First Five Steps

Whatever my plans are now, I have to accelerate towards its fruition. I can no longer dream and then let it just hang in the clouds. Because I am now in my wrinkled age, I should move at a faster pace towards my dream’s coming into reality. Kala mo naman kung anong dream ko.

I am only talking about Annie’s Mini Farm.

Where life would be slow and quieter.

Where my family can have  a simple life together a la probinsya.

Where we can sleep under the kulambo amidst fireflies.

Where Edmund can grow the most delicious lettuce, basil, rosemary and thyme.

Where I can pick lovely roses, hydrangeas, and pandan.

Where my children can go  fishing together in the tiny pond.

Where we can all  run around trying to catch  tutubi (dragonflies) just like in my childhood.

Where we can bathe in the rain and roll in the grass.

It cannot just be a dream. A farm takes time to mature because it needs lots of trees and flowers and bees. I cannot wait for ten years to make the move. How long would it take before a mango, narra, yakal trees grow as high as a two story house? Five to ten years. I have to plant now. AS in now. And I should buy trees that are taller than I am. Cannot be 6 inches seedlings, baka 100 years old na ako eh hindi pa lumalaki.

I’ve made my first five steps towards having a mini farm come into reality. First, I’ve found a lot where grass is green, the air is fresh and the breeze is cold. Big enough to have a couple of trees, a cottage house and a barn. But too small to have Mister and Misis Cow.

Oyen met a family who owns a cattle farm in Batangas. They told her cows live on pasture land with abundant grass. Organic kung baga. And the ratio is ideally one cow per hectare. Oh oh, that means we cannot even have ONE cow.

I had the mujon relocated by a geodetic engineer to establish the correct boundaries. The neighbor is encroaching by a few meters. Just as I have suspected it.
I met with her yesterday morning and told her to dismantle the structures.
I will go back tomorrow to see if she did what she had to do. I will also give her a formal letter.

I got a few guys to start digging 5 meters sideways for the entrance gate.  My gate would be made of old wood.  I want it to look and feel probinsya talaga.

A small portion was burning when I arrived. Bawal na ang magsiga. That destroys the ozone layer.

I am not sure yet if I want to have a cottage house that’s similar to this.

This looks cute actually but it’s very expensive at P130,000. It’s only 13 square meters.
Driver———–“Mam, parang condo ha, P10,000 isang meter. Tulad na sya ng condo sa Makati”.

(P150,000 + ang condo ngayon.)

Driver———- “Mam, siguro kung singkwenta mil yan baka pinatulan mo pa ano?”

(Is he my financial analyst?)

Driver———– “Naku mam, pano na yung mga nine footer? Hindi kasya dyan si sir. Hindi yan uubra sa nine footer”.

(Hindi nine footer si Edmund, ano yun kapre?)”