Guy and Wilgens have been working in the garden all morning, since sun-up, hoeing and turning over the soil, preparing the garden for planting. Yesterday Benjamin completed the new fence, this one totally goat proof having rows of picker wire woven between the "living" posts that will soon sprout leaves. Wonel designed and built a "door" into the garden made of bamboo and picker wire. So many of us are invested in having a garden plentiful in fruits and vegetables to feed our growing children at Kay Timoun. We are now protected from hungry goats and donkeys, the soil prepared, and we are ready to plant for summer harvest. The banana trees are determined to be a part of the harvest and had sprouted new leaves from the base plant that was left after the last goat assault. They looked so beautiful, bright green leaves poking out of the ground! Wow! Soon we'll have bananas. Yesterday, however, I saw other scavengers in the garden. They had eaten all the new banana leaves. Roosters! Kay Timoun banana plants were being attacked by bold roosters! But not as bold as our kids. Armed with stones, the kids had the roosters gone in no time! They are great protectors of their garden. The moringa trees, in another area close to the house where I can keep watch, have grown full with leaves, protected from goats by a woven basket type cover. I water every day, as directed. Benjamin will build a special fence today to protect the moringa trees from predators. In the meantime, our chickens continue to multiply! This morning Carole took three new eggs for my breakfast. I held them as if they were the finest porcelain china, until I cracked them open into a bowl, and then into a pan of boiling water for the best poached eggs in Haiti!
God's blessings are all over Kay Timoun! Mesi Bondye! (Thank you, God!)
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