A Collage of Pictures ~ This and That!

A few weeks ago when we had just received the key to this house -but did not have the scooter yet - we had to do some shopping of items for the house and with too much to carry - we found a Dokar to get us home....

How fun - all the bags and we loaded them up and the horse took us down the little roadways - oh my what a load for the horse...3 people and then all the groceries too! Poor horsie!!!!!

 No mirrors in the house - so we are 'so' into plastic - cheap and it takes care of the need!


The water jug on the kitchen counter - to do all our cooking and drinking with!  One jug is 50 cents - yes 5000 rupiahs.  They are delivered to us by motorcycle - the delivery person has one on both side of his bike - so heavy a load!

At the front of the house the pillars have this cactus growing - again something I have not seen before.  It clings to the pillar!

 There they go......Nico is very careful and takes good care of both his passengers! Ha! You do have to watch out - for there is cars and motorcycles going all kinds of directions left and right!

 But we enjoyed our ride to Ambarawa last week - just driving through the countryside is so relaxing! We look forward to doing that again!

 Hey lookie here.......Wow a toko named after me....of all things!

Pretty sights to share with you!  

A new home being built around the corner of our house ~ 

Nick notices things like how the houses are built...cement poured and how with wooden forms the pillars are erected -  and then to level things with a string!  The people  are very resourceful and the homes end up looking very beautiful.

Just fun to share with you!

Last evening we heard a loud sound again - There is that Tokeh sound again - I have not yet seen one but this kind of gecko is LOUD!

 These guys are supposed to be pretty big - and when you hear their sound "tokeh" it is loud!

But this little guys (very cute and tiny - they crawl up on our ceilings all the time~ eating little bugs - mosquito's - which we like!  Thankfully there is not many mosquito's around and somehow they don't come into the house - but the little gecko's do a great job of keeping the buggies out!  We sit in the living area and then see something moving up on the ceiling or wall!  They must have good suction on their feet!  Sometimes though they do fall ~ but not often! And I would NOT like it if they fell while we were sleeping - !!!!

Today we went by dear Paulus & Indah and family (the kind person who gave us a lift from the airport when we returned back from Singapore....remember?) Anyway - we went by to visit them and just wanted to let them know we are doing well - we found a house to rent -we now have a scooter to get around on - and we wanted to let them know how much we appreciated their hospitality and friendship!
It was a nice visit with mother Indah and daughter Herlina!  We will see Paulus and brother San San and Fiona again soon we hope!  They are such gracious people and sweet Indah had a lovely lunch for us - such a nice visit!

We drove home in the rain ~ Nick pulled out his plastic poncho that came with the scooter tucked into the seat compartment and we headed home - and we made it home just fine!