Mad dogs, Englishmen, and Florida gardeners...

in the midday sun. That was today. We started out rejuvenating our pineapple patch at about 7:00 AM. I got stabbed three or four times and bled all over myself and the plants [cashier at Home Depot later offered first aid of alcohol and band-aids].

Yard guy and his wife, the lovely Juanita, showed up about 9:00. Remember the yucca that broke the pot? I asked yard guy to help me plant it [after he had mowed, weed eaten, sprayed for scale, treated for fire ants, and trimmed out the queen sago]. He did it all. He dug a suitable hole amongst slash pine roots in about three minutes. Turns out he hones his shovel--it's as sharp as a razor--and he cut through those pine roots like they didn't exist.

Yard guy was out of here by 11:00. And Ms. Fatma and I started re-potting and planting stuff without assistance or, apparently, any sort of plan. We ended up going to Home Depot FOUR blinking times for pots and such [on one of those times the short one bought a Fiskars bypass for less than $10.00]. The last time we went, Ms. Fatma said: "I wish we had false mustaches."

Also during the day, we managed to harvest the first three ripe mangos from one of our trees, pick a dozen or so figs, and eat a couple of handsful of Jamaican cherries.

But the heat index was 105 to 110 during most of this and we are exhausted.

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
Zone 10
27.0 N, 82.4 W

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