Luckily we got the big generator going, since both of my small generators need to be fixed.
Why do I have two small generators? Well I bought one for when the large generator is on the blink, or when it was being used at the farm, mainly to run our airconditioner in the afternoon.
But then when the big generator went on the blink and they needed electricity for the farm, they "borrowed" it for so long I just went out and bought a back up one.
I will have to get them fixed, but I budget for extras, and last week the extras was to pay for the dog's vet bill, and this week it is to pay for the diesel for the large generator, plus pay for extras I didnt buy last week, such as Frontline to keep fleas and ticks off our dogs. Yes it is a chemical and expensive, but it is the only thing that works.
Because no electricity for welding, they couldn't fix the harvester/thresher machine (dubbed "the beast" by the farmers). So today they plan to go to do another rice harvest. it is clear so nearly every day they are harvesting or drying the rice. Usually they dry rice on a flat surface, either concrete (such as roads, parking lots or tarps on flat dirt) but we have an area to dry it on the high farm plot that can't be irrigated. That used to be used for raising pigs, and then we built chicken coops to raise chickens under contract, until a typhoon flattened them about eight years ago and we decided to use the area for fruit trees and rice storage. Ditto for the organic vegetable green houses (you raise them in green houses so you don't need to spray for bugs. The green houses were plastic on a frame, so alas don't stand up to 90 mph winds).
the annual US/Philippine military exercizes are going on this week, and so we are hearing helicopters going over, usually early in the morning or early evening.
We live a couple miles from a major military/airbase where the Philippine special forces usually trains the US soldiers in jungle warfare, and they practic working together for disasters or war, just in case China wants to include Luzon in their lost territory grab
During WWII, when the Japanese invaded, Lolo's older brother went off to hide in Mt Arayat with other anti Japanese guerillas, but Lolo and his mom and cousin walked to the farm to be safe.
So Lolo assured me that in case of war etc. I would be safe, and since we grow rice, we'd always have rice to eat.
But would this be true with modern warfare? And if a million refugees from Manila thought the same thing and started walking north to safety?
Oh well...
in case of war, we will all move to Florida to stay with relatives there.
My son reports they have floods in Florida now. But hey, like the Philippines, hurricanes, thunderstorms, floods, etc. are just something that goes along with living in a tropical paradise.
Hope that Russia doesn't decide to nuke Disneyworld...
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