Pruning longan trees in our orchard and a simple lunch made from some of the home-grown vegetables.

Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. My family and I continue to enjoy a peaceful, simple life in the countryside. Today my wife, my brother-in-law, my mother-in-law and I have some chores in our family longan orchard. Right after my wife and I took our niece and autistic son to school, we headed straight back home. After completing the longan harvest, we have pruned some of the trees, but there are still certain areas of the longan orchard where the longan trees have not yet been pruned. So we planned to finish pruning all the longan trees today. Of course, it took a long time from morning until afternoon. The weather today has been quite hot since morning.

The atmosphere in our longan orchard in the morning.

Here are some examples of longan trees we have pruned, we need to thin out the longan tree branches to allow light penetration.

We stopped for about an hour and a half to have lunch. Even though my wife was exhausted, she insisted on preparing the meal herself. For today's lunch, she cooked something simple, incorporating some of the vegetables we grew ourselves, just like always. For this lunch, my wife made stir-fried minced chicken with holy basil over rice. She harvested the yardlong beans from the longan orchard, along with holy basil and chilies fresh from the home garden. And other vegetables are bought from a mobile grocery truck.

yardlong beans from the longan orchard.

holy basil and chilies fresh from the home garden.

I’m not sharing a recipe for this stir-fried minced chicken with holy basil, but I captured the atmosphere of my wife whipping it up. Let's take a look.

stir-fried minced chicken with holy basil

After finishing our lunch, we worked on pruning the longan trees until nearly 3 PM. We then hurried to pick up our autistic son from school and returned home. Although the pruning isn't done yet, my wife's brother and mother will continue the work tomorrow, as my wife and I have to go into downtown for some errands.
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