Rough Groove

Around Mindanao, 5 – Home in Tangub

We have a house and property in Tangub City, Misamis Occidental since my father is from there. Actually its a farm with fruit trees and remnants of a piggery and a chicken farm in my father’s attempts to do the negosyo side but unfortunately, it failed. Its only the couple of mango trees, a lone durian, ponkan (I didin’t even now that we have this one), chestnuts (castanas), rambutan, longkong, guava, guayabano, and other fruit trees and a herd of cows that’s left. However, as per one of the last wishes of my father, he wants it sold and currently, my mother is busy with the legalities.

Thus, when I was last in Mindanao, I made it a point to visit this place where some summer vacations were spent with my cousins hunting for wild birds and fruit bats, experiencing the bucolic life and assisting in preparing coconuts for copra.

The road to the farm is not exactly a good one. The constant rains that’s been keeping Mindanao for a few days when I was there soaked up the pathway and it became muddy, left. Right, a view of the small abode as well as the payag and unused chicken shelter.

Left, the bed with mosquito netting. The last time I used this one was more than many years ago in Cebu. Right, a calf running away from me.

Left, the mango trees found in the farm. It already started to bear fruit a few years ago. Right, a red and ripe rambutan ready for the picking.