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Sunday, September 23, 2018

Backyard Sun Fun on Sunday

Saw Palmetto grow wild all over Florida, yet people buy them and use for landscape. this was around the base of our tree when we moved in and is now 40 times larger.

My memory is shot! I shopped from my list Saturday am, while placing everything in the truck, I realized I did not buy the meat, not one oz of meat. Had to return to get it.

Bob wanted tacos, I went back and bought the burger for it, and picked up the hard and soft taco mix box and came home and it was just the shells.

Bob asked me where the leftovers chicken was, I was staring from the breakfast bar into the fridge and knew it was behind the glass bowl with green lid with left over Brussel Sprouts.

I could not think of the words Brussel Sprouts, He kept saying Well? behind what?

I finally screamed the glass bowl with the green lids with green things in it.

He says Whey are you yelling????

ARRGGGG

Monday, April 17, 2017

Funny thing happened on the way to a tree trimming....See that blurry thing in the middle of the above photos? See the cable laying in the palmettos? that is ONE end of the CABLE that brings our INTERNET, TV and PHONE into our house. The OTHER end is attached to the roof.

Yes, we have no cable was my cry as the Spectrum support guy answered my call, nothing, we have NOTHING because My husband was trimming a limb with his new chain saw on an extension pole and the buzzing saw went through the limb and the recoil of the saw back over his head SAWED the cable in half.

23 hours with no Wireless, 4 of my five devices were dead... I did have books on my Kindle E reader, but it was hard to read because TV man had nothing to DO... we could not go to bed earlier because we already go to bed early...

Kudos to Spectrum for having us back on line in under 24 hours.. The Cable guy was scheduled from 12 to 2 and he showed up at 11:15 and at 11:30 he was DONE and everything was Back. No Charge for destroying their property on our property.

NOTE: The Man was not injured in the slaying of the cable line... The saw on the pole is in custody of the wife until further notice.

Friday, April 7, 2017

Saw Palm/Serenoa/Tala-Cani

Our Saw Palmetto has been at the base of the pine tree for the 27 years we have lived here. Bob hates it, I love it. Slow growing but BIG and slowly takes over. I have taken zillions of photos of it and what grows in and around it. On Wikipedia I found they can live to be 500 to 700 years old. Wow.

The orange hibiscus reaches out into the saw like fronds and thrives as does the bright green fern. Below is the green fern as it looks during our drought. The hibiscus and Saw Palmetto are drought resistant.

Other names, per Wikipedia

tala (Choctaw); cani (Timucua); ; taalachoba ("big palm", Alabama); ta:laɬ a kko ("big palm", Creek); talco :bˆı ("big palm", Mikasuki); talimushi ("palmetto's uncle", Choctaw)