Nobody loathes doing housework more than Srey-Yuu, especially washing the dishes, as you can see by her facial expression.
Bathroom Buddy 🕷️
While visiting the outhouse for some morning relief, I saw this little thing on the wall and snapped a pic. I've not seen many spiders with any green coloring at all, so I found this quite interesting. Obviously this color scheme is more suited for the forest instead of the bathroom, but this little arachnid was still a welcome guest.
Project Erosion Control 🪨
In this photo my hours of work seems so miniscule, but you can see in the bottom left I built up rocks to help keep the river from eating more of our land. This particular spot is where the river turns away from us a bit, so the water particularly wants to erode this location. I'd love to turn this into a rock bridge/dam, but that will be a multi-week project.
Monkey-B The Reader 📚
Monkey-B is also not fond of housework, and would rather spend her days reading, although we only have a handful of English books at the moment. The girls want the whole Harry Potter collection, but I forgot before leaving the USA how hard it is to get good books in Cambodia.
Go Morning Glory 🌱
Even though we lack a proper composting area and it would take a several months before we'd have the amount we need, we are able to grow a few things here and there. My wife planted some morning glory (water spinach) in one of our boxes, and it's finally starting to grow. Soon we'll be munching on homegrown greens.
Pineapple In Paradise 🍍
I once shared this pineapple on the cliffside before the land belonged to my wife (illegal for a foreign citizen to own land in Cambodia), but now this little fruit is part of the land we live on. The pineapple has a good view, but its roots are in solid rock, surprised it has grown to be the size it is while starved of nutrients.
The View ⛰️
While coming back up from the river erosion control project, Monkey-B noticed the moon was out in the middle of the day, so I snapped a pic to share with you all. It seemed big to me at the time, but the moon is only a tiny white blob in the corner of the photo.
Cut, Cut, Then Cut Some More 🥷
While I've been mostly stuck behind the computer trying to fund this project, Pov has been able to work outdoors a bit, mostly cutting the grass and plants on the hillside. Two huge boulders were uncovered in this process, and now I'm considering making them some kind of relaxation space.
The Best For Last 😠
We are back to the image you saw in the thumbnail again, sans fancy text. Srey-Yuu is not very good at hiding her emotional state, something I occasionally try and work with her on. I consider myself a zen master of keeping my emotions hidden from others, perhaps not the healthiest thing in the world, but the only way I've found to survive in Cambodia as long as I have. Most important is that she doesn't perform this death stare with any of her teachers at school.
Until next time my fellow Hivers....
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