🏍️ The Great Rat Ride 🐀 Bamboo Projects 🎍 & Other Randomness
There has been a few rats lately that have taken a liking to the contents of our toilet and bar soap, so I've been trapping and relocating these poop-crazed rodents one-by-one.
Go And Be Free 🐀
I usually feel a bit pleased when I set a rat free, but this rat is a member of the gang that is addicted to bar soap and poop from the toilet. I don't know how they harvest turds, but I assume it involves SCUBA diving past the S-trap in the toilet, then traveling all the way to the septic tank in a sort of reverse Shawshank Redemption move.
Family Book Problems 📒
My wife rode with me to take the kids to school so she could attempt to create her first family book, something only available to land-owners. We stopped by the CPP office adjacent to the police station, and after 30 minutes the woman working determined she wouldn't accept my wife's documents because she didn't like the style of the province's style. The ruling party still hasn't standardized documents/forms across the country despite having 40+ years of time to do so.
Pov's Plant Projects 🪴
The other day we took a road trip and did some shopping, and now Pov is busy playing with all the plants she bought. I found Srey-Yuu nearby working on a post draft while listening to podcasts.
Bamboo Is Free, So Use It I Will 🎍
The forest across the river and also a few places on our land have wild bamboo, and although it's not as hearty as certain species grown for use in construction, it has held up pretty well in some quasi-steps I made about a month ago. For this reason I decided to use this bamboo to build walking path and border the landscaping.
Here are the steps I made a month ago, doing much better than I though they would. This little path was previous a butt-busting slope of slick clay, and it would send me comically slipping and sliding until I found myself on my arse at the bottom, but those days are gone.
Water Management 🌊
Our house is at the bottom of a hill, so rainfall tends to rush towards it, and this means some trenching is needed to divert this groundwater away from the foundation. Today I had to clear out the trench due to sediment buildup, and I didn't get a shoe sucked off my foot or even accidentally fling any mud in my face, so I'll take this small victory and ease out of this post. That's all for today my fellow Hivers, stay tuned....
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This is the first time that learn about rat that like to eat soap. I always thought that rats are into our food only.
I had never heard of until it happened to us, so I googled it and was surprised to see bar soap and human poop are all fair game for a rat dinner.
Aw man, I would scream like a little girl if I saw a wild rat, especially if it was in my toilet. I hate rats. I grew up in Alberta. There are no rats in Alberta.
The poop-addicted rats are the worst. In the USA, all rats and mice I've ever encountered flee or hide, but in Cambodia sometimes they jump at you. In Phnom Penh, I've even seen a rat go out of its way to attack a cat.
Ew. Yeah, you just can't trust a rat.
Oh God..I hate rats, in our house too many rats, they also eat our bath soap. I don't even know how to get rid of these animals anymore, the rats are really annoying
Yes, the path that you make using bamboo as a barrier at the edge or at the end so that it doesn't slide easily is very good, and a smart idea. Thank you for sharing with us my friend 👍🙏
Perhaps Cambodian and Indonesian rats have similar tastes I guess 😁. We keep a trap loaded every night with a little bit of peanut butter, and any rat I catch, I set free far away from our home. I am surprised how well the bamboo steps are holding up, I thought it would only survive a week. I think I will use this method to build steps down to the river from the cabin.
Kudos to you for not face planting, ass sliding or losing shoes. Your bamboo step solution is great. I'm looking forward to seeing Pov's plant pot ideas. I love the ones she's already posted about.
I am already liking the bamboo steps better than a staircase. I wanted to test it near the house first because we climb this slope countless times per day. It works so well that I think it will be the perfect way to descend from the cabin to the river. If we use river rocks the the whole way, it can be a pleasant barefoot experience.
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Seem like you have very busy days with doing all manner of stuff. I don't know if I could live like that but I admire your dedication, that's for sure!
I don't know if I can live like that either, just praying and hoping for the day when the cabin is ready for guests, and the income it will provide.
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Bamboo is an excellent alternative as a construction material, it will surely be very useful to apply improvements to your home, make paths more passable and beautify some areas. A big hello.
Hey, thanks for stopping by. I love bamboo as a construction material, but the ones from the forest never get very big in diameter. We are experimenting with some different species here on our land, some for construction and some for eating.
Excellent, I hope these experiments pay off. Greetings and happy Sunday to you and your family @justinparke.
I am very happy to read this post, for few reasons.