Injuries on the body are not suitable for heavy physical work, and with the addition of a hoe, it is not so urgent.

Anyway, it's still early in spring, and it will take a long time for corn and peanuts to ripen, so I can be lazy again after I have an excuse.

Today, I plan to add some utensils that were not made during the last pottery making, such as pottery cups and pottery buckets, etc., even if there are not many tools in a home, but everything is in the best state.

The pottery bowl I made last time was basically only one size, which was very monotonous, and this time I am going to add some sea bowls and pottery plates.

I actually thought about it last time, and I thought it would be done after a while, but until I remembered it later, I was busy with other things and put it on hold!

There are still about 100 catties of clay left over from last time at home, so there is no need to go far away to get the clay back, and it is not very convenient physically, but not long after the beginning, it rained lightly when the mud was being adjusted, and I had to hurriedly transfer the clay to the rain cloth and put it underneath.

Every day is always so twisty and bumpy!!

I have a house to live in shelter from the wind and rain, and now it's raining that it's hard for me, anyway, the food has been more abundant recently, so I don't worry much about food.

The rain has been falling, and it has not affected my enthusiasm for pottery, in the canopy continue to mix mud to make all kinds of pottery, everyone is safe, do not interfere with each other!

The craftsmanship is still there for a period of time, but the production today is more complicated than the pottery bowl, and only less than 20 are made in a whole day, except for mixing clay. Originally, I planned to burn it once and not do more, but the next day it rained again, forcing me to finish all the more than 100 catties of clay before I stopped, until there was a clay billet under the plastic canopy, and the rain outside still did not stop, well, I conceded defeat.....

As the days passed, every day I thought that the rain would stop tomorrow, but every time it was still raining the next day, sometimes big and sometimes small, it continued to rain for a whole week.

At first, I thought it didn't matter, just took advantage of this to rest for two days, and the small abacus did get my wish, but in the absence of entertainment activities, I felt very bored after five days of idle in the house except for the first two days, and I felt like I was going crazy if I didn't turn sunny again!

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As soon as the rain stopped, food problems followed, and the food that had been stored so hard was still surplus, but it was consumed in a week of inaction, and the progress of the next thing was delayed, so it was better not to rain.

I can only store food first, but the conditions are much worse, and now the temperature is lower, and it is more difficult to get food.

Fishing has really changed from a fishing tool to a recreational activity, and the average fish can only be caught five to ten catties every afternoon, and there is still a big fish that catches more than ten catties on average.

In the morning and in the morning, I spend more time catching crabs and digging leeches, and crabs are not limited to coconut crabs now, but all kinds of crabs, as long as they can be used as food.

In four days, a lot of food was collected, including nearly 40 catties of fish, not a single coconut crab, 10 crabs with big fists, two coconuts, more than 10 catties of leeches, plus a small amount of wild vegetables to strictly control the amount of life can live for more than ten days.

As time goes by, the Chinese New Year is less than a month away, and most of the seeds should start planting immediately after the New Year.

So in the next few days, I was undistracted, and the injuries on my body have been much better, at least it doesn't affect digging the ground, only squatting and getting up will have a certain pain.

I have to boast about the copper hoe here, I love it so much, in the past, the wooden shovel could only loosen up to one or twenty square meters of land a day, and it tired people half to death.

There are almost no stones on the land at the top of the mountain, and the speed is so fast that you can easily loosen seventy or eighty square meters of land in one day, and the efficiency is increased by four or five times!

Before I first got the copper ore, I only planned to open up half an acre of land, but with the help of a copper hoe, I directly opened up an acre of land, and it only took ten days, which was still not the result of full effort.

Of course, if it doesn't rain for two or three days, there should be nearly 200 square meters more.

After having an acre of land, there is no need to worry at all, although there are several kinds of seeds, but the scale is not large.

This season is completely less than one acre, even if I miscalculate, it is completely too late to temporarily open up the wasteland when the planting time is not enough!

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Another reason for the stop is the need to stock up on food again, which has been a big problem since I went to the island, and every few days it takes another three to five days to catch the ingredients, which makes people head big and there is really no other way.

In order to let the leeches on the beach and the crabs in the woods recuperate for a while, this time I was just going to go fishing at the beach, after all, the sea is so vast that I don't have to worry about the day when I will run out of fish......

In three days, I only caught about 30 catties of fish, which is a good result compared to the recent fishing harvest, but on the afternoon of the third day, I caught a big fish!

The strange thing is that my hook was thrown 20 meters away, but the fish did not pull on the spot after eating it, but continued to swim in the sea as if it was fine, until I was five meters away from me and realized that there was indeed a fish bite.

Its calmness made me seem a little uncalm, although the hook was relatively smooth, but the tug-of-war competition behind was not easy at all.

After all, it's not small, and it can almost fight a tie with me, and if it weren't for my superior physical strength, it might have escaped.

When I fished it ashore, I couldn't believe it when I recalled the excitement just now, and it took about 20 minutes before and after I finally pulled it to the shore, and I was sweating for the first time in a long time.

It was a mackerel, weighing about fifteen pounds, and it should be the number one big man I've ever been fishing.

Although its taste is not as good as grouper, tuna and other fish, it has an important function, its meat can be used in medicine, very nourishing, just suitable for a nutrient-deficient body like me!

Getting nearly ten days of food is a relief, and all kinds of pottery made half a month ago can be fired, and it will soon be spring in the blink of an eye, and things may be more at that time.

The thickness of the pottery bowl and pottery cup is much thinner than the previous pottery pot, almost half of it, so the time is shorter by an hour, and I don't know whether it should be reduced by this hour.

But the final result satisfied me, after the kiln was opened, only three or four were not cooked, six or seven cracked, and twenty or thirty pottery bowls and pottery cups were successful.

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On a whim, I planned to rebuild a fish pond, but the size of the pond was too small to meet the requirements, it was too far away from the location of fishing and fishing, and most importantly, it was too far from the house, and it took more than 20 minutes to catch a fish back and forth.

I think the new fish pond is in the woods at a distance of sixty or seventy meters above the bay where I fish, and it is only thirty or forty meters vertical from the sea, so it will be much easier to go to the sea to replenish water in the future.

I chose the location for a long time, walked through many places, and it took more than half a day to decide.

First of all, its terrain is flat, and in the woods in the summer, when the sun is fierce, the evaporation rate of water will be much slower, and it is not far from the location of the house, and it only takes six or seven minutes to go back and forth, which can be said to be very suitable, and the only inappropriate is a big project, which will be very troublesome!

Obviously, the re-dug fish pond can no longer be as small as the fish pond in the vegetable field, with a hoe I also have more confidence, ready to dig a long and wide two meters wide, one meter five deep big pit, a little more spacious planning is also to prevent the future with the improvement of living standards, fishing will be more.

I have to say that my vision is quite accurate, although the soil is relatively hard, there are not a few stones, and there is no extra time.

Even so, this is not an easy job, five or six cubic meters of soil if it used to be dug with a wooden shovel may take half a month, now there is a hoe and it took me a full five days, digging to the back once saw the hoe and had a headache!

Just digging out is far from the end of the matter, it can only mean that the most troublesome work is over, and the excavated soil and pit must be leveled and compacted to avoid water leakage as much as possible.

Then, like the previous fish pond, two layers of fat leaves and stones are laid at the bottom of the pit and around it to press it, so that the fish raised in it will not be able to turn up the soil and pollute the limited pool water, and the water quality will be much better.

When you think it's over, it's far from over, and the most physically demanding and desperate job has not yet begun, which is to go to the beach to fetch water!

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Even if the distance from the sea is only sixty or seventy meters, and the descent is hardly weight-bearing, it does not mean that it is an easy task.

The volume of five or six cubic meters means that at least five or six tons of water are needed, which is about 10,000 catties, and I can only transport 50 catties at a time!!

I spent the next two days going back and forth between the beach and the fishpond, and I was only halfway filled the fishpond, and I was going to stop this exhausting work, and now my whole body felt like it was going to fall apart.

In order to save a few buckets of water, it took two or three hours to dig two twenty or thirty-meter-long ditches diagonally on the hillside to extend into the fish pond.

When it rains, the rainwater goes straight into the fish pond, and I only need to replenish it with a few buckets of seawater every once in a while, and the salinity in it is almost close to the quality of the seawater.

The last step is to plant some 35 cm high branches around the pond and stack a layer of branches and leaves to stop the fish from escaping due to heavy rain, and the work of the fish pond is over.

Then I brought all the fish in the cave pond and let them play in a bigger place, which can be regarded as my compensation for them in the last days of their lives......

The location of the new fish pond makes it much easier for me to manage and cook fish in the future, and there are also cases in the summer when the fish pond is full due to luck.

In the past, when this situation was encountered, it could only be dried into dried fish, but now there is no need to worry at all, with its volume, I think it should be easy to hold three or five hundred catties of fish.

Of course, its official opening also marked the abandonment of the old fish pond, and now the vicinity of the cave is even more worthless, and I can completely stop running after the harvest of the crops in the vegetable field for a month or two.