Working days, Token Nights
Its been a busy couple of days, and although I have published a couple of guides on moving tokens, I have also been getting back into work around the farm.
There is a lot to do, and it can be overwhelming at times, but I am determined to advance on our projects, after all, what good are tokens if we can't convert them into real life changes?
Last week I was invited to an important meeting in the Gregorita, our neighboring rural district, about a hydroelectric project possible coming to our region. The are still in the various legal processes necessary to start, including socializing the community.
They did ask us to wear masks, but at least when each person talked in turn they took their masks down so we could understand them. More information to come on this big project.
One thing I really want to finish, need to finish, is our ecodome. I am currently working on a new drying rack to dry grass as an ingredient in the plaster we will be using. The idea is to cover all the finished parts of the dome with plaster and then continue with the roof of the dome.
I had cleaned up the area and started to accumulate the materials, including bamboo from our farm, which can only be cut in the new moon. After a week or two of false starts, when we finally got down to business the grass was all grown again.
We got the area clean and started cutting the bamboos to length. I was working with my neighor's son, he is 11 years old and was very happy to get some work, he told me he needed some medicines for his new puppy, which is what motivated me to get started.
We still have a few days of summer left, even though its raining at night now. Rainy season here is called 'winter', and Winter is Coming.
Over the course of the week, working mostly half a day at a time, we managed to get everything prepared. My helpers family had built a similar structure last year, so we are following their design.
Next week we have plans to finish off this structure, sometimes it feels like there is so much to do that I never get anything finished, but I am working hard to change that, and getting help is something very important to that. I know a lot of people but not everyone has proven able to work with me, or perhaps vice versa.
I will have more pictures for you next week, leave me a comment down below about what you think about 'child labor', one of my favorite topics to argue about.
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In the US children of a business owner are exempt from child labor laws.
This is so kids can help out working on the family farm, or working in the family business after school to learn a trade.
I think it is good you were able to give the neighbor's son honest work to earn money to help his puppy.
Plus it got you motivated to start a project.
Can't wait for the next photos.
Always great to hear from you, thank you for the comment, I appreciate that and good to know there are exceptions, of course forced labor of any kind is bad, or bad conditions, but I think kids should learn honest work!
Agreed! Forced Labor of any kind is bad but teaching kids honest work is a noble thing.
There's a difference though between work like this, or mowing the neighbor's yard or raking their leaves or helping on the family farm or something, and going to work for McDonald's when you're still a kid; or historically, in a coal mine or factory.
A huge difference! Still, a potential 'baby with the bathwater situation'.
Dude. You guys are planning one? Mini hydro or a large hydro? I used to lobby one hydro project in Myanmar.
Its a private project, but the law forces them to work with the local community and I do my part to work as a local leader.
Nice! I think its a good policy to get the locals involve, although it does increase the cost of it, at the very least, it gives gets the locals more educated and if all goes well, depending on the delivery, you won't get people objecting and in a long run it actually saves cost.
Wow you look so cute in Ur farm,so have a big farm to this extend? What are the variety of crops you want to plant.
Nothing worthwhile comes easy, keep up the hard work, physical or otherwise! ❤️
What are you planning to do with this structure? And what are you doing with the other one you built, that is elevated and has those cool railings as I recall? So many projects!
We are sleeping in that one right now! This is a drying rack, traditionally for coffee but our most urgent need is to dry grass to use for plaster right now.
Ohhh very cool! I bet you get some nice breezes in that elevated sleeping loft!
yes! its really spectacular, but right now we are having an ant problem :/ We brought up some sealing wax for the floor to see if it might help, I'm trying to figure out where they are living maybe I can convince them to live somewhere else
I don't know if you can get it where you are, but twice I had ants here coming up through the laundry plumbing somehow (??? they were coming out from underneath the washing machine; I am not on the ground floor, so they were in the walls and going on a journey to get here), and what worked was I made a line across the floor in front of the washer with Fels Naptha soap. It's a bar soap for laundry meant to scrub stains out. I don't know if they just don't like it, or if they eat it and die, or how it works, but you grate it and make a line where they are coming in, and give it a couple of weeks and BAM no more ants.