'Gardening' for Juan Or

This is actually an outdated post dating back to 27th August 2010.

It all started on one fine Friday late afternoon when Mommy was at the wet kitchen. Uh-oh, the kangkung (water convulus) plant had already grown into the house! It crept in through the gap under the kitchen door!

Mommy was startled to see such thing. The plant had grown about 1 meter into the house! Hearing Mommy's startled cry, Papa came to investigate and then offered to pull the plant away, but from the outside.

Because Papa went outside the house, Juan Or had the opportunity too to join in the 'fun'. After Papa pulled away the kangkung, the plant was all Juan Or's to play with.

So this boy had a fun time dragging the long stretch of kangkung to the front and to the back, over and over again, very much like those pull-along toys.

After that, he made a 'tour' round the house compound to check on those kangkungs that seems to have dominated all other veges that Mommy had grown.

And the 'tour' may sometimes require him to go over the drain, with legs wide open! Ooops, be careful not to miss your footing!

If the kangkungs were overgrown, it's time for Juan Or's special trimming!

Well, if necessary, Juan Or would use the baby shovel to do the digging. But what is there for him to dig!? Shouldn't he be digging away the roots of the weeds? Well, for him, digging with the baby shovel is just fun-fun and play-play! ^_^ Leave all the hard gardening job for Mommy to do, ya? :P

Juan Or the Young Gardener

About a month ago, Mommy was 'infected' with gardening sickness, so Mommy bought planter boxes, packets of black soil and vegetable seeds for this new hobby. In one particular planter box, Mommy sowed three ladies finger seeds and all sprouted and grew into young plants of about one feet in height. Unfortunately, due to very hot and sunny weather of certain days, one of the ladies finger plant couldn't stand the heat stress and so withered and died. Later on, when the weekend came, Mommy attended to the plants. Juan Or was around too, walking at the porch. So Mommy asked Juan Or to come and see Mommy's home-grown vegetable plants. Juan Or, as usual, with his itchy hands, touching and grabbing at whatever within his reach, wanted to grab the leave of one of the healthy ladies finger plants. Luckily Mommy managed to stop him in time. Then Mommy had an idea - why not get Juan Or to pull out that dead plant! So Mommy guided Juan Or in pulling out the dead plant. Of course for Juan Or, the dead plant was just another 'toy' for him, so he swang the dead plant around so much so the soil held by the roots flew everywhere! After that, Juan Or got himself busy by holding the dead plant and meddling with the things Grandma kept at an open rack in the porch. Here are some snapshots Mommy got of Juan Or acting like a gardener!

(After pulling out the dead plant, Juan Or went to touch Mommy's car with his soiled hands.)

("Hehehe....let's see what treasure can I find Grandma's pot?")

("Hmmmm.....maybe I can boil this dead plant as soup!")

("Ok...before I drop this dead plant into the pot, let me do some ritual dance first! Oo-la-la!")

("Oops....on second thoughts..... I think I better not make soup out of it.")

("Let's see what I can do with the dead plant.")

("I can be the knight in shining armour! Arm myself with a shield and presenting a flower to my lovely maiden!")

("Ooops.....cut the crap.....I'm no knight in shining armour! Ai-yah.....how to get rid of the dead plant?")

("Simple.....just dump it into Grandma's pot! That will do the trick! Easy-peasy!")