Around Our House Today

Like everyone else, because of Covid-19, we are still mostly staying home, not physically socializing and wearing our masks when we do go out. We’ve been to restaurants twice for breakfast so that was a nice break. The grocery stores we patronize follow strict protocols so we have no hesitation shopping in them. Twice I ordered groceries on line and they were delivered to our house. Many restaurants are also offering this service - here it is called “express”. We also feel comfortable in our dentist and medical clinic offices.

So it seems like we have become really boring but today we had a bit of excitement! A turkey buzzard landed on our internet cable connection pole and I managed to make a small video. It’s a bit jerky because I was trying to walk down our sloping laneway, holding my iPad and trying to zoom in at the same time. If this is not a turkey buzzard, please let me know.

Still on the theme of birds, we have parrots visiting our backyard coco tree and I made a video of them also.

I walked around our house today and took plant photos.

This is a peperomia, aka watermelon plant. The leaves do resemble watermelons. Our housekeeper Flor Maria gave me one small leaf cutting several months ago and look at it now - it’s flowering!

This one is called Dutchman’s pipe - it’s growing on the tall retaining wall between our house and the vacant lot next door. If this is not Dutchman’s pipe, please let me know.

Ginger flower.

We have lots of cocos this year.

Our mandarina trees are fruiting for the second time this year. These ones are unripe.

I have too many easels!

And one final foto - this is the rainy or green season. And when it rains in the late afternoon, our Cat likes to climb up onto the top of our vehicle and watch the world go by under shelter of our carport. Here he is early this evening - we are fogged in.