Scotiabank Be money

Scotiabank has managed to launch a new website for the Be Money account.

The problem is I can't login in after I registered. Then the feedback form promises a response in 48 hours if my feedback requires a response.

Suppose it isn't meant to be up yet.

The other thing that is slightly annoying me about this better account- 3% and half the fee I am currently paying as a Scotiamax customer is that I can't book an appointment to switch account type.

Shall go line up one day next week at any rate before the next time the fee is due which is on the ... end of the month.

OK so I have a month.

Meanwhile the GAM funds are doing OK.

Home mortgage remains the highest TT Dollar Money market available.

Pictures or no pictures

I am debating whether I should include pictures in this blog.
I am not really a picture person. I never travel with a camera, I buy postcards and leave the picture taking to persons far more talented than I like Chutney Garden or Bookman.

But I do have some OK pics to illustrate the key to the small garden for food growing.

Uhm ............

And yes Angie I did kill the fish, I always kill and clean the fish and crabs.

Life

Even though I had no water for a few days I would still have to say I have a good life.

I leave and return to my home in daylight.
Tonight I am having fresh fish I caught and killed myself.
And for desert there is sweet sugar cane.

And I still dare to hope....

The Rich List

I can't remember who had this on their blog but I visited the Rich List over the weekend.

This is the same weekend I had no water.

Turns out my household is in the "TOP 0.76% richest people in the world!"

Just proves Money can't buy you many things including a reliable supply of water.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I remember saying that my second degree would be some sort of biological field in form 3.

Why my second degree? Because even then I realised that biology doesn't really make money, at least not in this country.

Turns out my first degree was destined to be Maths. And I do have a high aptitude the type of work I do now.

But this isn't what I want/wanted to be when I grow/grew up.

I still want to go ECIAF and do an internship at Iworkama.

One day....

Fourteen dreams

I have mahogany seedlings!

The Agricultural Expo was OK. Very spread out. But not enough practical demonstrations.

The ADB loan rate is 6%. Not bad.

Response to Liz, Letter of Day April 12

No offence but has Lisette ever tried to grow anything.

I have seen numerous letters to the editor with suggestions as to how to grow more food. But all the letters show is that most people have not a clue as to how to grow anything, including myself.

I work in the "knowledge" economy. My deliverables are generally pieces of paper filled with flow diagrams and a bit of code here and there. They are all positively intangible and useless.

My best achievement is that I have four sickiay and ten baby padoo plants around the house. But there is much I do not know.

How to taste the acidity of the soil.
Where the sun moves over the year.
How to create a breadfruit sucker.

The fact is that planting and rearing animals are skills.
Important as, if not more so than any in the "knowledge" economy.
But we discount agriculture as a subject...

Until we realise how dangerous it is that most of us do not know how to grow or recognise food, we are doomed.

Since 1979

This is the third week of rain and so the citrus has started to flower again. This means that we will likely have a bad crop next year.
Last time there was this much rain in April was in 1979.

I need to learn how to create breadfruit suckers.

Can't eat Money

That's a fact. Food is something that must be nurtured and grown.

Actually looking at the Cocrico (Chachalaca) I will say that there is no reason we cannot breed and eat this pheasant.

It's just like the agouti.

If we spent any time domesticating our indigenous species we would have protein sources that are far more suitable and economical than those we do now.

As it is I must plant some cassava, not that I am for hybrids but M Mex will give me a harvest every six months which can't really be beat.

One day we will realise that we can feed ourselves but we must change our diet and eat what we can grow and sustain.

My former employers can eat concrete since they are so fond of it and don't see the need to rehabilitate land after surface quarrying.

Local food

The decision to eat local must begin in the grocery and market.
It must be a deciding factor in what you buy.

Of the non-local, stuff I will still buy

Soya oil - although I do use coconut as well.
Onion
Garlic

A local food day

Breakfast - Hong Wing Coffee
Nestle Milk
Sugar

Lunch - Dasheen
Pork
String Beans
Watermelon

Snack - Otnick orange
Sucking cane

Dinner - Bay leaf tea - cold
Dasheen
Pigeon Peas
Local lettuce

Dessert - Flavourite sandwich bar.

For Food Sustainablility

I hereby give up carrots and irish potatoes for the rest of the month, for starters.

300 seeds planted and counting.

A productive weekend

Overall I would have to say that these have been a few very productive weekends. I managed to plant 30 mahogany seeds for planting in June.
And got 8 crocus bags of soil for the rest.
Oh must go down and see if there are more seeds on Independence Square on Friday.
Now we need some manure.

One day I will give up the city job and become a full time farmer.