My mom was startled. She thought she just got to see a person at our corn field. She didn't expect that somebody was there at that time. The person was not dad since dad was at another spot not so far from her.
We were the only ones at our farm that day: mom, dad, my sister, my brother, and myself. The person whom my mom just got to see was somebody else. In seconds, she sure didn't know who that person was, an adult, not a kid or any of the three of us her kids.
Only then, my mom got to being aware that the person at that corn field was not a real-human but a scarecrow. The locals use to name it as sipambiar-biari, literary means: someone who works to scare. That's it, even mom, unintentionally got scared for those seconds.
Most likely, my mom didn't know that my dad already put that scarecrow at our corn field. We were picking our chili pepper at that time not so far from our corn field. Somehow, mom turned and seeing the scarecrow whom she thought was a human, somebody else other than us all. She wondered who could it be?
Well, precisely, I can call that thing who look like a human being as a scaremonkey instead of a scarecrow. It was not intended to scare crows but monkeys.
My dad made it just that good, it did resemble a real human, especially from a distance. The top part of that scaremonkey was yellow, putting on a hat. The lower part was blue. It was intended that way, so the monkeys, who liked to come in a troop, could notice it, even from a distance.
Our farm in Sidompak is next to Simarjarunjung mountain with lot of trees and bushes. Even along the way to our farm, at those big trees along the road, you can easily see those monkeys on those branches.
Monkeys are usually energetic. During the day, they either playing around with their folks, or sometimes, I even notice that they can be fighting too. I know the different if they are playing happily or fighting over something who knows what, by the typical sound they express, and also by the way they move. It can be similar to human beings, I guess, can fight over things such as food or toys and what not. Â
