Out to the Fields with Matti

A neighbor of ours who's close to my mother confronted us about lending their 22 coconut trees for Php 10,000 or approximately 316 Hive. We are saving money because we will be traveling soon but since we love "buko juice" and we felt pity for the old lady whose only child is set to go for maritime training, we decided to take it.

It has been over a week since the day we handed the money to her and she was also following up on us as to when we will go check the trees. It was only yesterday that we went.

So in this video, we walked 3,000+ steps towards the area where the coconut trees were, we passed by ricefields, streams, irrigation canals, some cows, and more ricefields to get to the location.

The owner has more coconut trees and they were also lent to somebody else. According to her, it's been years since the lender had been harvesting the coconuts for copra production. As for us, we have no plans of doing that but the owner insisted that they can do the work for us instead and we will just give them part of the earnings. I guess that's a good deal. I was actually only after the buko juice and the desserts we can make from the coconuts!

But the great thing about this was that we were able to help the couple with their immediate need. It's easy to ask to lend money but I always have doubts of the intent to pay so it is much better that something is being guaranteed rather than just lending them money because it's hard to earn today. Plus, I don't work now since I became a mother so I only earn from my online hustles.

Anyway, it was a fun morning, I had a good walk, the wind was fresh, I enjoyed taking photos of nature, I have never been to this part of our barangay so it was nice to be able to explore it. I know it won't be the first time that we will visit this place, there will be more times in the near future, in fact, as of this writing, I want to go and get some fresh buko!

Enjoy the video guys!