Helping Hands For My Garden

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Have you done a spontaneous work like digging your garden? Last Saturday after taking my nap in the afternoon and drinking an instant coffee, I decided to pull the weeds outside the fence of my yard. There were rose moos or 10 o'clock flowers planted on it but they were no longer looking good as some of the neighbours kids walked on the flowers to climb on our fence and stole some ripe guava fruits. My 8 years old niece who lives 3 kms.from my house arrived when I was still drinking my coffee and told me she would help me. So we went outside the fence and started pulling the weeds. My small 9 and 11 years old nieces who lived in the back of my house with their parents, arrived in my front yard and saw what we were doing. There was always a competition between these 3 girls and so they helped pulling the weeds as well. There was a kind of "bayanihan" in that afternoon and so we were done faster as I have not expected and not even planned for. After having done the spontaneous work, I rewarded my nieces with 7Pesos, enough to buy them some favorite snacks in the kiosk nearby. My brothers always told me not to give money to their daughters when they came to help me because they might be expecting money when ask to do some small tasks at home. But hey, it's only a small amount and they have worked hard with me in my garden. Do you give money to your nieces or nephews when they help you doing some house or garden work? This afternoon, I will plant Lantana Camara instead of Rose Moos/ 10 o'clock flowers in that space we cleaned last Saturday.