31/10/2025
Every monsoon the river brings for us a lot of wood. After it swells, then sinks, we're always looking out for what we can use, some to burn, some to build.
Last December, we found half burried next to the river, a log that would make the perfect counter top, to build around the oven.
A plan was made. When Govind and Monu came for a couple of days in January, thomas, minami, robin, richelyn, Neha and harsh*t all went back to where the log was, dug it out and rolled it into the river. Almost 6 feet long and a feet in diameter, it weighed many stones!
We floated the log downstream and rolled it out into the river bank just outside our land. They it dried for a couple of months until Govind visited again in May, with Sanju, Ganesh, Harsh*t and Neha lent a hand, using a nicely knotted up hammock as a rope and the six of us carried it up to where it now waits to be transformed, into a counter next to the oven.
