Hello Hive
Fire outbreaks are usually a very common thing, especially in this season when almost everything is dry. Just yesterday alone we recorded a series of fire outbreaks in the town razing down homes and hostels in different locations. I even heard from the news how our federal government warehouse caught fire in Abuja. In another incident, a government school hostel was razed down, and in another, a popular actress's home caught fire.
Having everything so dry, a little spark can cause a fire, and we all know the irreparable losses a fire outbreak can cause.
We can't allow the children to play with matches or any object that can cause sparks.
On our way back from the farm yesterday, where we had gone for the harvest of our final portion of the beans.
We realized that hunters have started bush burning already. And aside from that, there is this termite invasion that is disturbing the community closest to our farms.
It is a yearly thing that happens in the dry season; multiples of any come out of nowhere to cover people's homes. This sometimes happens when we are asleep, only to be woken up in the middle of the night and see that the whole house is covered with ants. The only means we have often used back then was to burn rags over the ants, setting as many of them on fire to clear the house.
Doing that at this time is dangerous; hence I have advised the neighbors there if they can get insecticide rather than the fire approach; who knows, insecticide might be effective against the ants.
A more preventive method is to stop disposing of their kitchen waste around the house, especially water containing all sorts of cooking oil.
Hopefully they will be getting rid of these ants rather than risk starting a fire that can burn down our farms.
We dropped by to check on our cassava farm and to ensure that there are no potential grasses surrounding the footpath that can draw in fire.
And then the guinea corn that is waiting to be harvested too. All plans must be made in a hurry to harvest crops in order to avoid any tragedy from having cows come to feed on our farms or having fire burn down what is ripe and ready to be harvested.
The search for a machine to peel our beans is still on, and Daddy is giving it a deadline of today. If, peradventure, we cannot get that done, we may have to peel this by hand, as all our work is done in haste against time.
Once the beans task is cleared out between now and the weekend, we can then concentrate on cutting guinea-corn/sorghum.