What the homestays keep

A few homestays in the valley keep a shelf of our pieces for their guests. The guest pays the homestay, the homestay keeps a share we agreed on the piece, and sends us the rest at the end of the month. The price to the guest is the price in the shed. We say so because people ask, and because it is the reason the shelves exist.

Written from the verandah, with a cup of chai going cold.