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<\/a>This is Nichol’s house.\u00a0 She and her husband, Tony, are the oldest couple in our area.\u00a0 They are very friendly and always welcome us into their dining room\/extra kitchen when we visit.\u00a0 They use this room for storage, to eat, and sometimes to cook.<\/p>\n
\n This is the kitchen “counter”.\u00a0 There’s a few leftover tortillas from lunch, dishpans with lunch dishes, some firewood for when they want to light the stove again, and the broom leaning against the wall for when it’s time to tidy up.\u00a0 You can see their dining table in the background with the tablecloth.<\/p>\n \n This is the only place the I have seen these ingenious shelves.\u00a0 They have carved them out of their adobe wall.\u00a0 Very cool looking and very handy!<\/p>\n \n They have and outside stove, scroll down for picture, and this inside stove.\u00a0 These metal stoves are common, but not as well liked as the homemade adobe mud ones.\u00a0 There’s extra firewood all ready to heat water for coffee (instant) and some drinking water on the left that they haul from the stream a little ways away from the house.<\/p>\n \n No Nahuatl kitchen would be complete without a corn grinder.\u00a0 This is how everyone makes their tortillas.\u00a0 They soak the hard corn kernels, then send the now soft kernels through this grinder.\u00a0 It comes out a coarse dough.\u00a0 They then grind it further before forming their tortillas.<\/p>\n \n In the rainy season when there is plenty of grass for the cows, the people milk the cows with calves a little each morning.\u00a0 The ones who have several cows can get enough to make cheese.\u00a0 Here Nichol is storing her homemade cheese on a stick shelf hung from the rafters and covered with a cloth.\u00a0 I have seen this way of storing cheese in several houses.\u00a0 Not sure if this nifty shelf is to protect it from mice?\u00a0 or to keep it dry?\u00a0 I’ll have to find out!<\/p>\n \n Well, they don’t use it as a coat rack, but it’s the catch-all hook right by the door creatively fashioned from a forked branch.\u00a0 Very resourceful!<\/p>\n \n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>