Unli Buko! (Post #GlendaPH Update)

How are you, guys, during and after #GlendaPH?

We are just too glad #GlendaPH spared our house from its wrath & fury! I know a lot homes were not as lucky. Some lives have been lost too and I am one with their famiy in sympathy.

Our mini-farm, however, is a mess post-Glenda. Smaller vegetables like pechay, sitao, mustasa, and sili were all destroyed. Most of the eggplants, however, and the papaya trees survived. We were also lucky that the three coconut trees surrounding our house did not fall on us! My Dad had a sleepless night when #GlendaPH came for fear that the nearest coconut tree would fall on us due to the strong winds (and ‘strong’ is an understatement here)!

They (the coconut trees!), did, however, give us their fruits without us exerting too much effort in harvesting them (it is always a challenge to think of ways to harvest from our coconut trees!) As you can see from the photo below, #GlendaPH gave us about a hundred  or so coconuts — whether macapuno (we have one macapuno tree), niyog or matured coconuts perfect for coconut milk (Bicol Express, here it comes!), or young coconuts perfect for buko juice which I now drink with my every meal.

Sometimes, nature has its way of telling us that there is something good that can come out of the worst situation.

I’d like to see it that way.