Tropical Heritage Garden Diary:

May 2022:

May  01:

A Hot Sunny Day

Documenting Typhoon Rai

May  02:

A Medical Checkup in Tagbilaran

Followed by Tests Elsewhere



and then Lunch



The Roadworks Remain Abandoned

May  03:

Diagnosis and Medicines

Lunch and Shopping

Rain

A Somewhat Larger Harvest

May  04:

Rain

Some Seedlings Have Been Damaged by the Rain



Other Seedlings Will Need Transplanting Soon



Some Earlier Seedlings Are Starting to Fruit



The Perimeter Fence is Nearly Completed

May  05:

Too Hot To Work

Dinner is Delivered

May  06:

Roadworks Still Abandoned

Lunch and Shopping in Tagbilaran

Rain

Fatima Assembles A Mirror

Rain Then Sun

More Paths Cleared

May  07:

Another Lazy Day

A Strange Tree Growing in Our Garden

May  08:

Still Too Hot to Work in the Garden



Some More Work on Documenting the Typhoon

May  09:

Lazy Again

A Bit of Path Clearing

A Giant Caterpillar

May  10:

Roadworks Abandoned Still

Lunch and Shopping

Rain

May  11:

A Sunny Day



Another Path Cleared

May  12:

Hot Again Today

A Small Harvest

May  13:

Lunch, Shopping and Massage in Tagbilaran

Coconut Trees Cut Down To Make Pig Runs Safe

May  14:

Rain

Then The Tree Cutting Continues

May  15:

A Trip to the Hospital

May  16:

A Birthday Breakfast

A Birthday Lunch

A Somewhat Larger Harvest

The Coconut Cutting Continues

and The Ducks Feast on the Fallen Coconuts

 Birthday Dinner With Garden Vegetables and Coconut Juice

May  17:

Workers Temporarily Overload Electricity System

More Tree Cutting

Melon Seedlings Transplanted

May  18:

After the Cutting comes  the Clearing

The Architect Inspects the Typhoon Damaged Pigpen

Measurements are Taken

Newly Born Chicks Investigate their World

May  19:

Some People Come to Collect Debris for Firewood

The Duck Pond is Cleaned and the Turtles Rescued

The Felled Logs are Tidied Up

Another Small Harvest

May  20:

Lunch and Shopping

May  21:

Rain

A Path Cleared

Cherry Tomato Seedlings Transplanted

A Small Harvest

May  22:

The Turtles are Returned to the Pond

Local Lads Trim a Jack Fruit Tree

Transplant a Banana

and Dig a Drainage Hole

May  23:

The Trajectory of the Privacy Wall is Studied

More Holes for the Pig Run Fences Dug

An Unwanted Tree Stump Removed

The Noisy Neighbour Blocks Our Exit Again

May  24:

Lunch and Shopping in Tagbilaran

Roadworks Still Abandoned

Working on The Pig Run Fence

May  25:

Work Continues In the Garden

..and On the Documentation

The Architect Visits

May  26:

After Lunch Work Continues in the Garden

...as Well as Documenting the Typhoon

May  27:

Lunch and Shopping

Still Abandoned Roadworks

The Fencing Continues

A Small Harvest

May  28:

A Celebratory Christening Lunch by a Neighbour

Work Continues

More  New Ducklings

Another Neighbour Blocks the Path Again and Plants Pineapples

One of Pigs Seems to be Unwell and is Fed Coconut Milk

May  29:

A Vet Examines Our Already Improved Gilt

Another Path Partially Cleared

A Lazy Sunday Afternoon

May  30:

Rain

The Noisy Neighbours Have Encroached on Our Property Line

and Built a Fence to Nowhere

Another Neighbour Cuts Down a Tree for Lumber

Work Continues on the New Wall

The Pomegranate is Nearly Ripe

May  31:

While Lunch and Shopping in Tagbilaran

Roadworks Still Abandoned

The Garden Work Continues