They will prepare an afternoon meal and sometimes bring it to their husbands at work in the fields. They will help raise the chickens, rabbits and goats, will milk the cow, and in the late afternoon when it is cool will go out into the fields along with their husbands to spade and hoe the land, plant seeds, and pick the corn or harvest the rice. When passing a friend or neighbor's house, they'll often stop for tea, or buttermilk, or enjoy some home-made beer or alcoholic beverage. This daily routine is spiced with moments of great enjoyment and great sadness. There are celebrations for births and marriage, and sad gatherings for times of sickness and death.
Nature brings days of hot sun and nights with cool breezes.
There are seasons of torrential rain that make the land rich and green and then seemingly endless periods of drought that turn the whole earth into a parched, barren brown wasteland. There are no phones, no TV's, there is a lot of time to sit around as a family, walk over to your neighbor, tell stories, sing songs, and to pray to the God of earth and sky. We must also remember that St Ann was thoroughly Jewish and enjoyed all the cultural, political, and religious customs of Israel. She was a wife and mother and became the proud grandmother of the most beautiful grandson the world has ever known. She married Joachim from Nazareth in Galilee.