Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html
On Sunday, June 24 in 1995 while doing consulting work in Indonesia we went with one of the staff people to visit Retreat House Pratista, Cimahi, near Bandung, Indonesia.
There was a Dutch speaking pastor at this Crosier Monastery or Monastery of the Order of the Holy Cross (Kruisheren in Dutch).
When Pieter spotted the organ, he just started playing... without any music, just by heart!
Hope you enjoy this 1:37 minute video.
Starting video with the different Cross they use, not one of the suffering Christ!
The staff member seen in this video became our house guest end of August, the day after my sister and significant other left, after staying four weeks with us.
On Saturday August 26, 1995 he flew with us together to San Francisco.
On Sunday we got picked up, for going to Santa Cruz where Pieter did a Phase I and Phase II seminar for Campbell Soup for 54 participants.
Those were tough one-man shows for Pieter doing it solo for two days and half a day a farm tour towards the end.
Pieter did wear a Batik shirt, my sewing creation. The late Pastor Vermuilen was looking on...
Related link:
{My Batik Creations} | previous post where I show Pieter's batik shirt as my sewing creation
On June 3, 1995 Pieter started clearing our jungle. The adjacent lot across the creek that also became our property. Pioneering work as no one EVER lived there!
To the right in below video you see already how he'd opened up after he'd cut the underbrush and had done some 'logging'...
Again, if you watch it on YouTube, you find below the clickable points.
Using his electric chain saw, with a long extension cord and the very powerful long-handled jungle machete.
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My Dad flew home in March of 1993 with such an orange extension cord, that he loved so much. Back home in The Netherlands he would only have to change the plug.
Since it is rather stiff, we had given Dad a nylon zippered sports bag to carry it.
In Atlanta at the Airport screening point, a black lady wanted to take it away from Dad.
She claimed it was a weapon! Yeah, can you see a 72-year old passenger strangling someone with an extension cord?
So both of us stepped in and asked for the manager.
He came and said, NO it's not a weapon and it is not even on the list!
Dad got almost a nervous attack and was so glad that he got cleared...
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That lot was far from 'even' as you will see at clickable 2:10 where Pieter literally is doing a balancing act on a long tree trunk. Or else he would be falling DEEP into a hole as seen at 2:44.
Yep, it was a real jungle and rather dark with all the underbrush.
At 5:00 Pieter is completely out of sight, deep inside such a hole...
At 6:42 I'm showing our white Gloxinias that we kept in our greenhouse during winter.
Ending at 6:55 with our tame squirrel Piep and I lure him down the tree for finding his bonus, a hazelnut.
Hope you enjoy this little insight.
Soon after, we had to leave for Indonesia, for a couple of weeks of consulting work...
