Farm Update 13-Nov-2017

The main resting place is undergoing repair work.
It is several days now the artisan has not come.
Yesterday however Subbu told he had come
and started his work.  The knitted coconut leaves
have to be tied to this structure as roof. It requires skill
and very few have that now in village.

I wasn't satisfied myself on the way I had written my previous post.  I wanted to take it down and re-write. But due to some engagements, I could'nt find that required peaceful time.   Last week I attended Amazon Web Services (AWS) classroom training for 3 days sponsored by my company and another 2 days went on finishing some mandatory HR training....blah blah....

Subbu was sick for the past few days. I called him and his wife and wished speedy recovery.  It is dengue season. Luckily he just had cold and fever. Now it has gone. I did not want to disturb him. Therefore our conversations were far and few. I caught up with him yesterday.

As part of storm protection procedure, the windpump
had automatically taken to this shape. The tail is now 90 degrees
to the rotor. This is to prevent the blades from facing the wind during stroms
This is to be reversed only by climbing the tower. I wanted to
take this opportunity to do full overhaul of the windpump

a) The resting place roofing work is going ON. more snaps later.

b) Windpump is my next big target item. It is waiting.  The same artisan who is doing the roofing work has to build a support structure using sticks to reach the wind tower.  So that workers can work from that safely.  I want to paint the blades and tail with aluminium paint.  The screws have to be tightened.

But the most important work would be to rectify the mis-alignment that is still there since installation. I want to fix that.  More story later.

I have no idea about vegetations - current status. But though I know many vegetables are coming up as planned.  Coming 20th the aunty would be in her village. I need to start a shop....

Just a random shot to show the current state of fauna.

The windpump borewell pipes are removed and kept aside neatly.

I like this shot. It shows the trees are mature. 

The jasmine patch is growing well.

Subbu was mentioning this.  Due to heavy rains the cucumber leaves have gone pale.  I warned him earlier itself. Anything which grows and yields fast is not good.