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At home

Toad scat
櫸樹段木
Unidentified mammal scat in the yard
Praying mantis 寬腹螳螂 Hierodula bipapilla moving w/difficulty
Hierodula praying mantis, suffering from horsehair worms
naranjilla on the east side of the house; loves filtered shade
naranjilla, high defensive plant
naranjilla before ripening to bright orange
wild bananas in the neighborhood

Masonary fill

upstairs bedroom east wall
upstairs bedroom west wall
upstairs bedroom east wall
downstairs east wall
downstairs west wall

Plastering

upstairs bedroom east wall
upstairs bedroom west wall
downstairs west wall
downstairs east wall

Last class Spring 2019 Yonghe riverside farm 永和社大教學實驗農場

Making a hay box (basket)
Bamboo pod and readying the rocket stove
newly planted purple yam
newly planted purple yam
protection for purple yam vine
Mud rocket stove
Mud rocket stove

4 IBCs arrive

• Each IBC and integrated pallet is 100 cm wide, 120 cm deep and 115 cm tall.
• They can be stacked two high, but then the input of the lower tank is not available.
• The plastic tank is HDPE plastic and might be covered to protect from degradation from sunlight.
• The skeleton cage may not be stainless steel.

Rusty rebar

A second mason worker notices bulging spots in the old paint and scrapes away to expose shallow rusty rebar. The rebar is treated with anti-rust chemicals, recemented and repainted.

Philip's spine

Water levels on the Xindian river 新店溪 are low and we have burst our tubes so we get out before Guishan 龜山 and walk back through the town.

Painting

Jingan Edible Rain Garden getting some love
Jingan Edible Rain Garden getting some love
upstairs bedroom east wall
downstairs east wall
the leak recovered
alcove area recovered

At home

Kanee
Weiwei

Yonghe Community college night market

Yonghe Community College Corridor Cafe
Yonghe Community College Corridor Cafe

Jingan edible rain garden work session

Successful removal of banana stalk and a group picture
Banana pancake with coconut cream and fruit jam
Group photo with mud rocket stove

斜紋夜蛾 caterpillar
斜紋夜蛾 caterpillar

Sikanshui 四坎水 forest foraging walk 火燒樟山 (東四崁水山)

end of Guishan Rd 桂山路



Formosan jewelwing 白痣珈蟌 (bái zhì jiā cōng) Matrona cyanoptera, male?







Broad-leaf fern 雙扇蕨 (shuāng shàn jué) (also 鐵雨傘, 半把蕨, 破傘蕨) Dipteris conjugata


Wild tung tree flower
low growing fern in damp, low-light forest
wild gac vine 槭葉括樓 (cū yè kuò lóu) Trichosanthes laceribracteata
Common melastoma 野牡丹 (yě mǔ dān) Melastoma malabathricum
Fish mint 魚腥草 (yú xīng cǎo) Houttuynia cordata
Chinese box turtle, Yellow-margined box turtle 食蛇龜 (shì shé guī "snake-eating turtle") Cuora flavomarginata (Rare and valuable species)
Bluemink 紫花藿香薊 (zǐ huā huò xiāng jì) Ageratum houstonianum
shoes out to dry after days of rain

Morning dog walk

At home

taking down the scaffolding as work completes

5.5 k Xindian river 新店溪 trace from Jiajiuliao 加九寮 to Guishan 龜山

Judy floats on the Xindian river 新店溪
waterfall on the Xindian river 新店溪
two dives (video)
Xindian river 新店溪
Xindian river 新店溪
Xindian river 新店溪
Xindian river 新店溪
Xindian river 新店溪
5.5 k Xindian river 新店溪 trace from Jiajiuliao 加九寮 to Guishan 龜山
5.5 k Xindian river 新店溪 trace from Jiajiuliao 加九寮 to Guishan 龜山
Gecko Shack

Water levels on the Xindian river 新店溪 are low and we have burst our tubes so we get out before Guishan 龜山 and walk back through the town.