It's blurry, but we are scalding, plucking, and cleaning more than 20 chickens to feed people tomorrow.
Inside the kitchen 6-8 neighbor women are patting corn tortillas to cook for everyone to eat tomorrow. Large kettles of corn are boiling to make atol and chilate in the morning. They had over 100 people that they fed rolls and horchata during the wake in the evening. They did another feeding of 100 at about midnight, then more at 5am. They were awake all night.
The next morning we went over and helped cook chicken, roast veggies, clean dishes, and anything else they asked us to do. They fed us chilate.
Julisse is 4,very cute and contrary at times. Her mouth is full of chilate.
Eating chicken pinol with the corn tortillas.
They carried the coffin to his house, then to the main catholic church (for a funeral mass), and then to the opposite end of town, where there is another catholic church (the calvario) and the catholic cemetary. One of the elders helped carry the coffin a bit at the beginning. The men were switching out with others quite a bit because it was heavy and they carried it a long way. There was also a brass band playing the whole time. (Sort of like a New Orleans funeral, but no jazz.)
At the cemetary they lowered the coffin into the ground.
The men and elders took turns filling in the hole.
Panarama of the cemetary after most people had left.
All the flowers on top of the grave. In the background you can see a man selling snow cones. Another man was selling oranges cut in half with cinnamon and sugar on top. They are very interprising and know where they can sell their wares.
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