January 24, 2011

• burgeoning bougs

   
  the last few days to a week of regular evening thundershowers have done wonders for growth. unfortunately, it’s almost harvest time for the rice fields, which means this rain is too much too late. the wild white spikey flowers are blooming again and it has me wondering if it’s already an entire year since i saw them bloom last.
  
  this year, despite the difficulties in readjusting, has flown by at lightening speed and we are already looking at less than a year until we leave for furlough again. ack!

  

  
  the geraniums on the guest room window sill are loving the long periods of morning sun.

  
  Solo came last Thursday with a 7 foot high nikosia? orchid to plant in my garden. it was the high point of my day. I told him that i thought God had given me this garden and it’s flowers because He wanted us to stay in Madagascar. If there’s suddenly a blight that demolishes all the plants at once i’ll take that as a sign for us to leave. haha.

  rhonda‘s bougainvillea (just cut by solo in this pic, drat! I think he should rather let it grow up and over the wall and then across along the top the whole length of the garden… any thoughts Karina?) I remember Rhonda lamenting over the bougainvillea because it was never flowering, and of course, now that she’s gone it’s covered in flowers). Before Solo cut it smaller it was covered in many more blooms. alas. i reckon my own flower-less bougs will do the same to me when i leave. Let’s think of it as their way of mourning our departures, shall we?

  
  Last week i made this recipe with the new 5kg batch of cashews. They are dElish! I’m also liking how the articles i’m reading in the magazines people have left behind tell me that i should eat more fats that come from things like olives, avocados, and nuts. Woot! So anyway, since making these honey roasted cashews we’ve been using them in two-seed-dressing salad (with spinach from our back yard garden and mangoes from Maintiraino – OH! YUM! According to Kingsolver and her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle i’m doing pretty good with keeping to ingredients whose origins come from very near to us. [a triumphant "HaHA!"] ), on top of our home made icecream (i confess though that the cream comes from france, alas), and today i used the honey roasted nuts on plum/mango/banana/litchi/apple fruit salad with a bit of natural yogurt. egad! Anyway, we’re getting rather nuts around here. haha.

  Did day 4 of Hip-Hop Abs (“HHA”) today. Woot! Still not feeling it in the abs though. The guy, “Shawn T” (shaunti?), always asks if we’re “feelin’ it?!”, but i cant say that i ever do. So, either i’ve already got hip-hop abs from previous bouts with pilates and regular dance parties held with my boys, just the over-layer of flab just disguises it ‘so no one can boast’ ( ) or else i’m not doing the hip-hopping correctly.

  Anyway, that’s it for today. time for ‘dodo zaza’ (naptime for baby).

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