Cashew harvesting

Every morning, we go around the land looking for those ripe cashew fruits..either they have already fallen and are hidden in the leaves or they simply can be plucked; one only does it if they freely and willingly come off..

  Carrying a bucket you fill it up slowly..it can be quite harduous, crawling on your knews to pick that one cashew this far between the braches..red ants crawling along and not to forget the sun!

  When we have collected them all, we seperate the fruit from the nut and use the fruit to make compost..

  Anyone interested? come along :)

  

windmill a crashing down

  Finally, the blades painted and the axel greased, we started to winch the fan up.  Slowly going up, two guys down with ropes pulling the fan away from the tower so as it is free to rise and 2 others up on the top winching away..  Reaching the platform the cable decided to snap!  

Everyone under ran for cover, the fan, weighing 350kg, decided to dig into the tower at half way..

  

Catching into one of the rods, it bent the tower in many places, the ladder is bent like a

 snake and several blades are crooked!

  one guy at the top as the cable snapped, which he was holding

 so the it wind properly into the winch, shooked him and he got unsta

ble - luckily he grabbed the tower and held for his life!

  He banged his head in the rocking of the tower when the fan went into the tower! He is fine..

  Strangely, i had seen him fall and with my visualisation somehow kept him up there or atleast made his fall soft; and kept asking myself how would they do if they had to repair one of the pipes of the tower do they have to remove the whole tower?

  already 2 weeks gone by, water level low..let see what to do next?

  Every drop of water counts!

Windmill painting

  "why don't you paint it from ontop?!" is what most people are suggesting as i would save money..

  i think if it would be brought  down; a better job would be done especially the primer!

  i tried following colors in line with the 2 petals that radiate this direction

 (courage & progress) - figured not matching..atleast the name lumière is good!

  been a week now, we being careful with the wate

r consumption (of course)..

  The soul of the land, our source of water, pumped by alternative energy, yes!

  

fundraising for the forest

http://www.auroville.com/donate_to_auroville.php

this is a link to fundraise for the Auroville forest, this year we are not funded by anyone/group, makes it difficult for all of us to plant this season. 

 thank you for passing this around to your friends! (bow)

garbage smell, Cashew pesticides

  Woke up this morning to the smell of the Pondy garbage burning all the way from Forecomers, on the otherside of the canyon, berk!

 Am so glad we moved all the way north of Auroville to Lumière, far better, even though every now and then we get a little of that stench..

  Surrounded by the cashew fields, we are

 good for the moment.  Anyday, the neighbors (villagers) are 

going to spray cashew eventually if not today :)

  

  

crow

up on our skynet tower (15m above the roof) sits a crow, he likes that place..
he is around..i like crows; indians when they eat, they always give a little to the crows
Mr.R (name kept hidden) said, "Humans and crows will be the only survivors"
They have this incredible intelligence..

Sarasa, our beautiful dog

Asmara gave that name to our pup..
He is maybe 2 1/2 months now...
He has gone to hell and back - amazing, he had canine distemper a common thing for dogs..even worse is this place has something with dogs, i mean to of our big coconut trees are planted on dead dogs..i mean i lost hope..one afternoon i came back to see him jumpy and energetic and running, that was such a relief.
i did do some EFT and Theta healing on him..did that help? :)
got him vaccinated..

Happy birthday Dhambhai :)

Curious enough, our worker picked up a bunch of lemons (lots) from our tree..i carried them with me thinking i will give them as an offering to Indus valley, good timing, it is Dharmesh's birthday :)
i tried giving them to a school on the way as i happened to bump into one of the teachers she thought i should give them to someone else..
Indus valley being a gift economy place, i thought nice way to return in kind

Protection fence + holy cow

at times i am so grateful for how things can workd out...
it has been a while that i want to improve the fence as the cows enter from so many places, "mulus" (thorns) have been planted, but because of the cashew covering them, they grow very little and creep of the tree which at the end of the day does another purpose..
i have tried talking to the cows, cause actually i do not mind them, they shit all over, the eat the creepers off the growing plants and they are great company (SMILE)...i should try talking to them more because they somehow do eat off the tip of the growing evergreen plants :( or walk so close at times on them and that is sad and heart breaking, as so much attention and love has been put in them.
i mean we had so many parents with their children there for 2 days planting away. beautiful experience..
of course, if i barbed wire the land (17 acres) it would do the job! but...i have planted the tree of abundance, hoping it will shower contributions in the form of colored paper ("money") taking time for the fruits to bear
anyway, called up V. for her permission to take cuttings of the bougainvillia (Protection, Mother's name) could not reach her. the next day i show up at her place and the worker is pruning the thorny plant, super and here i am to take them...i like that! how did that happen?
so home i went with so may cuttings, to put in a bed and get 'em ready for the monsoons! :)
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Blog adventure+photo venture

One hella of a day...
Printing pictures for our workers makes them really happy, even thought it is hard making them smile for the picture.
Then, gettin Catherine to teach me how to use my blog and add new features, was fun..
so voila, printed workers and a days end with new ideas, blog enriched and feeling good