Let’s just call this week WILD THINGS
This is a wild anthurium growing in front of our house.
This is what a common anthurium looks like (stock photo from google images). You’d think that the major difference would be color and size. I disagree. The main difference is that our wild anthurium… Smells like Cow Manure. Next difference is that our wild one is Floppy. Why does Austin bring me a flower like that with excitement in his eyes???
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Ok, a lot of this week is going to be further info on photos that made it to my OTHER blog. First up, the passion flower:
Actually, this was a different variety of passion fruit called a garandila. I think this is the wilder, older version. The fruits are smaller than our usual passion fruits
And TOUGH. Really, really hard to open. I didn’t have a hammer, so I used this heavy glass paperweight.
But inside — passion fruit! Yay!
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Next up: cats in boxes
That was from this morning. Akka actually pointed this out to me and made an astute observation:
He has seen cats in boxes, in baskets and in plastic baskets – but he has never seen a cat in a bucket. I haven’t either. Must feel claustrophobic.
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Next: the mouse rescued from the washer.
In that same blog I also mentioned RAT GLUE ….
Yep. Austin took care of it. His method is to turn it over onto cardboard and put the trapped varmint out of its misery with a swift kick. (And he didn’t think my rat glue would work). (For readers from the other blog – I am considering this a kindness to people…..)
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Wildest thing of the week:
This thing is a FLOWER – the flower of a cycad (strange palm-like tree). It looks like a huge pine cone. Austin says it is going to do more strange stuff. I’ll keep watching.
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Wishing you all a very happy week.
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