Mary noticed yesterday that the younger of our two Hawaiian papayas had four fruits on it! I had been meaning to fertilize the papayas and the pineapples, which I had scheduled for today. So I took this picture about a half hour before the plant got its long-delayed boost. You can’t see the fourth [...]
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This morning, Mary found THIS. On the plant!
Who is the culprit? Three guesses–THAT MISERABLE GOOD FOR NOTHING WRETCHED PIECE OF MOLDY LABRADOR FUR, ETHEL.
You wait 18 months. You baby the plant–you weed, you fertilize–and in one fell swoop, a damned Lab comes along and snatches your harvest out from underneath you. She LOVES pineapple–but I [...]
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It’s been a hair-raising two months trying to keep up the property, with me out of commission and Darío not able to work at all for a while, and now able to work only in a limited capacity. Mary has shouldered the burden. We have been looking for help, even temporary help, to fill in [...]
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