Post-Intermission

Hooray! We are now back in business.  The illusive internet has finally been subdued brought into service...at least for now.  Everyday holds a new surprise!
One fine day, too far back for my short term memory to recall, our internet chip suddenly and decisively failed.  Stubbornly, it resisted all pleadings and demands to work. In the end the it was decided that they would throw out the worthless troublemaker and set up the volunteers with wireless.  Sounded like the best idea yet.  People have a habit of deceiving themselves.

Impartial to our situation the earth revolved merrily as before.  First once, then twice, then thrice and so on continuously adding to the growing number of days it took to resolve the problems.  "Tomorrow, they will do it" was the habitual response to our inquiries. I have yet to live through a tomorrow. It became painfully clear that it was not about to happen soon. In order to accomplish some desired tasks I even took our laptop to the office which has wireless internet, but as if I had been jynxed the internet was shut of after about five minutes.  Reluctantly, I resigned myself to my fate of solitary cyber isolation. Someone, I do not know who, had the brilliant idea to buy a new internet chip.  By this time we were happy to try anything. Soon enough they gave us the chip and with high hopes we tested it...suspense...loading...authenticating...please wait...Sorry, the remote computer is not responding.  Thus is the sad saga of our struggle.  Calling, testing, giving, taking back, hoping ensued and continued for the next few days until the 1st of March.  With the beginning of a new month, the internet service must have come back from vacation or something, because it now works properly. Hopefully this is no fleeting phantom of functioning internet, that rises for an instant and dissipates the next.
It is the obvious moral of the story that if you want internet never buy an internet chip.  If that is not good enough try this.  Do not get connected to the world, besides what happens if you loose connection...you could go crazy like us.
Wait, do not cut your internet connection just yet, because you never know when I will post again. Thanks, this is your Post Host, David.

Even Worms Have Problems

It, like most things started with an idea, and the ideas sprout from brainstorming, while brainstorms occur when problems need solving.  Our problem was if  we used the hand held wire mesh sifter (the only thing available) it took all day to separate a few pounds of vermi (I guess that is supposed to mean worms) from the vermi-compost, taken from our worm farm.  We did not fancy spending the rest of our lives separating vermi-compost.  We are, therefore, indebted to this problem for the master piece that resulted from it.  With the idea in mind, we set about finding random pieces of metal and cutting sporadically, and organizing them into shapes and patterns.  

We tried to make it work but as usual we ran into delays. Then one fine morning there was a spark of hope, or at least sparks flying from the welders machine, and within about two hours our idea was standing.  What a relief.

However, celebrations can be interrupted, but interruptions are not always bad especially if it means lunch time or dunch, as we call it, because  by the time we finish cooking it is neither lunch or dinner, so we have dunch. 

Just getting the wire mesh was fun enough, and securing it to our contraption was a breeze. Well someone had to generate a breeze, I was roasting in the sun!  Don't worry I did not suffer alone, the mosquitoes kept faithful company with me. 

By the end of a long day we had finished it, and it had finished us as well.  Too tired and too late to test our mechanism we contented ourselves to pursue the the triumph, the next day. Besides leftovers we beckoning to me from inside.

NEXT DAY!

Ever so carefully we were paraded our creation to the garden we had marked out.  We set the separator at an angle, then as we threw the compost in worms and all, the fine rich compost would filter down through the mesh, and because of the slant the larger particles and worms would tumble down and fall out the end.  The cumbersome contraption performed beautifully, exceeding our expectations.

By these ingeniously simple means we created two piles, one of rich organic fertilizer to rejuvenate our soil, the other to be reinvested in the vermi-compost business.  Poor worms, they probably never went on a roller coaster ride before.  I am sure some of them were scared to death.  Everyone has to go through tough times sometime...wait a minute it is not time for the moral yet. 

That was the adventure, and it was a fun adventure.  I wish I could tell you all that happened in more detail, like how we used a hatchet and hammer to cut rebar, and how the there was no power when the welder came the first time, how we used geometry to make an octogonal tube because circular was too hard to do, and so forth, but we could not do that because we would never get to the moral of the story.  Are you ready? Never ever live in a muddy earth because when it come time to leave home it can be something terribly difficult and painful, especially for worms.    It might be close but let me see if we cannot do better than that.  You never know if an idea will work until you try it, then be prepared because it could either happen or just take forever to get it done.

Thanks again folks, this David your Post Host, and I hope you put down compost on your garden because you never know when I will post again.

Moringa Tree Very Pretty.

Little did I know there would be one of those many miracle herbs growing in my own front yard.  When I first heard about this useful plant, the Moringa tree, I thought oh it is one of those...I wonder if really is the multi-vitamin, cure-all, must-have-or-suffer plant that people said it is.  Sandra came to rescue me from my dubious state of skepticism by sending us a couple of websites with a wealth of worthwhile information on the nutritional and medicinal value of this leafy green organism.

Like a cantankerous weed it has infested our lives.  Every morning we partake of this herb.  I have even started indulging myself in the habit of grazing on the trees, and it so happens that these leafy blessings grow next to our goat farm, so I always have someone to keep company.  Now for a personal example of the effectiveness of this plant.  I arrived in India with a bad cough from a previous brush with illness, and the stubborn cough would not relinquish its grip.  Exasperated, I finally decided to do something.  I became stricter with my diet, got more outside exercise, and started on the Moringa.  After two days I had noticed considerable improvement and with about two weeks of it the tyrannical cough was suppressed and vanquished.  By now you should be  thoroughly convinced of the Moringa magic.  But just to help it sink in a little better, here are some facts nutritional facts about this herb.

Gram for gram, Moringa leaves contain:

• 7 times the vitamin C in oranges
• 4 times the calcium in milk
• 4 times the vitamin A in carrots
• 2 times the protein in milk
• 3 times the potassium in bananas
• 3 times the iron in spinach

For this information we give a hearty thanks to moringaforlife.com. Not only it it highly nutritious but it has wonderful healing capacities.  I was reading about it after starting to take it and they said it is especially good for lungs and bronchial problems.  That is true! So the moral of the story is if it is edible eat it!  Let us try that again, if man makes something question its value, but if God makes something you know it is good for the use of man, I just have not figured out what mosquitoes are useful for.