The plan was to pick Shanto up at 8:00
So after breakfast, everybody loaded into the van. Lonnie drove out the gate and proceeded to shut the gate and untie the dog.Meanwhile, the van left battery mode and started missing like crazy with terrible exhaust.
The brethren were let know that we would not be going to Gopalgonj for service today. Everybody unloaded, changed clothes and Lonnie proceeded to see if he could get the van into Khulna for repair. Taking the back, round about way thru the village, it’s pass-ibility is getting to the questionable stage also!
At Auto Dynamics, https://maps.app.goo.gl/hdzEFDzM7572nFUG7?g_st=ic
he was told it would be a 6 hr repair job. So Lonnie caught easybike home.
Dipti back to work after a week off over the wedding time and a couple all day rains
Life is different in her home with a daughter in law now🥰 Baroti had made Bangla noodles for them that morning and she likes tea Every Day! Fast forward: But then Baroti was back to her schooling, she’s in college. And then her college had a few day vacation and Baroti spent that vacation back at her father’s home!
That evening, the whole family caught easy bike to Bissho Rd for a little supper. Tried the momos and had fuska. Then caught another easy bike to the repair shop
Back in the gari, Lonnie took us to New Market for ice cream cones😊 we decided to try the from a different vendor nearby, but alas, nobody was selling ice cream because the power was out! But this vendor was working on getting his generator out and going. About that time, one of my girls is getting quite adamant about finding a bathroom, Now! So, Lonnie stayed at the icecream booth and the girls and I went in search of. One stranger directed us to one in the depths of New Market but it was Really dark in there and I didn’t even have my phone with me! So off to the Other end of New Market where I knew of a decent one in Artisan. The ladies there wanted to know where my baby was🥰 By time we got back across NewMarket, the power was back on and Lonnie was visiting with an upper teens? boy that knew some English. We decided we liked these cones better than the other place. He had yummy blueberry icecream also😋
Another little instance that’s so common, don’t even think to write about most of the time.. Is the little beggar children at NewMarket.. this evening, one quieter, little bit older, girl followed us back to the gari, She said she was 11.. was Not scrawny and demanding… was selling flower wreaths…. Would Love to know her story… why is she on the street at night begging🥺 it was not hard to slip her a few Taka as we were leaving and it wanted to haunt me… all the Why’s and unknowns of why she was there… I wish she didn’t need to be there… why do some children have to do those kind of things…???….
The girls were wishing for more easy bike adventure. But it was time to head to the house. We planned to just park the van before the bridge and catch rickshaw van to the house. Some of the bricks from the detour route, that’s now under water, had been moved to the new bridge’s sand approaches. They made brick paths wide enough for the easybikes and rickshaw vans but not garis. Now, tonight, when we came home the locals said yes, you can take your gari over. So Lonnie went for a look-see and he could see that a gari had passed over successfully and it looked doable although definitely a temporary situation. So over we went! 1st time over the new bridge… a project that has rocked on much longer than they had planned and has complicated travel to and from our house many times.
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