When we arrived home, we had to gather up the rainwater that collected in the buckets all round the back yard. The Johnsons live in a neighborhood of approximately 1,000 people called Lote, which means lot. For some reason yet to be determined, the city water stopped running to this neighborhood 1 ½ years ago. No one from the water department is in any hurry to figure out what's happened to the neighborhood water pipe. Many people in Lote buy water from someone who has a well, but during the rainy season, the Johnson family and many others put out as many buckets and containers as possible to collect rainwater for use around the house. They use the collected water for washing dishes, doing laundry, use for the indoor plumbing, and watering the chickens and rabbits. This is a photo of where the rabbits and chickens live in the backyard.
It’s a good thing we came in the rainy season, or else we would have to follow the “If it’s yellow, let it mellow” rule. This is a photo of Vance siphoning the rainwater into their below ground water tank. 
The boys have their chores feeding and watering the rabbits. Here’s Mark Mark feeding the rabbits.
The Johnsons raise their own chickens and rabbits because it is a lot cleaner than the meat you get from the market. They have control over what their animals are fed in their own back yard. Two of the rabbits had bunnies recently. I’m holding one of the bunnies that is 10 or 12 days old…so cute! I’m not going to think about how this bunny is going to be dinner one day.
July 28 was Katy’s birthday and her dad rode his bicycle down the road to Orange Brutus (a fast food restaurant that resembles Orange Julius in the States) and Vicki’s grocery store for ice cream. Wish I could have gotten a photo of him riding a bike with cake and ice cream…that seems like a little challenge. :) For the record, Orange Brutus makes a pretty good chocolate cake!
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