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Author Topic: It's a Mystery to Me; Loan Descriptions and Pictures That Leave Us Wondering  (Read 28084 times)
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« Reply To This #10 on: April 24, 2008, 10:22:02 AM »

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=45754&_tpos=1&_tpg=1

Maximina – Retail – Peru

Maximina works day to day with a lot of insistence to be able to cover all the necessities, she dedicates herself to the shearing of wool from sheep to market it and leather for the shoemakers, if you go to the Huamanmarce annex you will see her there working shearing the wool. This is a small workshop that Maximina has fixed for work, and in the afternoons she dedicates herself to the decoration of aprons. Maximina’s dream is to better her production and to open a store. The loan will be invested as capital.

I love sheep people

QueryWhat is Maximina leaning on in the picture?
a)   A gargantuan headless sheep?  (Might her shears have slipped on this one?)
b)   A mountain of somewhat solidified sheep-sheared wool?
c)   A furry old-growth tree stump?
d)  Other?

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Hey Quizzoid, if you, perchance, have found your way here.... 
Praytell: your prediliction for potatoes , pourquoi? 

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« Reply To This #11 on: April 24, 2008, 05:23:58 PM »

... and there are at least a few people in the western world, Christopher  Embarrassed who still take hours and hours watering plantings in remote places.


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« Reply To This #12 on: April 24, 2008, 08:07:46 PM »

... and there are at least a few people in the western world, Christopher  Embarrassed who still take hours and hours watering plantings in remote places.
those are great photos ...

does that t-shirt really say GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS?   Thumbs Up

Love it Smiley jan
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« Reply To This #13 on: April 25, 2008, 09:12:26 AM »

Yup, it does.  Great Old Broads for Wilderness is one of my many nature-advocacy groups.  I read about them in the NY Times shortly after they were founded, and just had to join!  They say in their ads that you don't have to be great, or old, or even a woman to join.... so my husband, too, was a member and proudly wore his GOB shirt to the fitness center! ROFL

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« Reply To This #14 on: April 25, 2008, 09:48:11 AM »

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« Reply To This #15 on: April 25, 2008, 11:11:52 AM »

Jill:
Tell your hubby that I think he's a pretty cool guy   Cool  secure about his masculinity & comfortable in his own skin.

KUDOS to Jill's spouse!   Flowers

Lorna 
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« Reply To This #16 on: April 25, 2008, 02:32:53 PM »

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Maximina – Retail – Peru

QueryWhat is Maximina leaning on in the picture?
a)   A gargantuan headless sheep?  (Might her shearers have slipped on this one?)
b)   A mountain of somewhat solidified sheep-sheared wool?
c)   A furry old-growth tree stump?
d)  Other?

I'm thinking (d), a sheepskin resting on her lap.  Though I would have expected them to shear the sheep, THEN slaughter it.  Or if the sheep died on its own time, shear the corpse.

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« Reply To This #17 on: April 25, 2008, 02:41:57 PM »

A) Pertaining to Lorna's post in Reply #15, above, I say,

"Ooh, ooh!"  With the thought that KF Lorna might have some kind of “Cassandran” prophetic  power, I can only say how excited I am at the implication of her post and will be looking forward, with great anticipation, to meeting this dashing chap for whom I've been waiting all my life, and with such desirable attributes, too.  Ooo-wee!   Truth be told, I’d almost given up all vestiges of hope and belief that he could even exist.  I just hope that he likes dogs, ducks, gorillas, farmers, the ocean, trees, music,  and loves to read, as well….. And oh yeah, Kiva, too.  OB-viously.

However, as long as I’m here, anyway, I guess I'll redirect Lorna’s salute, thinking, sorrowfully, that she may not be able to see into the future, after all, and I will aim it, instead, towards Carter Denniston, Glenda’s late, loving and wonderful husband, whom some of us have had the pleasure of getting to know through his haiku and other manifestations of his kind and sensitive soul, in various of Glenda’s posts and stories.
Sigh, oh sigh.




B) Maybe you're right, Tim McDaniel.  I'd prefer not, in that, ordinarily, sheep who are shorn for their wool don't have to be sacrificed in order for someone to avail themselves of their wonderful "by-product" but are encouraged to live and thrive and grow another coat for the next shearing season and the one after and the one after that.  I'd rather that nobody and nothing had to die for me to have had that picture to post about, but who knows..... Either way, thanks for your post.
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« Reply To This #18 on: April 25, 2008, 03:42:40 PM »

OMG!

I am so sorry for:

a) inadvertantly increasing Glenda's pain. I had no idea she lost her husband & soulmate;

b) misaddressing my reply to Jill.

Not one of my better moments.  Embarrassed

Jill: I hope you find someone as great as what Glenda's husband, Carter, was. Carter sounds like he was a wonderful guy.  Good Luck

Glenda: May you have great memories of your time together. I am so sorry for your loss. I know the void in
           your life must be HUGE.  Flowers


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« Reply To This #19 on: April 25, 2008, 08:10:48 PM »

No problema, Lorna. You gave me another opportunity to remember Carter's wry sense of humor and smile. Smiley I really got a kick out of his wanting to own that T-shirt.  Grin
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