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
Our local pilot Fred Houston, was so kind to fly both of us on September 27, 1986 above our home and on to the Campbell Mushroom Plant, that Pieter designed. See link below post.
Husband Pieter with pilot Fred Houston at our local Dublin Airport.
Yes, we also did arrive at this very airport, on April 23, 1983 with the Learjet from Campbell Soup, coming from Camden, New Jersey.
Photos can be seen in post from 4th of July Speech, given by my husband Pieter, below this post.
Me with Fred Houston...
Ready to get inside...
Pieter took this photo from me in the back seat and Pieter joined Fred up front...
Take off, from the airport and you immediately saw how green Dublin, Georgia is!
Lots and lots of trees.
Homes almost completely hidden, between the trees.
The local airport was not far from our home...
The tall water tower, from Springdale Park, is visible and in-between the big pond to the bottom is the Claxton Dairy Road
Right corner is the Claxton Dairy Road, and to the left is Brookwood Drive and center (left and right from wing support) shows the ponds of the Brookington Apartments
Approaching the area where we lived...
Coming closer into our subdivision...
Our home is just in that curve of the side road, which you see to the left...
Above Brookhaven Drive now, and to the right you can see the creek that flows under bridge.
Regency Circle ends into Broohaven Drive and to the left you see the beginning of Fairmont Road.
Here the plane is right in front of our home; seen in the center of photo!
Even better visible here in the center...
Still visible in the center but we are already pulling away...
Brookhaven Drive is seen to the right and Fairmont Road was off Regency Circle
Just one of the several subdivisions within the city limits.
Here our home is invisible in the center as we pull away.
Our neighbors had a pool, that is visible below our 'hidden' home.
Earlier I mentioned the bridge over the creek that was flowing underneath Brookhaven Drive.
To the left at the top, it is still visible here and the rest is just a kind of low and wet area where no homes got build.
Pulling out towards Highway 80. The big spot on the center is a parking lot and shops.
Buildings from the Veterans Administration Hospital become visible to the left and also the local hospital in the back, left from center.
Now you see the compound of the Veterans Administration Hospital and in the back Fairview Hospital
Here we're now past the local Fairview Hospital, where at present time lots of other medical office buildings have been added!
Now we fly near Interstate 16, which runs past Dublin with several exits.
From the coast in Savannah, it crosses through Macon and then bends into Interstate 75 North towards Atlanta.
Interstate 75 South, runs South into Florida.
Now we approach the site where you see the Campbell Mushroom Plant, that Pieter designed for them.
You can read more about that in my previous writing, see below this post.
Turning in a bit closer...
There were 21 growing rooms, seen behind the water tower.
Here you clearly see the enormous stock on wheat straw, being used for making compost.
A water tower as usual, that is very unique for the USA.
This angle gives an even better view of all the wheat straw stock.
Yes, this mushroom farm purchased all the wheat straw available between Dublin and Savannah, a stretch of 2 hours driving distance on Interstate 16!
The compost slab is in the center and then the pasteurization tunnels, red roof more to the left and in the end the growing rooms, all the way to the left.
This location was very close to Interstate 16, so transport by the large, cooled trucks was easy!
Back to the airport and almost at touch down...
Both of us were very grateful to this kind pilot for showing us, from above where we lived.
It was now a more complete picture for family and friends in The Netherlands, to see and better understand where we lived and worked in the New World!
Has any of you seen the location where you reside, from above?
Just now, October 13, 2022, Fred Houston—Dublin veteran earns 50 years of flying award:
In our previous home we had nice neighbors but suddenly they were moving away...
That happens in life!
BUT, their two kitties, brother and sister, stayed behind and came to us for food and shelter...
Pieter in our kitchen, holding up Saartje (left) and her brother Spooky...
Here I'm holding both, Spooky the boy to the left and Saartje his sister to the right.
Yes, Saartje is a Dutch kitty name!
We never knew their real names... or IF they had any.
Photos are from February 22, 1986...
Saartje was SO in love with her new Mommy!
Me too...
March 9, they both came to Pieter as he was working in the yard and followed him like they were doggies!
On May 9, 1986 husband Pieter dropped me off at the airport as I was flying to Amsterdam for a surprise Mother's Day visit and also for the First Communion of our best friends' son, on the 11th of May.
Pieter was working in the yard on May 15, and Saartje put a newborn kitten in front of him...
Where have you hidden them?
Pieter asked her, and she led him to the peat-moss bale under the open, but roofed garden shed.
On May 19, Pieter flew to Ohio, for Campbell Soup and on May 23 he flew back to Atlanta and, continued to Amsterdam, for joining me in Europe.
Both of us arrived back home on June 15, and a skinny Saartje greeted us. She and her 4 skinny kittens had lived on our patio and actually fed on bugs that got attracted by the light.
Poor critters, all left on their own - remember they were NOT ours but from the neighbors.
We started feeding them and soon they perked back up.
A week later, Kitty Mom Saartje with three of her babies on the patio, looking again healthy.
Happy tummies... Gave them brushies as well.
Feasting with Kitty Mom.
Nicki is looking towards the camera, with his 'M' on the forehead.
This is where they slept on our patio... Our veranda to the left and the kitchen bay window to the right.
Pieter with Panther, Devil, Stripe and Nicki...
Pieter with an armload of kitties...
So much cuteness!
All on Sunday, June 22, 1986
August 23, in 5 days Nicki will go to his adoptive human parents...
August 28, my final cuddle time day with Nicki, after tennis lessons...
Next day I did bring him to his new Mom and it was exactly one year since Mauzie girl, our Dachshund went over the rainbow.
Now again without a pet...
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The neighbors did come back obviously to retrieve the two adult cats; we never saw Saartje and Spooky again
