Among the many things I have not been blogging is how much rain we are getting, in part because this seems like bragging. I realize that many of our local crops require a very rigid sun/water/ temperature routine (on the other hands the catch-as-catch-can farmers market sellers have stalls overflowing) so all this rain is not a good thing in that way. After the fires the first year we had this house & every couple years after that pretty much up until the year before last I have vowed not to complain about the rain.
But.
But the pressure in my head has been killing me. My allergies are on wild monkey at the wheel overdrive & my ear are popping like that monkey is sitting on my brain flicking a clog/pop switch at random.
Speaking of monkeys, we have had so much rain that we seems to be looking at an early banana crop. We had some verrrrrry cold days last winter & I did not have my hopes up for bananas at all, but those distinctive purple petals showed up on the walkway last week so I looked up. Sure enough, two purple blooms are emerging. I have been reliably told that the variety we have is "lady fingers" which have a very distinctive (wonderful!) flavor & do not ship well at all so they are a strictly local pleasure. & by local I mean my own house & maybe a few friends & neighbors.
In a not entirely unrelated note: we have been doing a lot of gardening this year & I plan to di up some of the young banana plants that are encroaching on other parts of the yard. If anyone (locals only again, sorry) is interested let me know.
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