Sometimes I misinterpret these words lol. In my simple coco brain, this refers to the back part of the house where we usually raise our animals and plant crops but what if even in front of the house was used too together with the back as raising ground for the chickens and putting and planting our plants too. Ugh! Watta nonsense thought! Never mind my scrambled brain guys, maybe this is just the effect of my unwell feeling right now lol.

Anyways, during our stay way back in the province, we also visited hubby's parents at their home. The oldies were so happy having us visiting them. I can tell how glad they are while talking with us. Hubby's father was a survivor of stroke and suffering now from Alzheimer's. But the good thing is he can still manage to walk by himself, though as not as fast like before he can still do things like feeding their chickens and dogs, watering their plants, and collecting dried tree branches to use in cooking and some are burned down together with the dried leaves after raking the yard in the morning. And while doing his task you can hear him mumbles and talking as if he is talking to someone.

While Nanay was still smart and very "maasikasuhin". Though she has rheumatism in both knees she can still do a lot of house chores like cooking dishes, cleaning the house, washing their clothes, raising and feeding chickens, and assisting my brother in law in taking care of his pigs in a pen. Cleaning around the surroundings of the house was tiresome and time-consuming as it was a bit wider and a lot of trees were around. Maybe that is why during our visit the back part of the house was messy with broken twigs and dried leaves.

They had chickens that lay their egg in an improvised nest just in front of the house, it was a big box that they put rugs on it as a nest for the chicken to settle down their eggs. Unfortunately, I had no photos taken during that time. I just had this picture of a one-legged hen. A mother to 3 chicks. According to Nanay, one of their dogs bite the right leg of the hen when she tried to eat some of the dog food, luckily it only bite the lower leg and because of that Nanay don't expect the hen to survive as of that time she's raising her little chicks. But luckily, upon the help of Nanay, the wound healed but the feet were already broken and detached from the limb. Nanay called the gen Lucky as it was also a fighter and survivor, and a good mother hen too.

In their backyard, you can see many plants. There are papaya, avocado tree, suha or pomelo, santol, that, banana, malunggay, and a lot more. The Kamias were full of fruits at that time that I picked a lot of them and brings some to our home to be used in cooking dishes. They have a coconut tree too with a lot of coco fruit.

Nanay cook us fish soup and encourage us to eat first before going back to our house where the wake was happening. The viand was delicious, it's perfect for the cold weather. After we eat and rest for some time while chatting Nanay told us to bring some coconut and vegetables with us. It happened that they are about to ride a jeepney to visit in the wake when we arrive earlier but we told them not to go early, they can come over on the last night of the wake.

Someday, we will build our home to that backyard and flourish the area with edible and ornamental plants. Hope and praying🙏.

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Sorry guys for this kind of writes up, I hope you still read it through though it's just a plain sharing of what I saw in hubby's parents in the backyard of their home.

The lead image was from Unsplash

A BIG THANK YOU for all of your support read cash family. To my generous Sponsors, commenters, likers, and upvoters more blessings to come to all of us.

I love you all🧡🧡🧡.

Article #64
Published: January 12, 2022
Time: 4:30 AM PH 
All images used owned by me 
     unless otherwise stated 

Love,

Kendy42🧡