It was a harvest season in Molave, and farmers flocked up to the mountain to join the harvest. Leo owned big farmlands, and every planting and harvest season, he hired them to do the labor. Due to the slopes and stiff cliffs, the use of pieces of machinery was difficult, so they remained using the manual method of farming. These farmers stayed in huts that Leo built around their house. Due to the distance from their homes, they stayed there for several days until they completed the task.
Though the labor was tiresome, it was always a happy day for everyone because it was the season where they gathered together for many days. During moonlit nights, they gathered outside the lawn to sing and chat over galloons of coconut wine and boiled bananas or sweet potatoes. At times, Issa baked cassava or rice cakes for them using her native steamers. They usually sang and danced through the nights as men took turns in strumming their guitars and women did the singing.
