Family news:

Rainy season has arrived.

The rice is being planted. In our "dry" (upper fields without irrigation) we have delivered fertilizer and will flood/mix and plant them in the near future.

We bought seedlings last week for the lower fields to be planted.
It hasn't rained much yet but the clouds are starting to appear, so we're hoping an end to the terrible heat.

We are building a covered building on the rice farm so we can more easily make fertilizer.
The farm is rented out for chicken raising, and the manure is sold. But if we mix it with rice hay and compost, it will be more valuable than just selling manure.

Chano is much better and working now.
We have rice orders and have started staff packing and filling them.
Fred and I are going to the farm to have a dinner with the local barangay leader. We had originally scheduled this when Dr. Ito was killed so it was postponed.

Interestingly, when we went to the farm yesterday, we passed an army checkpoint.
The NPA is active, and I guess the crackdown on "militants" has come here.