November Pictures

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Here are some pictures from November:

A visit to the area 12km from my village where most people farm their rice. Many residents have built huts near the fields and live here for 3-4 months of the year during plowing, planting, and harvesting times

The grassy flat area in the distance is rice 

A giant tree in the bush 

The view from the top of the hill near the rice fields

People from my village cutting rice in their fields

My host mom's garden near the river. She transplanted everything from her garden near the forage in village to her sandy garden area next to the river. The river will have enough water to garden until around April

My host mom's garden with the river in the background

Baobob trees fruiting in my village

My other host mom's garden (her friend is pictured)

My host mom watering her onions 

A cashew tree that my work partner planted. It has been chewed up by animals a little bit (he has not protected it with a fence yet)

A neighbor storing their peanut stalks (used for animal fodder during the dry season) up in a tree. Most people store their peanut stalks on top of a shade structure, but why build a new structure when you have a perfectly good tree?

A donkey guards the bread oven

My sweetsop tree (planted by my anciens) beginning to lose its leaves for the dry season

My first self-made item of clothing

Sunset in village

I replaced the broken rice sack that had been occupying this chair with fabric. It is really comfortable but has already started to rip. I am brainstorming how to sew the fabric in a different configuration so that version 2 will be stronger

T-Dogg's new album Teach me how to Graft drops soon. Don't miss it

My host sister braided my hair when she visited from Kedougou

A large praying mantis hanging onto a mosquito net at the Kedougou transit house

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