19 November 2007

Around our house

In August I posted some pics of our house in Pohnpei. Here are some more.

Our washer is located outside of our house. This picture is to the 'right' of our house if looking at the front. In the background you can see a some banana, coconut, and bettlenut trees. Notice the rice cooker, we also cook rice outside due to the steam and heat it generates...


If you look at the above picture(if you click on it you can see a much larger version of it, this goes for all pictures that we post) you can see a blue metal thing in the background and also a large yellow disk. They are in the foreground of the next picture and in the background are the tombs of previous residents of our house. That's pretty weird...


One nice thing about living 7 degrees north of the equator is that when the sun is shining bright our clothes dry really fast. This is the front of our house. The sheets on the line dried as fast as if they were in a dryer. The negative side is that it rains frequently and without notice so these could have been soaked if we weren't home to bring them inside really fast...


Here is a picture of the pig that lives 10-15 feet from our bedroom window...


The pig is pretty quiet. The only annoyance is when the wind blows a certain way we get to smell the pig pen. It could be much worse though, our neighbor cleans the pen every morning.

Here is a picture of the pig pen with our house in the background. If you look close or click on the picture to enlarge it you can see our bedroom window it's directly above the pig...

2 comments:

Megan said...

About the clothes drying: Yes, they dry very fast on hot sunny days. But, more often is the case to have humid days, and sometimes 3 days after you hang your clothes, they're still damp. And, even if you have a hot sunny day, you must take care to bring them in. Because a humid day will make them damp again!

Christy said...

I think the pig outside your window is funny!