20210812 Reminding me

 When I went out for a walk today the people in the next land were taking off all their old keet (local thatch) to replace it.  It reminded me of how when I first came to live here all our roofs were made like this.

Now it is very hard to find people who know how to do this work.  When I first came a keet roof, properly looked after, would last four to five years.  Now we are lucky if it lasts for two to three years.  This is because nowadays the keet isn’t treated properly before it is put up on the roof.  Not being treated means it gets eaten by insects much faster.

 

20210811 palmyra fruit

 These are all old palmyra fruit so no use for eating.  They might cause a problem when the rains come and they all start sprouting.  They have exceedingly strong roots and are very difficult to pull up.  Hopefully we can find someone who can use them in some way.

20210810 Palmyra sticks

 

There are piles of these palmyra sticks lying around all over the place.  As we sort out all the dead leaves that have been cut off the palmyra trees into piles of sticks and piles of leaves.

20210809 Outside the nursery

 

We are doing a lot of planting and replanting so this pile of nursery pots has grown just outside the nursery.  At this time of year the pots are waiting to be emptied, filled with nursery mixture and then planted again.

20210808 Like Christmas

 

We have allowed all these snake gourds to ripen to a vibrant red that reminds me of Christmas.  Problem is we won’t be using these seeds as all the snake gourds from these plants are so bitter they are inedible.

20210807 Morning light

 

Beautiful light coming through newly cleaned palmyra trees first thing in the morning. These trees are just outside my door.

20210806 Bees nest

 

While taking down the dead palmyra leaves yesterday we came across this bees nest/honeycomb.  Although we disturbed the bees they didn’t get aggressive thank goodness.