The last two months have mainly been a daily slog to do these two things. Sunil works for a few hours with the grass cutter to reclaim meter after square meter of land from the wild flood-jungle it had become. And we have had the JCB digger in again to make the compost mix and fill the remaining trenches and pits, some of which had to be deepened.
We’re trying to get an engineer to come in and advise us on the pond and rainwater harvesting tanks we want to build. Those will give us the mud we need to finish filling to area next to the dam, which has been raised. The top layer will be the compost mix so that we can plant all along the nala. Everything depends on something else.
We’re also rebuilding a couple of walls which fell down in the floods. Somehow, it always seems like a race to get everything done in time before the monsoons strike again!
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