The Diary Game: Cleaning Up My Environment and Havesting My Spice |Diary of 16/11/2024

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Warmest greetings Steemians friends and families. I feel very excited to share my diary as it went with you.

It was a fruitful day for me as I make the best of my time and had a tremendous harvest from my yard garden. It was Saturday and I got up not very early after observing a moment of prayer with my maker. I proceeded first to my surroundings.

I had noticed some unwanted elements of recent around my house. Such dislike creatures include snakes, millipedes and centipede. When I saw one green snake and tiny millipedes the penultimate week

I vowed to use yesterday and got rid of the grasses and weeds around me. It was sunny anyway as the season has just begun. I made sure I cut , cleared, cleaned all the grown grasses that can hide snakes and other unwanted creatures.

It was surprising seeing my little daughter of yesterday growing and joining me in the sanitation. Whole I was sweeping out the weeded weeds, she was busy using hoe to clear the other side. She actually held the camera to give me the snap shot of the photos I use for this diary.

Additionally, the thought to check on some spice crops I had planted came into my mind, And I visited my tumeric. It has already matured. I uprooted one root and it gave me a huge harvest. This has saved me the cost of buying it in the market as price for spices is very high now in the country.

I love having tumeric, ginger, garlic, cloves in my kitchen. Of all these spices, tumeric is the one I easily lay my hands on. Having known the culinary and medicinal use of tumeric, I never allow it scarce in and around me. The more reason I plant it at my backyard.

My harvested tumeric gave me so much joy as I will used it for flavour and colouring for my food while boiling some as tea to extract the antioxidant properties it contains to fight anti-radicals, support the immune system and improving digestive health. I will use the remaining to produce tumeric oil for my skin care. Tumeric health benefits are endless. You can try it especially as skin oil.

The evening time saw me cleaning my house interior and washing of cloths. I later took part of my uprooted turmeric to my opposite neighbour Eka Inyene. She was glad to receive from me, stressing the health benefits of the plant. During this time my phone had already went off which made me unable to take photos for the evening.

By 7 pm I prepared dinner for my family, made a post on the platform and went on other social media platforms checking update, then retired for the day.

It was a fulfilling day indeed as I kept my environs clean and clear, I could barely notice any tiny millipede unlike before the clean up. Above all seeing my tumeric came out with good yield gave me the most of the day. That output saved me a reasonable amount if I was to buy. Now I'm enjoying my tumeric tea including the oil I'm about to process with the remaining one. Thanks to my dairy and my wish for you to come back again another time.

All photos were taken from my phone!

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