Officially entered the busy stage that I had expected a long time ago, and all kinds of things were piled together, so that I didn't even know what to do first for a while.

And not much was done in a day, except for cooking, eating, and mowing the sheep, there were only six or seven hours left.

A lot of time is wasted on the sheep, and now how I wish I didn't have to mow the grass for the sheep every day, it's really an annoying job!

On the third day, I gave priority to transplanting the sweet potato seedlings into the ground, and one or two hundred sweet potato vines still looked quite a lot on the surface, barely feeling lush, especially when a rain came.

I am quite satisfied with the number of sweet potatoes, transplanted out of almost 150 square meters, and wait for half a month to plant seedlings can also grow a new section, and transplanting again can at least make the total area reach 200 square meters, barely half of last year!

I was also relieved to be able to do this, at least the hard work of watering every day during this period of drought was worth it.

The potatoes were planted in the next two days, and the original 100 catties of potatoes were left only about 70 catties now, but there was no big problem in planting them in 100 square meters of land.

Therefore, if everything goes well in the winter harvest, there will still be no big problem with this year's food, and only sweet potatoes will be reduced by more than one-third compared with last year, and the yield of other crops should not be too bad as long as they are replanted!

After another four days, peanuts and a new wave of herbal seeds were planted in the ground, and the work in the field came to an end for the time being.

Fortunately, if all crops such as sweet potatoes are planted in one fell swoop, almost half of the crops will be lost and it will be difficult to get them back!

With the last crops planted, it only takes another month or so to transplant the corn and greens seedlings.

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In a blink of an eye, it was June, not that I didn't know, but I found that one-third of the year had passed, and it seemed that nothing had been done in these more than 100 days, but the days were reverted back to last year's state!

Happily, it rained again yesterday and it seems that the weather is almost back to normal, and there is no longer a long drought after one rain, so I don't have to worry anymore.

Now that I think about it, it's a pity that two sheep and three chickens finally took a year or two to expand the scale to this extent, only to be affected by a drought, and it took half a year to a year to return to the pre-drought scale!

After a week or so of recovery, the woods were lush again, and most of the withered grass showed its tenacious vitality again, and the sheep were less annoyed than before.

It used to be a pleasant season of birds and flowers, and I should have been very happy without this drought, but it turned out to be ......

After taking care of the crops in the field and nothing else for the time being, today I want to go to the beach to see, I don't remember how long it was the last time I went to the beach to patrol the island, at least before the drought happened.

I haven't been around the island for about three months, so I don't know if anything new is happening!

Now I fantasize that it would be nice if there was a set of surveillance equipment on the island, with a camera installed in each direction, so that you could sit at home and see the ships passing by at sea, and light the wolf smoke in time.

I have a hunch that there should be a lot of ships passing by at sea, but I have basically missed them, and there is no way to solve this, which is a sad thing!

The location of the descent is where I go to the beach almost every day to fetch water, and now it has almost become a default thing, and every time the beginning and end are here, so there is nothing to find in the vicinity of a few hundred meters, and if there is one, I usually pick it up.

I haven't seen a lot of garbage on the beach for a long time, and I can't move faster, so I stop and stop along the way, but I don't find a single item of value.

It was already six o'clock in the afternoon when I came home after a lap, and today's harvest was surprisingly small, only a usable towel and a plastic bottle of toilet water that could be sprayed with water, which seemed to have no effect, I just picked it up out of curiosity.

In addition, I picked up a small sealed plastic jar, which was not bad for salt, and it has been a long time since I had a mediocre harvest like this one!

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Today's sky is a little strange, and I can't say what the strangeness is for a while, it seems that we can only determine by looking at the subsequent changes.

After the work in the field was done, I was going to strain the sixty or seventy catties of coarse salt boiled during the drought again, and I could clearly see that it was mixed with a lot of sand, and it was completely inedible.

The difference this time is that the repeated processing is more troublesome than the previous one-step process, which needs to be filtered with fresh water, and then removed potassium chloride and magnesium chloride by adding fresh water at different temperatures, and finally boiled and dried to make edible salt.

On the second day of boiling salt, the air pressure was a little abnormal, the breeze gradually rose, and more importantly, the signs in the sky were more obvious, accompanied by occasional rainfall, all of which were in line with the symptoms of the typhoon.

At first, it was just a breeze, but I am afraid that a strong wind will follow.

The typhoon is coming again, but this time my mentality is much calmer than in previous years, and now I feel like I am "barefoot", not at all like the panic when I wore shoes before!

In the past, every time there was a typhoon, I was either worried that the fish in the fish pond would run away or that the corn in the field would be blown down, but this time I was not worried at all, because the crops in the field have not yet germinated, and hundreds of green vegetables are about to grow, and its resistance to typhoons is much stronger than that of corn.

It's just that it came at a bad time, and if it had arrived more than a month earlier, maybe most of the crops in the field would have lived, and if it could have talked, I must ask why it came so late......

Although I am relatively unscrupulous now, I still have to deal with the typhoon, so I started to put all kinds of items that I put outside into the house, and filled the kitchen water tank.

The chickens and sheep also hurried to feed, especially the sheep, and threw more than ten greens into the sheepfold when the grass cut in a short period of time was not enough, and the greens that were close to growing up were already very large.

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When everything is ready, I can only close the door again and prepare for the arrival of the typhoon, which is already a bit normal after so many times.

While waiting for the typhoon to come, I also prepared the food for the two days in the kitchen, and cooked nearly ten cassava sticks alone, because the wind was so strong that it was impossible to light the fire every time the typhoon came.

This time the typhoon moved relatively slowly, but the wind was not small at all, and the maximum wind was only reached the next night, although the wind was roaring outside, but I knew that the wind was normal this time.

On the morning of the fourth day, I was finally able to get out of the room, and as expected, the house resisted perfectly, except for the fact that twenty or thirty tiles fell on the ground, and there was a rain leak in a few places, there was basically no problem.

Of course, there are inevitably cases of trees being blown off in the woods outside, but they are far from being in ruins, and only more than a dozen greens in the field have been destroyed.

The chickens and sheep are also fine, but the grass shed in the sheepfold has been blown away and collapsed, and several sheep have been made dirty.

There is no doubt that the shed needs to be rebuilt, but the damage is negligible compared to previous typhoons of this magnitude.

Fortunately, all kinds of crops have not yet germinated, if it were not under the normal conditions of this drought, the corn that grew to more than half a human height would have suffered considerable losses in this typhoon, and I have to say that this drought also indirectly helped me!

The location of the island is not a suitable crop for growing here, and whether it can be harvested or not can only be done by luck, the rainy season and drought are just an exception, but it is normal to experience two or three typhoons a year, and if you are unlucky, you may be blown down a piece, or even lose the grain in the end!

This situation is incomprehensible to me, because not only corn is here, but also the staple foods we usually eat do not seem to be suitable for growing here, including corn, wheat, rice, etc., which are very afraid of strong winds.

But despite all its drawbacks, I have no choice, even if I work hard to plant and finally harvest nothing, I admit that if I encounter a good year like last year, I will undoubtedly solve the food crisis for a long time.

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The cracks in the roof and the small number of falling tiles can be talked about later, there should be no more rain in the last three to five days, and the priority now is the problem of the sheepfold!

The health of the lambs must still be taken seriously, if they unfortunately die, the number of five adult sheep will be too small and become treasures, each of them is reluctant to kill!

In order not to have to remake the straw shed of the sheepfold after every typhoon, I decided to make a small house of bricks instead of the straw shed, and I felt troubled to rebuild the sheepshed after each strong typhoon.

What's more, just because the sheep didn't suffer the first two losses doesn't mean that they will survive in the future, and this unnecessary risk must be eliminated, because sheep are so important to me!

There were still a lot of bricks left over from the construction of the second room, which was more than enough to build a small house, and the number of tiles remained to be seen for the time being, but there were about two hundred.

Having the most important building materials, I began to prepare the timber needed for the small house in the sheepfold, which can also be called a tiled shed, after all, it is also a shed construction, and one side will be completely open.

A day later, more than a dozen pieces of arm-thick timber up to three meters long were collected to make beams, as well as a large number of logs of similar size, and work was ready to begin.

After all the materials were prepared, it was officially built, but when it was built, it was found that the ground in the sheepfold was too miserable, and the ground was trampled on a rainy day and was shaped when the weather was clear, and it did not look like there was a complete piece of ground.

The minimum requirement for bricklaying is to level the ground, so it takes time to level the ground before building a house, they can really find me a problem!

This process is not a good experience, the mud is mixed with the smell of sheep dung and sheep urine, but after a while, I will be smoked blind!