Thediarygame for 17th April, 2024:The Diary Game #36: Share your day with us!

Each day comes with its activities and these days, I am chocked up with much more activities than before.

One thing is certain, taking each day at a time helps me to cope with these activities.

Included in my activities for today is the assistance I gave to a newbie who already signed up but needed to post her introduction post, then training my clients who came out for workout, preparing a delicious rice with vegetable source, assisting with the planting of yam, replanting my tomatoes and watching champions league game between Manchester city and Real Madrid and between Bayern Munich and Arsenal.

Assisting A Newbie

I woke up very early as usual or will I say in the middle of the night as my body is accustomed to, I then did my work here on the blog. This included checking all the publications in my community to see if all had been checked and reviewed, then I did my personal morning worship before getting ready for workout. By then, my clients, who just signed up chatted me up that she will be coming with her introduction post opening image paper so that I can help her make the write up bolder since I told her that the one she had was not clear enough.

After the family had their morning worship, I quickly called on the bike man that usually convey me to the workout location to come. He came immediately it was 6:15 to pick me. On getting there, the newbie brought out the introduction post she had written to show me, then the plain paper where she wants to write her username on. Since @alli001 was there for the workout already, I assigned him to assist us make the writing bolder on that plain paper

That's what he is doing on the image above.

Then, since she needed to add some more information on what she had written as her introduction post, I told her to make it more detailed. I told her to to add information about her immediate family, her occupation, then conclusion and how to upload images which she did. When it was time for us to start the workout, we suspended posting that introduction post until we were done, as soon as we finished the workout, we took the pictures along with a client and posted it. She was very happy and excited. She asked me what next she needed to do. Well, I told her to wait until her introduction is posted. However, I told her to work on her diary game for that day so that as soon as she is approved, she can post it. I had to explain to her all she needed to do on that.

Her introduction post was actually approved to that same day, then I alerted her and asked her to post that diary game for that day. I put her through via WhatsApp and she was successful in doing that.

Training my clients

As a fitness instructor, I make sure I am there early enough even before my clients arrive. But today, I was a bit late as one of my clients who happened to be the newbie about came before I arrived. I quickly went to get the few equipments we needed to use for the training, that is our dumbbell and our step board. Since there wasn't power supply in my house,no went out with my phone and other phones to charge there because there is light most times there and there are charging points there. I quickly plugged them there before the workout proper

	our dumbbell and step boards
	the things I plugged

When more trainees arrived, I told them to take their position after jogging round the field for us to begin. More of the details of this exercise will be included in my weekly update of my StayFit program which I usually post every Sunday. Hope you will find it interesting to read.

Being a fitness trainer is really wonderful. Being able to help people stay fit, one thing I never dreamed of becoming but looks at it now, I have taken advantage of the opportunity that was presented before me. There is nothing impossible with the Almighty. He can use us in any capacity if we are determined. Below are just 2 of the workout pictures that I captured during the moment

Preparing Vegetable source for white rice as breakfast

On getting home, I had to prepare breakfast. I told my son to boil white rice, my daughter to cut onions, pound pepper and crayfish, while I went into my garden to get pumpkin leaves. I washed the leaves outside as our tank was opened already. I then cut the leaves and prepared that delicious source with fresh tomatoes that I bought on my way back, vegetable oil, pepper, onions, salt, seasoning cubes, garlic gloves and that vegetable. I finished even before the rice was ready and we all ate our breakfast when it was ready. The pictures are here below

I then freshened up, washed my workout outfit for that day and then waited for our friend who is an expert on agriculture to come back as that was the agreed day for the yams to be planted in bags.

Yam planting and tomatoes transplanting

By 3 pm, the man that had been putting us through on how to plant yams in bags arrived as scheduled. We swung into action immediately. First, he told my husband to bore holes on those bags that we had gifted sands. Then, dig holes where the bags will be kept for balancing of the bags on the ground. The reason is that when rain starts being heavy, the ground will be soft and the bags might tilt. So, balancing them now is very important.

While he was doing that, I was instructed to get the yams out and start cutting them off a little from the bottom. I asked why do they need to be cut. He told me that he will give me the answer by next week Monday. In my own, I think it is so that they am could decay easily and new ones will grow quicker and bigger. But I am awaiting his professional advice.

	the yams after cutting them
	my husband perforating the bags

He later instructed that we add more sands to those bags because the yam will need to have more rooms for growth, or better still, we change to bags to cement bags which will consume less sane and give more balance to the tubers. The yams will eventually find it's way under ground where they are kept. That was when my husband started turning all those bags to the cement bags

	the shallow holes where the bags were kept to avoid tilting
	my husband trying to upturn the bags and fill in the cement bags

The yams were being planted as the sands are being transferred. My role was to place the yams on the bags while the man plants them properly.

When that was done, I was asked to bring those tomatoes that I had earlier nursed for transplanting. I was first told to pour enough water inside where they were being nursed to avoid much stress on them.

When they absorbed the water, we started planning the tomato nurseries inside the same yam bags. We planted two in one bag on those bags that are placed where there will be enough sunlight.

	the tomato nurseries
	during transplanting, the two I uprooted
	I am going to transplant them
	after transplanting

I was told to water them because they will need water now to be able to settle calmly in those bags I learned something new here. I transplanted my pawpaw nurseries the other day without first watering them. They were really stressed as most of their roots even broke.

Trust me, I was asking questions upon questions as we were planting. I asked if I could stake 4 bags of yam with 1 stick but he said no. That it is advisable to stake 2 at a time to allow the yams more freedom to grow. Then that I am free to plant other things on the bare ground in-between the bags if I want. Something like groundnuts or other cover crops.

He also advised me to nurse other tomatoes after one month so that I can plant them in batches and I will always have tomatoes if I do so because these ones will be due in the next 3 or 4 months, as I am harvesting them, then those ones will replace them.

He also said that I can plant okra but that I should buy those ones that stays longer before they start fruiting because they will give me more yields than those other ones that doesn't stay long to fruit.

We were on this planting till it was late, close to 7:25pm. My husband wanted to go and watch champions League at the viewing center. I decided to go with him so that I can stay awake and post the article I wanted to post even including this diary game. But I was only able to post that article and I watched the premier League between Manchester city and Real Madrid and between Bayern Munich and Arsenal.

	the televisions at the viewing center

The game ended in penalties shootout before the winner could be decided.

It was a wonderful night out. We boarded a bike after the match. It was already past 10pm and the security men had to stop us on our way back. But because they know us too well and where we were going to, they didn't even question us but just allowed us cross. My kids were asleep when we got home. We retired for the day.

The diary game of a woman like me is always filled with activities all day long. These activities make me fill fulfilled at the end of each day. I am glad to have shared the activities for this day with you all. Thank you all for reading through, see you in another diary game of mine!

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