250 Palm Trees

Today is May Day and the lovely beach resort was overrun by Thai holiday-makers, so we have returned to the country house, which makes Poo happy because "I have lots of work to do."

Today's job is to plant 250 palm trees (for oil), which should become profitable in three or four years. Each hole has to be 50 cm x 50 cm x 50 cm, and they must be 9 meters apart.

That means we need to displace 31.25 cubic meters of dirt--that's practically a swimming pool! Ouch.

The plants in the foreground are today's job. In the background is my house. Note the CD dangling in the upper right corner--that was one of my favorite jazz CDs before Jason destroyed it and I threw it away. Poo's father retrieved it from the trash and tied it to the tree as a light reflector. Why? To scare the elephants at night!