23 October 2019

NEVER SAY DIE !!

This string of nopal cactus pads were cut a week or two ago for lunch and didn’t get used.  While they’ve been sitting there, they put up new shoots (circled in orange) – planning to grow big as though they were still connected to Mother Earth.

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I promised to tell you about the PNG group.  They were here for four weeks on a workshop sponsored by Kyeema Foundation.  https://kyeemafoundation.org/   (This is the same organization who sent us Faith to help out – God bless them!)

Here they are on their last day, figuring out how to have best-practice biosecurity in a poultry farm – using OUR farm as a test problem.

Wow!  And here we have a map of our chicken pens – what chickens should go where, which order they should be fed in, etc. etc.    Beautiful plan!   We look forward to implementing it all.

And here is their farewell photo.  Isa isa – I miss them already.

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Akka caught this one:

Geese flying in a V-formation …. while walking.   Ha ha

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You remember that Faith and Nicole’s veggie garden got repurposed as a juvenile chicken pen?   Well, the veggie plants were not abandoned.

Into a wheelbarrow they went.

And then into the fenced area by the cantina that our Samoan friends put up for us.

We have Kale!

We have Basil!

We have CELERY !!

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Austin caught this one:

The kitties were playing with bubbles on his laptop.  When the bubbles were gone, they were still trying to play.

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FIJIAN WORD of the WEEK

Qase   (ngGAH-se) – is “old man”

Buinigone (mBU-ah-ning-OH-nay) – is “old woman”

This buinigone  is a little lialia  (“crazy”), sitting in the wai cevata  (“ice”)

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Happy week, everybody !!

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