Coffee anyone ?

[Niele da Kine]

If it is going at the end of a sitting area that you will be using a lot, got with the rose. Fruit attracts bugs and flies as it ripens and drops. Dropping fruit requires raking it and picking it up before it rots. Sitting area is for relaxing and enjoying, not for realizing you forgot to put on big repellant and need to go get the rake and trash can! LOL Fruit and veggies are better at a slight distance from the patio.

The satellite dish trellis is gonna be under a huge avocado tree so fruit will probably be falling on it. Probably no need to add more.

This is from last year, I've cleared some of this out already. This area was carpeted at one time and there's about two dozen or more remains of small mini-fridges. Probably the previous owners worked at one of the big resort hotels and got a lot of stuff when the resort renovated and redecorated.

The tree drops a lot of them, although this picture was from sorta peak season. Avos fall from around now until next spring so there will be a lot of guacamole.

Not sure what variety they are, Hawaii has hundreds of varieties of avo. These are lovely creamy ones, though, so we never have too many avocados since lots of folks will help us eat them.

There's enough fruit up there and you're right about the rose being nicer. Not sure where I'm gonna find a Zepherine Drouhin, though. I'd mail order one, but apparently, it's taking a lot longer to get things sent in the mail and we're in Hawaii where it already takes a long time to get things. Be a bummer to find a dead dried up plant instead of a happy rosebush from an expensive mainland import.

The coconut wireless doesn't work very well in this Time of Covid. Usually chatting amongst friends would turn up someone who knows someone who has one.

 

[Niele da Kine]

New baby bunnies!

There's eleven of them in there, not sure if she's gonna be able to feed them all but she's doing well so far. They were born the night before last so they're still pretty small and new.

These are English angoras so they are kinda like micro-sheep. Once they're about six months old they will start getting sheared every four months to provide 'wool' for yarn. They don't seem to mind their haircuts, though, they get happy and bouncy afterwards.

 

[Baymule]

@Niele da Kine that is a beautiful bunch of avocados! They grow in the Rio Grande Valley, in Texas, along the Mexican border in deep south Texas. They don't grow in northeast Texas LOL. Lucky you to have such a lovely, productive tree!

 

[Baymule]

New baby bunnies!

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There's eleven of them in there, not sure if she's gonna be able to feed them all but she's doing well so far. They were born the night before last so they're still pretty small and new.

These are English angoras so they are kinda like micro-sheep. Once they're about six months old they will start getting sheared every four months to provide 'wool' for yarn. They don't seem to mind their haircuts, though, they get happy and bouncy afterwards.

Cute bunnies! Angora is so soft! Do you spin the wool? And what do you do with it?

 

[promiseacres]

Yum! Advocados.
Coffee is on. Got 12 pints of tomato sauce. Salsa, pickled jalapeños and the girls picked another 5 gal bucket of bell peppers yesterday. Co op and get those rabbit cages clean. Might leave the potatoes until next week.
Any good camp meal suggestions? Can't decide our supper on Saturday.... doing burgers and hotdogs already. Hmm maybe something with peppers.

 

[Mini Horses]

Cool but such heavy cloud! A front from the NW (?) and Sally on the way with rains late day & into tomorrow. Looks like it could pop any minute. Glad I got what I did yesterday completed. Now I hope winds don't throw the pile of stuff from burn pile. Heavy trimmed a holly & a plum tree. Don't want to chase those limbs around!

Guess it's an inside day or two for now.

 

[Bruce]

Yum! Advocados.

Yep, if you can get them ripe rather than picked way too green/hard so they don't get damaged in transport. @Niele da Kine has it good in that respect!

 

[Niele da Kine]

@Niele da Kine that is a beautiful bunch of avocados! They grow in the Rio Grande Valley, in Texas, along the Mexican border in deep south Texas. They don't grow in northeast Texas LOL. Lucky you to have such a lovely, productive tree!

We didn't plant the tree and the previous owner of the property didn't plant it, so it's likely over forty years old? It's huge in any case. We bought the property for the almost finished big workshop up by the avocado tree, the tree and the 2/1 extreme fixer upper are just kinda bonuses. Although as tasty as those avos are, buying the property for just the tree would almost be worth it.

 

[Niele da Kine]

Cute bunnies! Angora is so soft! Do you spin the wool? And what do you do with it?

The herd of angoras here at Hillside Farm Hawaii provide fiber for Hula Bunny yarn which is sold at a small shop here in town. It's a two ply fingering weight insanely soft yarn made of 40% English angora, 40% Merino sheep's wool and 20% silk. A small mom-n-pop woolen mill in Pennsylvania spins it for me since we don't have any woolen mills in Hawaii. I can spin it, but then it would take too long and I'd never have enough for the shop. I'd also have to charge more for it because of the time involved. Folks are also more used to commercially spun yarns and my home spun is a bit more 'rustic' than they're used to.

The picture of the silvery gray yarn is 'Moonlit Dance' and it's made with fiber from the black bunnies. There isn't any dye in Hula Bunny yarn so the color of the bunny makes the color of the yarn. There's also a tawny 'Beach Bunny' color from the tortoiseshell, chocolates and fawn colored bunnies. 'Coconut Dream' is a creamy white color from the albino bunnies' fiber. I may separate the chocolates from the torts/fawns and make a 'Mocha Bunny' color, although getting enough fiber for three colors is pretty labor intensive already. The mill needs six pounds of fiber to do a run of yarn and a bunny provides about four to six ounces each haircut and they get about three haircuts a year.

 

[Niele da Kine]

Yum! Advocados.
Coffee is on. Got 12 pints of tomato sauce. Salsa, pickled jalapeños and the girls picked another 5 gal bucket of bell peppers yesterday. Co op and get those rabbit cages clean. Might leave the potatoes until next week.
Any good camp meal suggestions? Can't decide our supper on Saturday.... doing burgers and hotdogs already. Hmm maybe something with peppers.

Maybe some chili with the tomatoes and green peppers? (Green peppers can go in chili?) That could either be chili or sloppy joes, depending on how folks wanted to eat it?