Good Judgment

Reading my journal from a decade and a half ago made me realise it's exactly fifteen years to the day that we got rid of the guy who was supposed to be looking after our little garden in KL - he was quite happy to give up the job, by the way - and hired Devan who'd been treating the house for termites but seemed keen to do whatever work came his way. I noted then that he seemed a reliable sort, and how right I was. The fact we've had him keeping an eye on the place for us for all these years, and doing a great job keeping the garden in order to boot, has considerably reduced our anxieties about owning a place that's so far away. A reminder, if we needed one, of just how reliant on others we are, no matter how independent we think ourselves.