The Yard: Adventures in Tropical Horticulture
The original backyard: chest-high in lalang and swamp beyond
Still! Lots of possibilities abound for doing something nice and interesting when the time comes to fill. But first, I have to deal with the jungle that has grown up in the last seven years. Here is the yard when I took it over:
After cutting and burning all the brush and grass, here is where I am now, two weeks later:
The backyard after two weeks of thrashing
Now I have found that the back fence has not just been overgrown, but has been completely vanquished. At least one tree has toppled on to it, and I fear there is another trunk under the last big mound of vegetation. While the fence has been down, all manner of viney, creepy plants have wound in and out of the fence, tying it to the ground. So my next step is to reclaim my property line with the aid of my trusty parang. The parang is the local version of a machete, but with nice heft and weight, curved and balanced for easy swinging. They sell straight-from-Brazil machetes in the hardware store too, but in my opinion, the parang is a better tool.
Stay tuned: my adventures with the yard will be chronicled in breathless detail here as events unfold.
Coool! A garden project!!!
ok bro when do i get my parang in the mail. happy b day too love ya chanol
Thank you thank you. Same to you, old man.
when do i get my parang in the mail
How about a picture of your parang in the e-mail? You want the real thing, you can come here to collect
nice, u got me there. almost as old man as me;c)
By any chance, are you living in Lorong C8?
Salams NSDS3 –
Why don’t you stop over some evening? Just send me an email and I’ll tell you right where it is.
I has the son of a farmer from Peck Michigan-yes, an honest-to-god peckerwood- among our subsribers at Three Roods Farm this season. He took an interest in my tools, aepecially my parang. he commented that it was constructed along the same design principles as a samurai sword. In cross section the parang is triangular which gives it more heft and sharpens better. I have a brazilian machete that I brought back from the west indies cut from a sheet of steel. I much prefer the parang. I have a “chop chunki lima”parang, symbol of quality, so they tell me.
Was that your dad commenting?
I like what I read on his farming concept. Husband and I have agreed to have similar farming ways and concept as what your parents have. Umm, just need to get a land.
Is it so peculiar to have a dream of quiting job in the capitalistic vulturistic corporate world to toil under the sun and getting our hands soiled?
Hmm, I’m on my “I am gonna comment on every post in here” again.
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