I May Not Be Perfect But My Cat LOVES ME

Today just something LIGHT...

🐾 I May Not Be Perfect But My Cat LOVES ME...  🐾

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Sweet Gift of Coasters from Dear Friends in The Netherlands...

They too have a cat fur baby!

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Pieter's Solo Trip to Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia in Colombia...

On Sunday, September 26 in 1993, we both got up early at 6:00 AM as I had to drop Pieter off at the Atlanta airport for his flight to Medellin, Colombia.

Sunday night spent at Hotel Inter Continental in Medellin, Colombia
Now it is spelled: INTERCONTINENTAL just click it.
On Monday morning the 27th, Pieter arrived at Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia which was about 2 hours north of Medellin.

The road through the Andes Mountains took Pieter to Yarumal where the SETAS mushroom farm was being built.
The reason Pieter got asked to go there, was for assessing the situation for a USA importer of mushrooms, Fred Giorgio for Giorgio Foods.

The mushroom farm was being designed by Gerard Derks and built by an Italian company.
Here it is coming into sight...

Coming closer for getting a better overview...

And still closer...

There it is...

Pieter had to evaluate its layout and technical functionality and write a report later.

Pieter stayed at the hotel near this Cathedral.

Catedral - Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, Colombia. click for info
The hotel Pieter slept for one night (luckily!) was a kind of a prison room. A hatch with bars in the door and no windows. That's what they called a hotel?!
The shower was with a kind of submersible element, which hung from a wire under the water that came out of a curved pipe.
Because the water ran over the element, it got a little warm. Of course, you had to watch out for not touching that wire, it could have shocked you...

Quite an experience, the mushroom farm was also heavily guarded... Pieter got to see lots of guns!
Like entering a military camp.
The layout did show several shortcomings, technical errors but in the end, they got it sorted out and at present they seem to have a good operational business.
You can view a short video here: Setas Colombianas SA click it for seeing the actual finished mushroom farm.

On Tuesday night Pieter was back at the Inter Continental Hotel in Medellin and on Wednesday, I picked him up at the Atlanta Airport.

Happy to be home, that was quite an adventure and one for not repeating...

Pieter Giving Seminars at Various Campbell Farms

Such visits across the Atlantic were always very hectic for my Pieter!

They used his time for having him do several Seminars at their Mushroom farms in the area.

That is typical for the USA, using huge billboards and welcoming the staff members from Camsco Mushroom Co (then Campbell Soup's Mushroom Division).

Pieter standing next to it makes him dwarf...

Michigan

Indeed the Great Lake State.

Whenever you were on such a job, you had to cover a huge distance, either by flight and/or lots by driving!

Delaware, The First State...

Being at the Napoleon Ohio Research Laboratory, Pieter also visited the Rotary Club's meeting!
They even had him published in the local newspaper.

Here Pieter is seen checking out the former Blue Mountain mushrooms farm in Pennsylvania...
Carrying the famous flash light for having pure white light inside the often dark mushroom growing rooms.
Analyzing problems...
This was a typical American Double, rather high rooms with two layers for standing/walking/harvesting.

Related post:
My Pieter is SO LUCKY for having viewed Mt. St. Helen Before its BIG Eruption | previous post about the very same trip