Bees are pollinating the cucumber plants! I know that seems mundane and boring, but I haven't previously seen that here. I've been pollinating by hand for both cukes and zucchini and it has worked (though I am sure it was no fun for the plant) as I have several of each growing. Nothing of eating size yet. Last night we had a salad that had home-grown radishes and spinach. Yum. And I've had a bush bean (raw). Don't tell, I sneaked it while checking on the garden.
We lost a banana tree. It was in the line of fire when the oscillating sprinkler malfunctioned and stayed in one place for the duration.
We've been learning more about the gulf and fishing and our Salty Mama boat. Lesson: Only two lines can troll off the back of our boat. If there are three then there is a mess and lots of time is spent untangling or line is lost because we cut our losses.
Mackerel are running. Our goal was to have one for Thanksgiving dinner. We missed that by 3 days. Thursday and Friday were gusty and cloudy, so we had no boating joy. Saturday found us still kicking back and enjoying being home. By Sunday the call of the water was strong! We launched by 9 am and trailered by 3:30 pm. In the meantime we caught 3 Spanish mackerel, all of keeping size. It was a blast! Upon arriving home we hit Google to find out how to fillet them and prepare them for dinner. Two are in the deep freeze and one was delicious with fresh squeezed oranges, basil, rosemary and thyme.
Gotta love Google.
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