family news

 Kuya is almost finished the harvest. So we now have money can can pay back some of what had to be borrowed from the government to harvest the last crop, with some money left over to prepare the fields for the main harvest once the monsoon starts.

 
We now have money so the roof is being repaired. With plastic wrap for now, which will work until the next signal 3 typhoon hits.

we replaced the koi in our small fountain three times, each time most of them died at ten days (usually a sign of new fishtank high nitrogen), but the last group survived. 

 But the fountain kept losing water, probably from a leak (due to settling) so they now decided to fix the fountain and removed the fish. '

I am a bit mad about it: the fish are a joy to watch, and keep the mosquito larvae down. So why didn't they fix it after the last group of koi died from the weather/typhoon/prolonged loss of electricity for the pump that keeps the fountain oxygenated? Because no money. The money for last year's major harvest was stolen by the rice dealer...

Joy is busy: She was on the radio for an interview on Friday about the latest education program for the young about how to run a small agribusiness and manage their small farms.

The gov't here pushes organic food, which is good. But this is labor intensive and more expensive than growing food with machinery and chemical fertilizer/herbicides. but there is a market for this because of the growing middle class, and they are seeking a way to export it to get a higher price.

The bad news is that the ecocrazies are now trying to stop everyone from growing rice because it is a major source of greenhouse gas,...

in other news: dog fights over the lady dog in heat, but not as severe last night because Barry, our large dog, won the fight. And we blocked the area in the garage where he was going out to seek love from the ugly dog (mange) down the street, so we only hear the neighbor's dogs fighting over her.

Dr. C keeps talking about excess deaths in the UK. we are having a lot of deaths here, but most are old people with heart, kidney, or lung disease.

Me, I am high risk: and my immune system must have been poor because I had complicated dengue and fatigue etc for six months afterward. Then I got shingles without a rash. So now a big shot Senator in the USA is shown coming back to work after a shingles attack. My sympathies lady, but I also noted you are cachexic so wonder what messed up your immune system. Lolo had shingles ten years before his leukemia showed up, and my aunt had severe shingles six years before her lymphoma showed up. Me, I figure dengue messed up my immune system. And no, anti vaxxers: I didn't get the Pfizer shot: I got the AZ shot which only kills with blood clots, and that was two years earlier.