Heading for lower temperatures, we picked this beauty from our Ponderosa Lemon Tree today. It has been yellow for a while and I'm not sure how to tell if it is ripe, but with a potential freeze warning for tomorrow night it is a done deal. I'll be covering the peppers and baby beet plants as well as the basil. After the next few days, temperatures are supposed to warm again.
Mack and I discovered we are not Swell people... We all headed out Christmas Eve Day to find the St. Pete Reef. It was a medium chop day on the water. I would call it medium swell as the only place we saw chop was at the pass from the Intercoastal to the Gulf. Once we arrived at the reef and set up to fish things got a little green... Fortunately Kirk was willing to end the trip early (there might have been a mutiny had he not). He had already met his goal of catching a grouper, though it was only 4 inches long and we had to release it rather than serve it for dinner. We'll try again. While today proved to be to windy, there is always next weekend.
If we are not out on the water there are projects for the New Year... including painting the kitchen as a midway project. It really needs a total redo, but at least the wallpaper was peeled off at Thanksgiving. A little wall prep is all that is needed to start the painting. We'll tile the remaining floors (that didn't get bamboo'd) this year and keep enough left over to add to the kitchen as needed when plans are finalized.
It is amazing to ride around and see trees laden with fruit in people's yards. I have a stop on the way to the library where some folks pick their avocados and grapefruit and leave them piled for folks who want it. Thank You! I rode to the library Christmas day to return some books before our trip to visit Kirk's family and spend time with K & D. It was amazing to see people outside grilling and visiting and yet smell turkeys roasting in the ovens.
We wish you the best for the New Year!
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