Hola everyone, it's Mac once again welcomes you to my new adventure. Before everything else, I would like to thank you for supporting my previous blog.
It was Saturday night when my sister in law messaged me via messenger that my goat's kid is about to be weaned. She said that I need to get and send it to someone who wants to take care of it for production purposes. With that, I suddenly decided to go home so I can personally talk to someone for the terms and conditions. It was early in the afternoon when I arrived at my elder sister's house. My nephews and niece happily welcomed me and said that their parents are not around. So I asked one of my nephews to bring me to where the goat is pastured so that I could see and estimate the starting price of the kid.
Later on, my brother arrived and asked about my decision. I told him that I'm gonna send the kid to our Uncle and have him take care of it. He then told me to inform the latter in order for him to take the kid. So, I visited my uncle and told him to get the kid tomorrow so we can talk about the terms and conditions. Of course, I have to put up an initial price for the goat as newly weaned And the conditions will be talked about when he arrives. While walking to my uncle's house, I saw an unknown beautiful wild flowers in the farm.
At about 5:00 in the afternoon, I noticed that we don't have drinking water. So I asked my nephew to come with me and fetch some water in the old nature spring. We call it tinubdan, located in sitio Guintigi.an, Brgy. Calambua about more or less 500 meters away from the house.
This is the only spring that Supplies the water needs of our sitio and even some of the surrounding barangays of Tabuelan and San Remigio. My elder sister said that it's about 1&1/2 yrs. of water scarcity. Luckily, this spring didn't stop providing water.
The sunset is about to come and the area is very remote so we expect that it's dark out there. When we arrive, I suddenly felt thirsty maybe because I missed the taste of this water. So, I drank using my hands as a cup😂
There's no one fetching water but there's a lot of containers and gallons around the area.
Students can't just rely on the flow of water every morning because it's slow when opened for a long time. So all they have to do is stock water at night for a cold bath the next morning. During my time in the late 20th century, we didn't need to stock water because the water flow is really fast. We don't even need to cover the pipe because if we do, it will leak around the tank due to water pressure and its abundance. That was around 2012 that this was renovated by one of our neighbors who became a municipal councilor. As his project, he decided to clean and destroy the original tank.
As we all know, we can't go against nature. If we do, we should bear and embrace the consequences. After his renovation, everything changed. The water flows slower and slower until such time that the natives were afraid to lose the water source.
Last year, everyone decided to renovate the area again (hopefully it will be the last time) aiming to:
- widen,
- build a hut to cover the washing area,
- put a solar light and,
- cover the pipe in order to economize the water.
My brother is the one who leads this action and asks for financial help from his friends and acquaintances in the city and via social media . Together with the Oplan Bayanihan locally known as Dagyaw (sense of togetherness and cooperation) from all the natives, they successfully carried out the objective.
From then on, our Nature's Spring is operational until now 😊 thanks for everyone's help😊
I'm afraid this is where my blog ends for today😊 thanks for reading 🤩
We used to fetch water before in an old spring nearby the house. The water was so refreshing and sweet compared to the commercial one. However when time passed by, the surrounding was getting dirtier that led water contamination thus it was stopped. May the locals continue to treasure the goodness of the spring in your place as this is truly a blessing from nature.
Luckily the people nearby keep the area hygienic😊
The flowers is nice Sir @macben . They call it Orange Spider Lily or Amaryllis. I missed our Uma in the mountain before. We used to plant a lot of corn during rainy season
Wow! So that's the name of this flower? Now I know😊 thanks for that info mam @diamondinthesky. Thanks also for reading my blog☺️
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What an adventure, Mac! You have done those goat kids and community projects very well, so well that it depicts the true picture of rural life. Words cannot describe how heartening it is to witness how your family and neighbors are able to conserve such precious assets. Go on, posting these stories, they are all so inspiring!
Thanks for dropping by😊 see you around @itsmemic