Sorry Jet, there's not a lot of action in this one, yet. There is a lot of fiddling about, trying out ideas untill the house is done, the trucks stop coming and hoards of people stop trampling everything. Besides, if I post everything in one go, there will be a long and boring wait untill I get back there, and the fun really starts. Iv'e also got loads of other excuses, that I won't bore you with for the mo.

Here is one of the Saak trees, after about five weeks, before the rains came.



Members/fans of the building thread, will remember the Banana plants, hung out to dry on the ceremonial first posts. They stayed up there for a long time and I assumed that they had had it. One did not survive but the other two are keeping a sugar cane company, and are doing well at the front of the soil mound.



Meanwhile, down at the back of the lake, life was slowly getting back to normall.



Now to do something at the front of the lake. After we had the drain pipe put in, and the land built up a bit, there was a nice little bit for a tree garden. Unfortunately, everything that we put in was relentlesly nibbled by the cows. This excuse for an Isaan syle fence, using timber liberated from the scaffolding, and anything to hold it together, was a last ditch attempt to keep the perishers off.



It was decorated with 'thorny sticks' and worked a treat. Later, I liberated every scap, that I could find, to put some sort of solid edge, around the lake, to ramp up the soil.



Again, it would not win any prizes, but kept me amused for ages. Later, It will be made to look a bit nicer, but it is ok for now.



You can just see, in back and to the left, the broken drain pipes, that didn't make the drain. I will attempt to sink these, to make some raised beds at the entrance to my tree garden.