I guess if I was to recommend a food to you it would be the Wat. It is a curry dish containing meat, maybe lamb or chicken; served on injera, which is a sourdough flatbread. I've cooked dishes similar to the sourdough flatbread. Actually, at some time in my life other mothers I knew were passing around the sourdough starter for flatbread. The stew Wat, has vegetables, and spices something close to a favorite dish in Cairo. My favorite hot beverage has always been tea. I say this puts me in peril because the people around here favor coffee as a rule. They seem to remember that tea was the beverage dumped in the bay while the coffee was not touched.  Any way, I don't drink a lot of hot chocolate. I never drink coffee. It makes me happy to see that so many of the places we are traveling to offer tea as a choice beverage.The priests that are in charge of worship in the churches are also farmers. They are educated by church to care for the worship services and take part in the social aspects of their village. One of them on a YouTube is far sighted enough to see the modernization that is coming into the local towns. He knows it will make some changes in the social attitudes of the people and is working toward educating some of the younger males of the villages, so if they leave and attend higher education they will understand the roots of their worship and culture. He is hoping that his sons will have a dual education as priests but also as doctors of medicine. I did not think the information I read took into account the upheavals in the area in the last few years. |
| Our trip has been customized to meet our needs.We will not be having the down time listed in the beginning. https://www.safaribookings.com/day/t21782 We're arriving and immediately leaving by plane to our adventure to Lalibela which is home to the 12th-century hand carved rock churches of King Lalibela (1181 - 1221) whom the town is named after. We'll have lunch in our hotel, then visit the first group churches of Lalibela (UNESCO World Heritage Site) which are found northeast of a stream named ‘River Jordan’. In a 1970 report of the historic dwellings of Lalibela, Sandro Angelini evaluated the vernacular earthen architecture on the Lalibela World Heritage Site, including the characteristics of the traditional earth houses and analysis of their state of conservation. ://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g480193-d7619296-Reviews-Tomb_of_A... Our meals are included but no alcoholic beverages so we're doing a brew tour. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g480193-d12133587-Reviews-Lalibela...  I found the tour of the churches interesting. In a way it is something that I view from a distance mentally, because when ever I see buildings like this I wonder how they came into being so many years ago. Were the people who built them willing participants in carving out the rooms? I toured the church in the sky. I'm not sure if I could take the crawl up the side of the mountain just to attend a service there. The inside was so artistic and beautiful. I watched a CNN documentary on PBS about the religion of the people of Ethiopia about 2 years ago. It specifically focused on their kind of Christian worship. In the Tigray region which is very close to Lolibela there are also stone churches. Du to a story about Queen Sheba and a son born to her and King Solomon. The story says the Ark of the Covenant is in the caring hands of the people of Ethiopia. I have found two different versions of how this came to be. As for the alcoholic brew tour, I find it also relevant to the study of the area. All societies over the years have been brewing types of alcoholic beverages. Maybe I'll study the historic ideas about this some time since, it is always something we wonder about. Home brewed wines and beers have been medicinal as well as sometimes the drink served with meals. Problems only arise when the drinks are used in a glutinous manner. Even though we are inclined to make fun of the results of to much of these beverages. I'm off subject somewhat today so my details are scanty. Just need to spend some time resting in the hotel. |
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