This is like a Part II of My Childhood Memories, as this is another memory of mine. This is about what we do and where we play.
When I was a child, we used to play at the farm. Yes, just a few walks away we are already at the farm. Have you seen the straw of rice? If not, you can now see it in the photos below.
We used to jump here like jumping in the foam of bed. As you can see in the photo, we also used it to hide there when we played hide and seek. Sometimes we even go inside the pile of straw, so when we get home we feel itchy in our whole body and full of sermons by our mother. Haha. Have you done that before, too? The straw comes from the ear of rice which releases from the thresher, it separates the straw from rice.
Me and my siblings also experienced getting the ear of rice(uhay). We used to get uhay back then and sell it to earn money. It is when there are still no reaper machines and there are just threshers. That is the time where people are the ones who harvest the rice.
Thresher
Thresher used to threshing rice that has been harvested by people. But now, because of the innovation of technologies, only the machine is the one that harvest and thresh. So now, no more ears of rice as it was washed out by the reaper machine.
Reaper Machine
Reaper machines are more high-tech than threshers. This one is now using to harvest the rice. We can't deny that the innovations makes people work easier and faster. It just that the disadvantage is some people who used to harvest(gumagapas) of rice has loss income every craft because of this machine. It became hard to them, especially to those people that this is the only source of income when time of harvesting.
This is the mud in the farm with water of course XD. We imagined it as a lake when we were kids, we ran through it until we were full of dirt XD. We used to catch tadpoles, fish, small shrimp, frog, snail and other creatures we would see and play with it. I remember when I caught catfish, it caused numbness in my whole hand(I don't know what you call the thing they used to hurt me XD). As in, I don't feel anything for some minutes but when the numbness has gone, I feel so much pain, it left a deep wound in my finger. But it's okay because I'm immune to pain. XD
Also, when I was a child we used to dip in irrigation. That time where you can still see the stone under the water. I want to take a photo of irrigation where we used to dip and play but not like the old times. It is full of dirt and the color of water is now dark, polluted by waste. I'm so disappointed to see it, how I missed the happy days. If I can turn back the clock, even just one time, I will go back because why not? I just want to experience those good old days.
How happy I am to be in a province. Our parents rarely buy toys for us because they can't as we are struggling financially. But it doesn't matter to us because me and my siblings have a lot to play.
Have you tried this too? Playing this as a toy? We used to play clothespins to make a robot or anything we wanted. We never demand from our parents because we are already on what we have. :) We also play leaves, as money XD. Some kinds of grass, we make it as a dishes, we used can as our equipment. Then we get a match to make a fire(yes, even when we were kids, we already played with fire but with caution). I can say that it is more enjoyable XD.
I became a Mom!
When I was a child, some of my playmates made me a mother as I'm older than them and making small house made of sacks. Haha. Sorry for the laugh. I just can't help it because reminiscing about those days made me happy. Ang sarap balik balikaaaan!!
Thank you for reading! :)
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Its really fun those days, we're fortunate to have experienced those unlike kids these days are more into gadgets and watching tv rather than playing like we did..