Well yesterday, after just living in this house a few days, two more of our neighbors came over to introduce themselves and invite us over on Christmas for their party. Wow, we aren't in the hood anymore. In three years in Miramar I talked to one neighbor, only because I was giving him a jump. It feels good to live in such a great neighborhood.
Yesterday I took the day off. I finally got everything out of the apartment, finished the cleaning, and turned in the keys. I'm now officially done with that place. The funny thing is I noticed that after three years of me complaining about the trash situation there they finally put up signs that say "please put your trash in the compactor and help keep your neighborhood clean." Not like those people can read or would even care if they could, but I found that pretty funny that they have to put a sign up to tell people to put their trash inside the compactor instead of throwing it in the parking lot. Anyways, back on topic, I got rid of most of the trash and boxes from moving and had a huge list of things to do but only accomplished close to half of them.
When I got home I had the Dominican crew over setting up Christmas decorations. Dominican crew = Natalie's aunts, sisters, & mom. I wasn't expecting to have Christmas decorations this year but they showed up with lights and other decorations and got to work. Most of the boxes inside the house got unpacked too. All we have left is the master suite, the garage, and setting up my gym room.
I was also able to plant 9 of my pineapples yesterday. I put three in the front yard around my mound where the 5 palm trees grow and I put the other six around my palm tree behind the pool. I planted my plumeria, cut the dead leaves of my banana trees with my machete, and put some bromeliads and airplants in my palm tree and my gumbo limbo tree. Climbing the gumbo limbo tree was a lot of fun. It's a big tree and there are already lots of airplants growing in it so I decided to add to that. I planted my prayer plants by my pond because they create a nice wet environment that is frog friendly and I already have a lot of frogs by my pond and would like to keep it that way. I found out that I have 8 orchids in the palm next to the pond as well, only one is in bloom right now.
I also got people out to mark all the utilities and sewage and stuff so I can do landscaping. I got the cable internet hooked up and at the end of the day managed to take a really quick swim.
Even though I didn't get everything done I wanted to I think it was a pretty productive day. I was pretty burned out last night and needless to say I've been sleeping like a champ.
Today I'm going to go to Home Depot and get more supplies. I'm hoping to get started on my veggie/fruit garden tonight, starting with my tomatoes first. Then I also have a variety of bell peppers, jalapenos, some other pepper I don't know the name of, summer squash, water melon, cucumbers, cantaloupe, and kiwi.
I have more fruit trees and plants that I'm going to add later, maybe closer to summertime like jakfruit, lychee, miracle fruit, another mango tree, black berries, raspberries, strawberries, etc...
As of now I have several banana trees, a papaya tree, mango tree, coconut tree, and my pineapples. And my banana trees aren't just any bananas. They are the best kind, Manzanas. Manzana, also known as lady finger, or apple banana, are the little bananas from Colombia and they are the best ones. Another cool thing I just learned about bananas is that before the flower turns into a banana you can eat it like an artichoke and it's suppose to taste similar. Interesting, I think I'll try it.
Well, that's all for now. Still haven't had a chance to take pictures, I'll get to that this weekend once everything is cleaned up.
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