It is harvest time at Legacy school in Chiang Mai. The rice is ripe and ready. Professor Ong-Art, who runs an organic farm near our rice fields told us we need to harvest NOW because our rice is so heavy it will begin to break the stalks!
So, classes are cancelled and all the teachers and students have headed for the fields to bring in the harvest before the King’s Birthday holiday this Thursday, December 5.
T. Leon Sexton
Tugay helps load truck
Ne Blu Too helps harvest
Legacy Farm pickup loaded with harvested rice
Legacy Teacher Meagan Garrant bringing in the harvest
Legacy students harvest the rice with Kay U in foreground
Fred the scarecrow overlooks the harvest
Ne Blu Too joins in the harvest
Moe Paley harvesting ripe rice
Stacking the rice for threshing
Moe Paley displays cut sheaf
Zac Coish (in red shirt) and team ready to begin harvest
Ready to harvest
Black rice ripening
Three acres of rice ready to harvest
Harvesters hard at work
Rice sheaves ready to pick up
“Bringing in the sheaves”
(L to R) Tyler Kincade, Seng Aung and Zac Coish harvesting rice
Tyler (L) and Seng Aung harvesting
Tyler (L) and Seng Aung harvesting
Tyler (L) and Seng Aung harvesting
Seng Aung binds the sheaves
Hom Mali rice ready to harvest
Seng Aung binding sheaves
Tyler, Seng Aung and Zac inspect rice to see if it is ready to harvest
Dear Brethren and Fellow Laborers, Please continue your prayers! We received with heavy heart the results of Wednesday’s CT scan. Unfortunately the shunt is releasing too much fluid which the doctors think is causing some atrophy. It also showed an increase in the fluid build-up in the meninges near the skull. They believe the body/brain is trying to produce more fluid in another area to compensate. Because of the fluid near the skull, they will need to make a small incision and drill a tiny hole to release that fluid…
For eight months now the ah-janns (teachers) and students have been working hard at revamping the “Teacher’s Garden”. The beautifully transformed garden located at the back of Legacy school grounds has been a joy to all of us here that walk it everyday. The pictures below are taken in succession as we worked. Below is a pastel drawing I drew of what we thought the garden should look like when it was completed.