There is more than enough work that needs to be done on our new land, and the main priority at the moment is erosion control.
I Lost My Wife In A Pipe ⛑️
The rain hasn't let up for days, and our land is full muddy clay, making our shoes very sticky and very heavy. In a few days @sreypov's brother and a carpenter friend will arrive to renovate the small cabin on the cliff we are currently calling home.
We've been busy preparing for the arrival of our guests, and know they will be much colder here at night than where they live. They might want to sleep in the shack by the highway, so the wife decided to bail the water out of the above-ground cistern there and give it a good cleaning.
Monkey-B On A Mission 🚽
While taking pictures of Pov I noticed Monkey-B shuffling by while holding her tummy. She was in a hurry to make it to the bathroom, so I didn't waste her time with any witty banter.
Srey-Yuu Hard At Work 👩💻
After leaving Pov I went to check on Srey-Yuu, and I found her making Pov's Culture Corner post, something her mom has more or less delegated to her. I sense she doesn't enjoy curation work nor want to learn more about it, but luckily I've got a fast learner in Srey-Yuu. Pretty soon it will be Srey-Yuu's Culture Corner 😉.
Outdoor Dishwashing 🧼
We don't have a proper kitchen or any tables to do any cooking on, so for now all eating and washing is done at the ground level, and because we don't have running water at the bigger house, the most convenient place to wish dishes is outside by the rain barrel.
Not far from the dishwashing area is one of the low spots of the land. There was originally sinkhole forming by the edge of the house, but I've managed to mound the dirt up by the house and dig a drainage ditch to pull water away from the house.
My Projects 🪨
Mostly I have been a drainage ditch digger the last week, and it seems there is no end to the sinkholes and erosion I have to manage. The bathroom had no way to evacuate other than sending it out a pipe at the corner of the building, so I've been digging a ditch to evacuate the water, as well as excavating the dirt and replacing it with river rocks so we can help avoid a muddy bathroom
At the back of the property there is a massive erosion problem, both from a random collapse and made worse by water rushing down to it from the land aobve us. I built a catchment down by the river and mounded up dirt to divert the water rushing to elsewhere.
The rainy season is fast approaching and there is no vegetation on the land to provide a net of roots to make the land more stable. I have been cutting seed tops of wild plants and scattering them all over the dirt to try and get anything growing.
Any cuttings, compost or excess dirt all gets dumped her because we need to build this area back up again. Our land bottlenecks here, so it's all the more important to maintain this strip of land because it's basically a bridge to the last hammock hut.
This hammock hut is where I love to spend my time, and it's not been free of erosion problems. The only things holding it up are two crooked trees, but there is nothing underneath, so I've been slowly piling river rocks under this hut to support it.
In this shot you can see the other hammock hut that is closer to the houses. This big washout is between the two hammock huts, and I'm a bit tempted to see if I can terrace it and make it the new path to the huts. That will take lots of time of course, something in short supply at the moment.
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I smiled a little, when you said that you lost your wife in the pipe...
heeeemmm .... quite exciting when I read the contents of the post you wrote today.
apparently where you are lately it's been raining, and the soil around where you live becomes clay slightly yellowish, so when it rains the soil turns into clay.
Talking about the scenery around where you live, no doubt, it definitely makes the heart feel calm and peaceful, because the river flows so clear even though it just finished raining,
about washing dishes outside, which @sreypov does I can understand it, because I've experienced it too, in the beginning we moved to a new place, like you are experiencing now.
It will take a long time to make this place more comfortable, but slow and steady wins the race as they say. When everything is finished here and we have some renters, I'll be spending my time in the hammock hut by the river. Until then we will be cooking and washing a lot outdoors.
This is so cool! Reading your post makes me want to pick up a shovel myself and start digging!
Of course, there is only so much you can do (even if your upvoters were there to help you with the shoveling.) The rains will come, and erosion will continue. However, now that you are there, you can mediate its effects in the shorter term, and prevent it in the longer term. A lot of it is common sense, the rest will be made up of experience. But seeing it all in action is what makes it so exciting!
Very true, and so important not to take on too many projects in the beginning. It's all too easy to get overwhelmed, so I've kept focusing on short-term goals and little projects.
Gosh, the girls are growing so fast!
I'm pretty sure my daughter would feel the same. 😆
She mentioned your acquisition of land in one of the curations, so I congratulated her on the good news, but she was quick to put it back on being the parents' land. After reading this, it certainly sounds like it's a LOT of work so maybe that's a hint at why she'd rather disown it for herself.
I hope you can get it ready to stand up to the coming rains. Fingers crossed for something sprouting to hold some of that soil in.
I think you got her personality pegged. In a few months she'll be a teenager, but she's been acting like one for far too long. I'm starting to see small signs of success with my efforts cutting wild plant seed tops and scattering them all over the mud.
Lol! Maybe they start early these days. With all that life experience under her belt it probably shouldn't be surprising, though.
Good news on the sprouting seeds. Hopefully all your work and them will start to combat the erosion.
Such a delight to read this post. Wow.. Now I can see what the behind the scene looks like in SreyYuu's culture corner.. wahaha.. =) Nice place to stay and it's great to be able to build stuff around like in Minecraft but is in real life. Great to see that you have already a plan to stop the erosion. A really great pace to live in that is close to nature and the best place is on a hammock.. =)
I only recently learned what Minecraft is, and yes, definitely some similarities, although I think there are no zombies at night here. If there are any zombies here at night, they are welcome to eat brains in the hammock huts if they pay $5 for the night.
Hehhe.. Minecraft's zombies that come out at night bytes... It's a fun game instead of those violent ones.. wahaha.. my nephew builds huge world's in his Minecraft and even names sections after me. Hahahaha.. Monkey B or SreyYuu plays minecraft. Hahah.. that hammock could be a cash cow. Hammock for a night... USD 5. Tourist flocking in. 😀😀
The clay does make shoes or sandals heavy because the soil sticks, I often feel it, It's a little annoying, I'm attracted to the hut by the river, I can see comfortable for relaxing, clay that does not grow plants does create a risk of landslides, especially when it rains heavily.
It's true, clay is a bit of a problem, but the original dirt under it is not clay, so I hope it will be stable after the rainy season. Once we get some trees and things with long roots growing, I'll feel safer about the future of the situation with landslides and erosion.
Ok. Good luck in fixing the erosion. Can't see any immediate quick fix rother than send a bulldozer to stuck a pile of rock by the edge. But that will spoil the whole scene.
Oh those picture where Pov working on the well, Monkey-B looks absolutely like her 😂
I have been thinking of trying to terrace the property, perhaps three tiers, but it would take ages just me alone with the shovel. The collapsing land would be an easy place to start the terracing project from. If we did this we could use the flat spaces for gardening and or placing mini bungalows nearer to the river.
Monkey-B certainly takes after her mom in many ways, and I see a lot similar mannerisms and habits.
The habit of highland places like this always rains, but I like the cool and comfortable atmosphere here, the air is fresh and clean.
Surely every morning we can also hear the sound of birds chirping, that's amazing for me.
The place is very loud, even at night, but it is all sounds from nature. The insects, rapids, and sounds of the forest all combine to make an incredible soundtrack.
Gosh, you guys have alot of projects on the go. It will be great to have your cliffside home all fixed up. Nice to have tradies in the family. Maybe the friend can knock together a kitchen table.
We definitely need some help, especially in the beginning. Once we have a well-oiled machine, I'm sure the family and I will be able to maintain it and still have time for work. The brother-in-law comes on Saturday, so I hope the two of us can get more done faster.
Only a day to wait then extra productivity can happen for you. It's hard when you have so many things to do all at once. If you can't complete one job at a time and tick it off the list it feels like no progress is happening.
It looks like the ground is not very good, a lot of water flows through it, it will cause landslides, fall into the river, it is really difficult to find a way to prevent water.
We just need a few trucks of dirt and some more time to let the grass start growing on the land. It will be okay sister.
There is so much to do and it looks like you have everything under control. I hope that you can get the erosion under control as well.
It's all manageable, but time is the master each day, and I only seem to have less and less of it lately.
I sure hope you can get stuff growing to help with the erosion. This new property will keep you busy for a long time to come.
It will indeed keep us busy, but once we have a renter we'll have a safety net so we can justify spending more time working the land.
Erosion really deteriorate the land and make land unfit for use. I wish you all the best in your project to help in erosion control
Plants will be the key, and the roots to hold everything together. The hillsides are covered in trees and roots, but the flat ground above is bare, and every rainstorm washes more land away. We'll need several trucks of dirt to reinforce the house foundations before we do any gardening or planting.
Yes it is true with the root helping in the erosion. I wish you all the best
How will you get trucks of dirt there?
We were told a dumptruck full of dirt around here costs $7.50, not sure how far away, but usually here dirt never travels far because the price is too cheap to make profits because of the fuel costs.
Hut by the river would be my go to spot as well. Got a lot of work on ur hands there sir!
It was our go-to spot, but burning plastic trash right next to it is our neighbor's favorite hobby, so we had to move out. There are public trash cans nearby for the national park, only 100m walk, but that's just too much trouble for a lazy person, so dioxin and carcinogens for everyone.
Burning trash is truly an addiction, and people are really sensitive about their right to continue doing it, even if we are the ones whose house is foghatted by them each day,
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I think there must be less than 100 people living here for many kilometers in all directions. It is very quiet at night, and sometimes even the highway doesn't have even one car drive by all night.
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