Another day pursuing Internet access

We were supposed to get up super early and walk 5-6 miles to mehmets
village to use the Internet. New things I discovered today: I do need
email to live, facebook doesn't like it if you sign in in remote
Turkey and will block your account and baby donkeys are ridiculously
cute.

It was too hot because we didn't wake up until 7, but we started
walking anyways and miraculously got a ride from K's sister's husband
who "heard" we were walking. There's a verb tense in Turkish for
things that you hear but don't personally know to be true, I haven't
learned it yet however.

On the way we saw 3 elderly women who had just killed a 7 foot long
snake and a lot of people harvesting lentils by hand in the field--
unfortunately no one was fast enough to get any photos. Apparently the
brother-in-law had a kalashnikov in the front seat to guard the oil
well but I missed seeing this, if I knew the hearsay/gossip tense I
could use it here.

We did our internetting and sat around waiting for the 'dolmus'
minibus, (they're named after stuffed grape leaves--in the cities
people cram into minibuses like stuffed grape leaves fit together). We
took a walk in mehmets village and found his students splashing in a
pool out under the mulberry trees. The pool was around 10' x 16' with
about 30 wild children in it and all the girls were fully dressed.

When we got back to the regular village we walked to another garden
owned by Ks grandfather and admired the view and the pomegranate
flowers and met more aunties. And of course saw the too cute fuzzy
donkey baby--the better photos are on my other camera and will come
later. We came home and more aunties were waiting for us, a lot of
guests. I snuck out to help make dinner, as that and washing dishes is
way more fun--a lot of the aunties get a little cranky that they can't
ask me a million questions. It was interesting cooking while the
electricity kept going out, maybe about 8 times while we cooked.
Sometimes just for 5 or 10 minutes, but it was restrained chaos
looking for the battery powered light each time with the light from
cellphones and tripping over piles of bread.