There is more than enough work that needs to be done on our new land, and the main priority at the moment is erosion control.
I Lost My Wife In A Pipe ⛑️
The rain hasn't let up for days, and our land is full muddy clay, making our shoes very sticky and very heavy. In a few days @sreypov's brother and a carpenter friend will arrive to renovate the small cabin on the cliff we are currently calling home.
We've been busy preparing for the arrival of our guests, and know they will be much colder here at night than where they live. They might want to sleep in the shack by the highway, so the wife decided to bail the water out of the above-ground cistern there and give it a good cleaning.
Monkey-B On A Mission 🚽
While taking pictures of Pov I noticed Monkey-B shuffling by while holding her tummy. She was in a hurry to make it to the bathroom, so I didn't waste her time with any witty banter.
Srey-Yuu Hard At Work 👩💻
After leaving Pov I went to check on Srey-Yuu, and I found her making Pov's Culture Corner post, something her mom has more or less delegated to her. I sense she doesn't enjoy curation work nor want to learn more about it, but luckily I've got a fast learner in Srey-Yuu. Pretty soon it will be Srey-Yuu's Culture Corner 😉.
Outdoor Dishwashing 🧼
We don't have a proper kitchen or any tables to do any cooking on, so for now all eating and washing is done at the ground level, and because we don't have running water at the bigger house, the most convenient place to wish dishes is outside by the rain barrel.
Not far from the dishwashing area is one of the low spots of the land. There was originally sinkhole forming by the edge of the house, but I've managed to mound the dirt up by the house and dig a drainage ditch to pull water away from the house.
My Projects 🪨
Mostly I have been a drainage ditch digger the last week, and it seems there is no end to the sinkholes and erosion I have to manage. The bathroom had no way to evacuate other than sending it out a pipe at the corner of the building, so I've been digging a ditch to evacuate the water, as well as excavating the dirt and replacing it with river rocks so we can help avoid a muddy bathroom
At the back of the property there is a massive erosion problem, both from a random collapse and made worse by water rushing down to it from the land aobve us. I built a catchment down by the river and mounded up dirt to divert the water rushing to elsewhere.
The rainy season is fast approaching and there is no vegetation on the land to provide a net of roots to make the land more stable. I have been cutting seed tops of wild plants and scattering them all over the dirt to try and get anything growing.
Any cuttings, compost or excess dirt all gets dumped her because we need to build this area back up again. Our land bottlenecks here, so it's all the more important to maintain this strip of land because it's basically a bridge to the last hammock hut.
This hammock hut is where I love to spend my time, and it's not been free of erosion problems. The only things holding it up are two crooked trees, but there is nothing underneath, so I've been slowly piling river rocks under this hut to support it.
In this shot you can see the other hammock hut that is closer to the houses. This big washout is between the two hammock huts, and I'm a bit tempted to see if I can terrace it and make it the new path to the huts. That will take lots of time of course, something in short supply at the moment.
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