6-28-2014
What a labour intense
day. We want to prepare our property to
start building. 1st we needed
to clear a few trees to grant access to the land. My husband and I, along with my brother, my
kids and one of my cousins went there and proceeded to cut down the trees that
was blocking access. Unfortunately all
said trees were fruit trees, a pommerac, two mango trees, and two plum trees. Neighbors rushed to get the cut branches of
the plum tree as it was laden with produce and thus the right time for
replanting.
The rain showed no mercy,
although maybe I should rethink that statement, as the rain was indeed welcome
to wash away the torrent of ants that was biting us every step we took. However, we were drenched to the bone, making
it difficult to use power tools and thus had us right back to old fashioned swinging
of the blade. We walked with enough
cutlasses for everyone and even my eleven year old son got in on the
action. Sleep is surely going to be
welcomed tonight.
With all going on, I
ensured to make it more eventful by toppling over in the big drain and hurting
my left shoulder as well as having a tree trunk hit my left shin. Achy and swollen, it gets no better than
this. Here we see my son passing
branches that he cut for my daughter to stack, and my husband preparing it into
smaller pieces for my son to handle. I
was dragging the cut limbs to that location for them to carry on.
The bags of green mango
that we came home with will be in tomorrows stew.
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