Re: Beautiful day

More help than you can imagine. She went with me to pick the lemons, talking pretty much the whole time, and jumped into the bag when I started to pick--only to jump out of the bag when I picked it up to go back in. She sat on the table [as Ms. Fatma says, $50 cat on a $60 table cloth] and watched as I sliced up the lemons.

Scaredy is much braver than she was at first, but we're still a patch from being one big happy family. She and Squinty are getting closer to being buddies but we're not there yet, and I suspect that's the key.

On Jan 21, 2006, at 3:58 PM, kmrsy@netzero.com wrote:

Just how helpful is Squinty? Made me think of that picture that was
going around of the kitten wearing a football helmet made from a lime
rind.


And Scaredy - has she come out yet?

Kitty

-- james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
here today. Temps in low 80s; zip humidity; no wind; partly cloudy.

Ms. Fatma is taking yet another test for her certification. I'm making,
with Squinty's help, a batch of lemon-ginger marmalade, and preparing
the last of this year's starfruit crop for the dehydrator. Yesterday, I
picked probably the last sugar apple of the year [it weighs slightly
more than a pound].

All of which makes me realize how incredibly busy this time of year can
be here. Most citrus is either ripe or getting that way. Black sapotes,
like their northern kin, persimmons, are ripening. And many other
fruit--mangos, avocados, lychees, papayas--are either blooming or
sending out bloom spikes and screaming "feed me, feed me!"

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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