It’s one thing to say something to yourself, and it’s another to hear it from a complete stranger. We currently have two medical students staying with us in our spare bedrooms. I was welcoming them, showing them around and introducing them to the animals and showing them all of our tropical plants in our living room. “…This is the coffee tree with coffee berries that are turning red!”

And this is the banana tree, and the avocado trees, and the citrus collection, and pomegranate, and the Dracaena palm and the aloe vera, and the orchids and this here is our latest collection: a pineapple plant with a mini-pineapple growing on it:

Our pineapple plant we got at Home Depot in Greeley

After I finished with our little botanical tour in our tropical hotel lobby of a living room, one of them exclaimed, “It looks like you’re living in the wrong place! You should be living somewhere tropical.” How right she was. It is funny to hear a stranger point out the most obvious thing you’ve been working for. I suppose our house and lifestyle here really do point to our desire to live in the tropics with lots of warm-loving plants, chickens roaming about and people hosted at our home in the style of a guesthouse. We do it as best we can in Colorado, so I am sure when we move to Puerto Rico we’ll be ready to do the real thing in the right place. In the mean time, we’re starting to amass quite the collection of all things tropical right here in the wrong place! 🙂