[AT] Barley Harvest 2

[charlie hill]

Thanks Dennis,   That makes sense.  Kind of like our Amish people.
It's just the way they believe in doing things.  Or perhaps how
circumstance has forced them into doing things.

I know you are enjoying the trip.  I'd love to see that part of the
world but have to confess that I somewhat fear leaving the security
(real or perceived) of the US right now.  Lynn is leaving on Thursday
to go on a Adriatic sea cruise that will take her to Italy, Greece, Croatia
and some small Island that is part of Greece I think.  They were supposed
to go to Turkey but security issues got that removed from the tour.
I'll be unsettled until she gets back just because I know that if anything
happens there is no way that I can go and get or help her.  I don't even
have a passport.

Charlie



-----Original Message----- 
From: Dennis Johnson
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2016 3:24 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: [AT] Barley Harvest 2

Charlie,

The larger Israeli farms use square balers such as the one shown below to 
harvest the barley. You can see several fields with square bales in larger 
flat fields.

On the mountain sides where I took the picture with the hand sickles there 
were no commercial sites with even a lemonade stand. This was next to a 
Palestine/Israeli border crossing. The Beduoin people really live like that. 
I have seen similar groups living in the desert in Egypt several years back 
when visiting oilfield for work. The shepard's nearby were really living in 
the cave.

We are doing a bible study/tour studying the places where King David had 
significant events is his life. This barley picture was within a few miles 
from a cave he lived in when others were trying to kill him.  The shepard's 
lived much like David did when he was a boy caring for a flock of sheep.

Several of the larger sites near or in Jerusalem have got very 
commercialized, but the Beduoin people have not commercialized as far as I 
know.

Dennis











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