If you have not experienced the village life and after going through some of the posts am sure you will have some understanding of how the village life is and how the people manage their day to day life.
Since most of the villagers depend on agriculture and the produce, they put all out efforts to see that the yield comes good. At times due to natural calamities they suffer losing the crops etc. Villagers keep seedlings of each of the products they grow so that in the next season they can use these select seeds. They select these seeds taking out the good quality from the produce. Sometimes they need to go to nearby towns and buy good quality or hybrid quality.
In summer season in the afternoon mostly people stay in the houses, however since they need to work, they try to find out something or other. I remember peeling of ground nuts.. In each house 10 to 15 people sit together and in front of them you will find a heap of dried peanuts. Since summer holidays in schools, we small kids go and join the other members – since we are karanam by caste when we go, they respect and give a proper seat. The system is that you need to peel the groundnuts and better seeds you need to keep one side and weak seeds you need to keep another side. While peeling if they broke they can’t use them for seedling hence those are also kept in the weaker side. Some times we intentionally break the good seed so that they will keep them in the weaker side of the seeds. We sit two to three hours at one go and at the end of each sesion the owner of the peanuts or their assistant go around check each other plates both good peanut seed and weak seeds. Sometimes good ones are also kept in the weak side intentionally or unintentionally. they check both good ones and bad ones – even if there are some bad ones in the good ones, they take out and put in the bad ones. Whatever quantity of weak seeds are there, you can take away with you – that is the remuneration in lieu of the work you did. While peeling we also put some in the mouth.
This is how we also used to spend out summer vacations time.