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April Update -Finca, Flowers, Friends, Fruit and Fun

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Hanging with my little guy in Rincon

If it weren’t for me being a chronic photo-taker, I don’t know if I would ever blog anymore. The pictures help me to remember what we have been up to which has been a lot of fun! We have been busy with visiting friends, the flower business continues to grow (literally haha), the cabana has been booked regularly and we have seen some cool sights as well. Aeden is growing up fast and at 7 months can now sit up on his own and eats sooo much regular food! Here are quite a few pictures that tell so much more than my hands can type.


Babies grow so fast! I had no idea. Compare 1 month to 6 months


Britton and Aeden at Rompeolas in Aguadilla


We have a bunch of new varieties of flowers coming in right now


Family fun at the farm


Why is Britton usually carrying Aeden? Because he is huge in comparison to me! These pictures were taken at the same moment in time 🙂


And work -clearing out more underbrush and dead trees to plant fruit trees and flowers


One of Kitty’s last pictures 🙁


We buried him near the bridge so we can think of him every day. We miss you, Kitty. You were a good cat


I am also so saddened by the death of our former bandmate, drummer, artist, jokester and friend, Rob


We finished the concrete staircase that enters the jungle and added solar lights


Fun in Aguada


With the babe


At the pool of Casa Islena -Aeden loves kicking water


At the pool of Villa Montana too!


With his sweet little friend and our new friends


At the pool of Rincon of the Seas

 
With friends Tracy and Fernando


We’ve had some large orders of flowers lately!


And more and more keep growing like these gardenias


Peek-a-boo!


New variety of starfruit started growing on a tree we planted!


And our first ever Siam Rose flower bloomed! We weren’t sure about this one since it usually takes a lot more rain than Rincon gets

Grosella tree is going off!


So I brought a bag of them to Roots Bar to see what magic Sashary can make with them!


These gals are so fun!


So sad to see our good friends the Kersches move away (at Ode in Aguada)


Chicken in the bushes


We spend a lot of time outside on the farm with the munchkin


Manzano guineos as they ripen – apple flavored bananas! Not your typical store banana!

 
It’s a colorful time of year! Ornamental Turmeric Flower and caladium from our farm and a Reina de las flores in the market

Our little boy is growing up too fast!


Go where love grows! My two cowboys!


Yeehaw at Cowboys in Rincon


Palm Sunday procession in Rincon


Gecko visiting an ornamental banana flower


“Bienvenidos” is too cool! And a great part of Rincon


Stopped in at the Ag Fest in Mayaguez


And the ArtWalk -we don’t go out at night much anymore with the little guy


Britton, bananas and baby!


Fun seeing our friends Matt and Jamie again


Hanging at the beach


And my friend from high school/Colorado, Sarah and her family at Villa Cofresi


Pineapples are growing good!


And more bananas! These are the “Cuban reds”


More flowers! Double hibiscus and orchid


We also ate our first jaboticaba after about 4 years of waiting!


The gardens are really coming in beautifully!


Driving along in Mayaguez, this horse was standing there like “Am I not Magestic? You should take my picture!” So I did


Plantain delivery in action!


Saw these ornate Don Quixote (I assume) carved figurines in a garden store!

Check out this stinky star flower I saw walking around too!


Cool mural in Aguada


Selfie time!


Papaya grows wild here! We didn’t plant this, but we sure did eat it! Tasted like cantaloupe


Well, that’s all folks! Until the next time!

Oh and here is Aeden’s 7 month update video! Enjoy!

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Getting Settled

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We are starting to get settled in. Everywhere we look, though, there is more to do! It is hard to prioritize everything we need to do. Should we weedwack the front drive in or scrape the ceilings so the paint stops flaking on our heads as we are sleeping? Or should we get a dresser so we can take our clothes out of the suitcases? Or should we just hang out at the beach?

What’s great is that we can choose how much we want to do and we can rest when we want. Britton likes to wake up earlier than me. Yesterday he cut himself a path to the starfruit tree and the passionfruit vines and we ate that for breakfast. Pretty cool.


Starfruit cut
Starfruit AKA carambola from our yard

Inside of passionfruit
Passionfruit AKA parcha from our yard

white bird

We also saw this cool white bird hanging out eating lizards. Such a strange creature with that super long neck!

We went to the Home Depot to pick up a few of those needed things. Our friends are so great, they gave us some gift certificates there and they were very helpful! We picked up a ceiling fan, a bookshelf, some tools, trashcan (zafacon! a new word for Britton to learn), paint and supplies, a chironja tree (orange grapefruit cross) and other stuff to help get us started.

Cassie in HD
In Home Depot of Mayaguez

Then this morning we kept at the jungle trimming including taking down some of the dead palm fronds from the coconut palms and the traveler’s palm.

Traveler Palm Seed bunch BK
This is an old heart of palm that weighed about 30 lbs!

Travelers Palm seeds
Such an alien world to us!

We had fun working outside with our Colorado lungs we weren’t even breathing hard, but we sure were sweating a lot! 

And after working in the yard, the local beer, Medalla Light, with limes was the perfect thirst quencher sitting on the roof of the cabana under the shade of the mango tree.

Medalla and Lime

When it gets dark we settle in and watch a show on the laptop or clean up the inside of the cabana a little. It has rained a little bit and the coqui frogs and insects turn the quiet jungle into an orchestra. I had a dream last night that all the sounds of the jungle were actually a salsa band with little insect trumpet players.

House at night with vines

So, we are slowly getting settled in. We are still in need of a vehicle (we have a rental right now) and we haven’t even started on the wood house at all, but I think we are moving at a good pace. We are really enjoying this new life. I would definitely say we are jubilados! 

 

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