The MCC Cambodia office was closed on Monday in observance of the Easter holiday. Normally we would have had Friday off but we already had Friday off for the national Khmer New Year holiday.

Crystal spent her day off picking 100 mangoes from the trees around our courtyard. The ripe ones that we didn’t immediately devour she cut up and froze.

The rest she’s stored around the house in various dark locations so that they can ripen up before being eaten, given away, or frozen. It takes about 7 to 10 days for a completely green mango to start ripening under these conditions.

There are probably another hundred mangos or so still in the trees. But after that mango season will officially be over this year. We feel so blessed to live in a house in the city that has an abundance of mango trees. We’re very grateful that our landlord values trees and intentionally cultivated them here instead of covering the earth with concrete as has been done across so much of Phnom Penh.