Greetings, friends!
It's a week of some movement at last for me and my family. We reached our villages to the East and we had about one day for each place. A few hours, actually. What can you do for a couple of hours?
Scouting...What's the situation, what our elderly grandparents were able to do on their own, what help did they need, what's to be done in the summer...
It turns out they are still quite the task force but now it comes at the cost of spending most of their energy.
This is what my grandfather has been able to do in the past, a greenhouse out of the of an old bus.
Some parts of it keeping company to the scarecrow...
A mirror, a jar, a recipe for disaster...
...were all these in Africa, for example. Actually, we have heat in the summer, too, plenty of it. I think those should change soon even though at a first glance it does not seem there's much to burn nearby._
A direct hit on the vine itself? Not that likely but since the garden is mostly unobserved during the week...
Anyway. My folks are usually more concerned with bird and what small portion they would eat from that symbolic vineyard rather than being concerned with semi-domestic not-that-wildfires. I think differently, especially when it comes to birds.
But I am just a photographer. A dude who thinks a snapshot of a bird eating your production will be worth more than your production itself. What do I know ;) You can't eat snapshots.
If you let me hunt there for snapshots of birds, though, I will be acting as a full-time, animated, learning scarecrow. And that's scary.
Anyway, once again...
A neighbor has helped with plowing the land in the 1000+ square meters of a garden. But that can't last forever.
So I had to learn a thing or two that I had forgotten. Like how much water a tomato plant needs ;)
They do need a lot of watering in the summers here. I am quite convinced that unless we change the method to some drop-thing it will continue being quite the waste.
By the way, we're water rich compared to other lands. A thing we should protect from pollution and we're fine. Unfortunately, pollution is a great problem. Otherwise, water here comes from natural mineral springs and wells of underground water.
The soil is not that dry. It easily turnes into mud and the mud crusts and then the crust cracks like what you see on the photographs above. It wouldn't look like that were it not irrigated beforehand.
Speaking of leakage...
Houston, we have a problem...
Fortunately, not a rocket science thing. Nothing two bare hands can't cope with.
Yeah, after twenty-five years I feel new at all this again. Time to go deeper into it.
Next time I intend to show you some of the interior of a house where three generations at least have lived before me.
Peace!
Yours,
Manol
