May Happenings

Once again I have neglected posting updates to the website. So, just to get up to date …

It has been a rainy spring, over 9” of rain in April. Green is definitely the primary color as I look out at the property. The coffee trees are full of their shiny green leaves and new green coffee beans. Ditto with the macadamia trees - leaves and green husked macnuts.

I have finally found time and energy to regenerate my vegetable gardens and we are enjoying an abundance of tomatoes, yams, and eggplants plus all the herbs and fresh fruit. Zucchini and yellow squash are just sprouting and the pineapple patch has pineapples so heavy they are leaning over on the ground. Our soursop tree gave us a huge soursop that I used to make soursop ice cream. So good, and there was enough left to freeze for future soursop jam. After many months of avocados everywhere, the trees are taking a break We now wished we had frozen some.

Mothers’ Day was yesterday and we had a houseful of relatives. Wonderful to have everyone together to celebrate family. There was a bountiful meal ending with homemade mango sorbet, followed by silly games.