While making a Hive post, I looked out the window and saw Mey-Yii shampooing her hair in the rain, then my daughters joined in.
Only In Cambodia 🌧️
Mey-Yii, a neighbor girl that has become a fixture in our household over the last few months, now spends about 4 or 5 hours each day at our house. Although not poor, her guardian Grandma has other priorities in life than caring for this child. She usually watches me leave the house in the tuk-tuk to get the girls from school, knowing that in about an hour and a half I'll return with her playmates.
There are days where I can see she didn't leave her waiting spot, basically sitting motionless for almost two hours awaiting the return of the @kidsisters. On this day Mey-Yii made her presence known by walking over in a rainstorm and borrowing our shampoo for an outdoor hair wash. I guess she must feel pretty comfortable here now to just come over and wash her without saying hi first, so when I looked out the window and saw her shampooing in the rain, we both had a laugh and I sent my daughters out for a rainy headwash.
👩💻 The Hive Sisters 👩💻
Monkey-B is increasingly showing interest in posting more often, but making a draft in PeakD comes along with a screen time request for podcasts. It's exciting to see her start contributing more to the shared @kidsisters account I made for them so long ago.
Monkey-B has always been interested in reading posts, and I suppose this has helped her have an understanding of what a post should consist of. I give her no guidance other than spelling help, but otherwise she creates the post idea on her own and executes it. I encourage them to use their bluetooth keyboards so that can improve their typing skills while Hivin'.
R.I.P. Hammock Hut #2 🪦
I've known the flood basically destroyed our second hammock hut for quite some time, but I've intentionally been avoiding a visit because it is depressing. This hut was built of newer wood and had a new-ish roof, and was definitely the better of the two huts we have, plus it overlooked our little swimming area, which is now a massive river swimming pool thanks to the flood.
I've also been avoiding this slope because it was/is very unstable, and I was hoping for three days of sunshine to harden the ground before beginning any disassembly attempts. Today I managed to dislodge 4 planks and haul them up the former hillside which is now a cliff that requires all four limbs to climb, so you can imagine how hard it is carrying heavy pieces of wood up to the top.
Before any work even began, I had to cut many limbs and bamboo that were engulfing the hut. After going inside I worked to dislodge all the grass and tree branches that were hugging every support beam and post. 50% of the floor planks are simply gone, likely somewhere off the coast of Thailand living the good life. Who knows, perhaps the Thais were harvesting all the Cambodian flood wood dumping out into the ocean there, and it's nice imagining my floor is now part of some guy's house in a neighboring country.
Just as I was about to call it quits for the day, a sudden rainstorm came and didn't let up. I wasn't too happy to be on this slope during heavy rains, but my crocs are bald and the way up super slick. I had an axe and saw to carry, not good items to hold if you have to slide down a hill and land in a river like a scene out of an Indiana Jones movie.
The above photo shows the only way back home, a former path that had a bamboo handrail and a nice flat high lip full of rocks and roots at the river's edge that provided a chance you wouldn't fall in if you slid all the way to the bottom. It is now an obstacle-free ski slope perfectly designed to send you into the river at maximum velocity. I eventually made it back to the house soaking wet, changed clothes, and lived happily ever after, the end.
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Return from Shampooing In The Rain 🚿, The @KidSisters Hivin' Side-By-Side 👩💻, & The Hammock Hut's Sad Death 🪦 to Justin Parke's Web3 Blog
