Thursday 27 July 2017

Originally posted on Facebook - Changes to a name

In the field of work, some persons have professional names and personal names which they use as the occasion fits and as their world changes...

One example of the above occurs when a single female joins the world of work, she may be known by her maiden name and after marrying , she may:

Add her husband's name to her surname via a hyphen or
Drop her surname and use her husband's surname as hers.

Sometimes she may do neither and may continue to be known by her maiden name.

Given that I have a professional life and a personal life and I wish to develop both, I will having a professional name and a personal name...

Thus persons with whom I have attended school, will know me by my professional name and there are persons who will know me by my personal name...

I will be developing one more Facebook page, however given that there may not be much FB content in the personal page, I will leave the name of that page to be a mystery for now....

I will continue to post on this page as I enjoy most of what I read and share such as the weather, so there will be some info from time to time.

Take care...

Originally posted on Facebook - Learning Tip 2017- 07- 27 -002 - Emergency Funds

As mentioned in "Learning Tip 2017- 07- 27 -001", I have taken a few career breaks during my work life and used the time to develop either skills or knowledge. One of the cross overs which happened was the use of planning in gardening:

Close to a year before I was to take one of my career breaks, due to some changes in the home, some freeing up of space in the home and the garden, with the intention of providing food for the family or to support the home in some way, I started planting...

This skill, along with grace from God, a good yield from the cassava allowed me to package the extras from the harvest and store them in the "freezer" section of the refrigerator...
These packets of cassava, can be likened to emergency funds or emergency rations in several ways...

1 We purchase canned foods for our "emergency bag" for use or for holding during the wet season when hurricanes are expected... Some of these are used or some are held for the duration of the storm...

In using my planning skills, the packets of frozen cassava now form part of my emergency rations as they can be taken down and boiled should there be a need for food... One of the benefits of cooking cassava is that it can be warmed in water over and over and eaten as needed.

2 Knowing that there are different needs for "emergency funds" at times and at short notice, I may not be able to meet all of these needs, going forward I will be relying on the produce of a variety of plants to supplement my funds and form part of my emergency funding... There will be:

Cassava which, God willing can be harvested on a rotation basis. Also given the weather, it can be planted out of season and yield either branches in abundance or crops... Sometimes, there may not be any grass to place around the soil which would act as mulch. Then you may have to become resourceful and use the peels from the cassava around the new plants.

Melongene, which when planted near to the cassava, tends to yield produce after the cassava, is a good late producer.. This late yield may be due to the freeing up of the resources after the cassava has yielded as the banana peels are now applied in a concentrated manner to those plants....

Beans... This may be one of those plants, which can be used as one of the essential elements in a Joint Venture. Ventures may be entered into with persons with wire fences. These persons can rent out their fence for a share of the crop and or increase their share in the venture due to the provision of peels, time and care of the crop.. This year, due to some flux, I have several young bean plants as I "sprouted" the seeds, rather than rely on them to be carried forward. With one working fence, I am now in need of partners as I cannot see myself selling the seeds, knowing the possible produce which may be obtained....

Bodi - The yield on Bodi, may not be as quick or bountiful as the yield of beans, however it can provide a change in your menu and or your income as you may wish to sell the produce. The earnings may be reinvested or saved in the Gardening fund, rather than the Emergency Fund.

Ochro - The output on ochro can be bountiful and the produce can be sold as persons may not use all that they harvest.

Pimentos - These plants can be bountiful. One of the benefits of harvesting pimentos and using them is that the seeds can be replanted... This plant, also can be grown out of season, thus you can have a year round supply of these crops.

So if there are persons with fences, who are willing to enter into a Joint Venture, please check me out via FB post or message. Btw, my mother has pimento plants and she would be willing to enter into a Joint Venture....

Originally posted on Facebook: Learning Tip 2017 -07-27 - 001

Having taken career breaks at several times in my work life for various reasons and having used the break period to develop myself by either :

Learning about an industry or the performance of a company or

By learning through practice about some area of interest, I decided to share some information on the outcome of learning on one of the areas, which remained with me, which is gardening or growing crops for consumption. Here is some information on one of the areas of learning which remained with me or which I was able to grasp as a result of my skill and or knowledge in another area:

Skill development - This can take some time in some areas while in others we may achieve results almost without challenges or difficulty.

Also skill development may happen or not. This may also be due to known or unforeseen circumstances and/or understanding of the impact of same.

A good example of the above is growing tomatoes versus growing cassava...

One of the main differences in growing cassava and tomatoes is the use of water as a medium to stimulate growth...

Cassava, on top of the soil or in close proximity to the (ground) surface can absorb a fair amount of water, especially in the dry season.

One of the things which a person who lives in rocky places or a place with stones in the soil, who grows cassava can tell you is that it can be hard work when harvest time comes..

There are soils which can absorb the water and which will not yield the produce easily.

One of the ways to work with this type of soil is to place the cassava stalk on top of the earth, place dried bushes on top of it and to water it daily in the evening...

Of course this is a good fire prevention tool as the soil will be damp in the evening and you will get a good night's sleep after the exertion of lifting the buckets of water and carrying them to the area to be watered and from the coolness of the earth which surrounds the place of habitation.

Tomatoes, on the other hand, may need a traditional approach to master or to obtain crops and may require food for thought..