Machete Ball

It seems that everyone....well almost....carries a machete....like we would carry a pocket knife. Of course they usually carry it in a 'holster'. There is a seed pod (locals call it guaba) from a tree (Inga sp.) that has a delicious white filling surrounding each seed. Its hard to open and there is just a little bit of good stuff around each seed. You can't eat the seed or the fibrous white stuff....so you chew for a while and get the sweet nectar. Alot of work for a little flavor. Reminds me of sucking the nectar out of a honeysuckle flower back home. The seed pods are ripe for only a short time each year. When the seed pods dry out in the shell they are used as a 'shaker' type musical instrument that I've seen back in the states for sale at places like '10,000 Villages'. Anyway, the object is to spit the seed out and whack it with your machete....and not cut anyone's ear off.

Dad's husk landed on the photographer (Rowan). That's probably a game in itself. That's why the camera got off subject there for a bit. Ciao for Now, Forest