Of course, although I enjoy that type of analysis of literature, it is a bit over my head, since I tend not to be sensitive to such nuances.
Joy is busy with her business, and is taking the day off after three days of trade fairs in Manila.
Kuya is at the farm harvesting rice.
We now rent a harvester/thresher to do this, which is faster but you have to schedule it because a lot of people use the machine.
when we first moved here, the rice was cut by hand, but we had a small thresher that could separate the rice from the straw. But now it is done by machine. We still plant by hand (planting seedlings in mud for the major summer harvest, just casting rice for the second winter harvest that often doesn't give a good yield and requires irrigation so it is more expensive to grow and harvest).
In other news, the maid reports a young girl was attacked by a street dog and died "from rabies".
When there is funding the city gives out free rabies shots (right now, they are short of funds thanks to covid etc). But the girl died in a few days, which can occur with a facial bite, but maybe it was actually from infection. I'll ask Dr Angie next time I see her.
GMA article says there was 122 people died of rabies last year. Of course it could be more, since not everyone goes to the hospital.
When covid hit, a lot of people threw their dogs on the street: very sad. An old lady who lost her husband had her dog thrown out by her grown children when they moved in with her. The dog was ugly, with malnutrition and mange. So we fed it. Mange treatment was expensive, but I had some ivermectin here and that worked as well as the expensive one from the vet. The bad news? She's on her third set of puppies...usually the puppies disappear when half grown. Usually for pets, (she is friendly to all) but we don't check too closely because pooe people have been known to eat dogs here, and right now the price of food has gone up and it is a major crisis for the new president. Import cheap rice to keep the price of rice down? (will help the city poor, but make the rice dealers rich), or wait til the harvest (ah but will local rice be bought at a low price because of the low price of imports?),
They are doing something, but I don't know the details except Kuya had a government order last week but it was cancelled at the last minute.
as for me: I'm living a life of leisure as a retired lady. No problems, no money...oh well.
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