The work is never done and there isn’t enough time in the day.  There isn’t enough time to write blog posts either!  Okay, so what’s happening…well, I will start off with my usual joviality.  Since we have been so busy on the farm, I haven’t kept up with harvesting fruits and so the place is teeming with blackbirds and jays.  They’ve been stealing all the starfruit and peach palm.  They are not leaving a single one for us:

Munchkin: “This is daylight robbery.  The blackbirds are robbing us blind!”

Gnome:

“Sing a song of sixpence

A pocket full of rye.

FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS,

BAKED IN A PIE!”

Oh yes, we were willing to eat iguana curry because we were losing our vegetable garden to them.  Well, now we have declared war again…this time, it is the blackbirds!

The cat does his job…now and then…catching birds (I mean)…but not consistently enough…

Okay, so we are painting the veranda and putting railings up.  Also, there has been so much erosion, from rains, around the house that the ground is getting washed away!  Gnome has come up with a great plan to make partially raised beds, about 1/2 foot in height, and filling them up with our usual sawdust and seaweed.  Since water pools in these areas around the house, we have decided to grow peppermint and taro (or any other aquatic plants that we can think of) in these beds so that they can soak up all the water.  That sounds lovely…imagine the aroma of beds of mint around the house!

 Next on the list, is fixing up the gate because it is falling over.  The list is endless!  Anyway, we still try to add a nice touch to things so today we are going to go shopping in Punta Gorda (this is a rare event for Munchkin and Gnome…the shopping, I mean) and buy some Christmas lights for our new veranda.

Have a lovely weekend!!

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