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Dear All,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

We just finished harvesting 26 tons of wheat on with an old Russian combine

that was about 1 zillion years old. It was beautiful to see the golden wheat

in the field, it was beautiful seeing it cut, the field is still beautiful

and gold with the straw ... which we will start bailing in a few days.

 

Come whatever may ... we have 26 tons of wheat for the devotees and the

congregation. We are building a storage room in the barn and after it is

threshed and cleaned it will go there.

 

We are also drying eggplants for this coming winter. So far we have cut and

strung around 200 kilos of the the stuff. Now we are going to start on

vegetable marrows. I had dinner with some Kashmiri people last night and

they said in Kashmire they dry eggplants, marrows, and tomatoes and when the

winter snows come they have fantastic vegetable preparations.

 

Green peppers are also being dried. We are going to dry tomatoes and the

tomats are getting ready to made in to sause for winter usage. Who can tell

me the best way to insure the jars don't go weird and explode later on.

 

Around 12,500 cabbages in the field ... coming out at any time. Thats a lot

of methane gas from the brahmacari asram.

 

OOOOOOO ... I dug up the first of our potatoes last week. It was the first

time I ever smelled a potatoe fresh out of the earth. I took them to be

cooked for Gaura Nitai.

 

We are supposed to have a harvest of 20 tons of potatoes. We are digging a

big big pit to put them all into ... also a pit for the carrots ... and a

warm store room in the barn for the pumpkins.

 

Watermelons and cantaloupes are on the way. We got them in late so they will

be ready by end of August.

 

Zillions of cucumbers getting ready to jump in the glass jars for the

winter.

 

The devotees are working like crazy and are happy.

 

We are cooking only on wood and the cow dung paddy production will start

this week. In the winter we want to have sufficient supply of dung paddies

to cook til next May.

 

The electric tansformer burnt 2 weeks ago. All candles and hand pump. We

think we are going to leave it that way.

 

I searched the net for " making home made soap " and got some good info.

There is plenty info out there. I will get someone to try it this week.

Sunflower harvest is soon ... maybe we can use sunflower oil.

 

We are trying to fix up the main house, going to make a kitchen, bought a

good cottage for the ladies, the men are still bathing in the lake, it is

blazing hot in the days and cool at night and there is still some snow on

the mountains.

 

Geez, plenty of worries, problems every day, working hard, but a little

something is being done. We even got a donkey and the devotees named her

Kundali.

 

Also found butter for around .90 cents for a kilo. We are going to make

enough ghee to keep us through the winter ... maybe we'll make some of that

special ghee soap that Miss Carol has been carrying on about.

 

It's an adventure and we are all relishing. Send us some blessings .... and

if you are rich send us donations ... we are doing it all on an invisable

budget.

 

Your humble servant,

 

BB Govinda Swami