Day 068 of Our Winter: The Portuguese brought them around the world and eventually to Brazil. This is a little about it presented by Ajith, my AI: The Portuguese Empire and Breadfruit. There was a breadfruit tree near the edge of the property. It was still producing breadfruit but it was rather sickly. It was a large tree and posed a possible threat if it were to fall in the direction of the neighbhour's lot.
So today, finally, a tree cutter guy came. He climbed up the tree to cut from the top down. He had only a hatchet and a chainsaw. He was barefoot and climbed around without a harness or even a belt. It took a couple of hours because while here we did a few other tree jobs. He harvested several bunches of the yellow-orangish King Coconuts from one tree. He also cut the 'jambo' tree by the well way back. We paid him around $22 which included a hefty tip. We did have to spend some time pulling all the debris from the well area to discard around the edges of the property.
At home, it takes decades for a tree to fully mature. In the tropics growth occurs at a quicker rate. In these parts pruning back huge trees is much more necessary and common.
The weather started off a lot cooler today. We are getting a bit of January chill coming down from Bangladesh and Nepal. The high temperature today barely got to 26C. The forecast shows it'll be around 22C tonight. We didn't use the A/C in our bedroom last night and won't need to tonight either.
