Various Happenings '09 - Philippines Part 1
When we arrived back home last February, we found our euphorbias infested with bugs chomping away on the leaves. Here are the nasty looking critters.
We immediately ran to Ace Hardware in the mall and picked up some chemicals to control them. I mixed it up with water as soon as we got home and sprayed the worms and I think it was pretty effective, haven't seen anymore after that.
I also noticed the threads on one of the faucets that I hook the water hose on to were missing and there's no way I can water the lawn on that side of the yard this way.
So I went and bought a replacement faucet. While I was unscrewing the old faucet, it broke off with the threaded piece still in the PVC on the wall. I had to use an old screw driver to take it off. After it came off I just screwed the new faucet onto the PVC. Success! I'm going to be a handyman yet!
When Donna bought the paint for the house at Home Depot in 2006, she was told that Behr was her best bet because it withstands weather with high humidity. So that's what she got but for some reason there's a section at the back of our house where the paint seemed to have faded. Last year, she got 4 gallons of the stuff and she started painting the outside of the house.
Later on she also painted the posts as well as the front metal fence. I told her to hire someone to do it, especially the fence since it's going to involve some detailed work but her stubborn streak won out in that argument.
Last year Emy and Nido took us to China Town in downtown LA. They bought these strange looking fruits called cherimoya. They tasted like a cross of guwayabano and atis back home. I even brought several seeds with me to try and grow them in the Philippines. There were already three of them that sprouted some leaves right before we left. Doret gave us a few anunas fruits and these are similar to atis except they have less seeds. Then it dawned on me that they resemble cherimoyas the most. Sorry, don't have pictures of cherimoyas - they are not cheap! But here are the anunas fruits below.
On February 6, my niece Jane and her husband Jake visited us in Greenfields along with their new baby daughter as well as grand niece Fel (big with child) and husband Albon and Jane's sister Ivy.
Former high school classmate Bert Franco and wife Merlyn had the housewarming for the house they had built at nearby Lakeshore last February. It was a two story structure with a small swimming pool at the back. Sitting right next to the lake, it's on a prime location in the subdivision.
The day after, February 8 was Leda's b'day so we headed on out to Muntinglupa to celebrate it with her.
Can you tell why we have such a hard time losing weight over there in spite of the daily morning walks?
Anyway, I've told you I got rid of the decorative banana variety I planted at the back of the house because it was growing wild on me. They have a nice and cute pink blossom but they don't really bear any fruits.
Doret gave me a shoot of his latundan variety and I planted it where the decorative variety was. Latundan is a common table banana and it looked like this when I planted it last year.
Its ripe fruits look like these.
When we came back from the US this year it has really grown with shoots of its own and lo and behold - a huge blossom!
After a few weeks the fruits started sprouting and much later I had to cut off the blossoms to make room for the fruits to grow.
They weren't quite ripe yet when we left last April. Doret was teasing me since we're gone, he'll harvest them for us and will tell us how sweet they were when we come back!
On February 25 we had Father Sito celebrate mass at the house for Elijah's 40th day. During the mass I sang the two songs that I sang during Elijah's funeral service in Forest Lawn last January. I totally lost it while I was reading Eph's letter. Father Sito told me afterwards, "I didn't think you'll be able to finish it."
We had some food catered and Donna invited friends and relatives to join us for lunch after the mass.
We immediately ran to Ace Hardware in the mall and picked up some chemicals to control them. I mixed it up with water as soon as we got home and sprayed the worms and I think it was pretty effective, haven't seen anymore after that.
I also noticed the threads on one of the faucets that I hook the water hose on to were missing and there's no way I can water the lawn on that side of the yard this way.
So I went and bought a replacement faucet. While I was unscrewing the old faucet, it broke off with the threaded piece still in the PVC on the wall. I had to use an old screw driver to take it off. After it came off I just screwed the new faucet onto the PVC. Success! I'm going to be a handyman yet!
When Donna bought the paint for the house at Home Depot in 2006, she was told that Behr was her best bet because it withstands weather with high humidity. So that's what she got but for some reason there's a section at the back of our house where the paint seemed to have faded. Last year, she got 4 gallons of the stuff and she started painting the outside of the house.
Later on she also painted the posts as well as the front metal fence. I told her to hire someone to do it, especially the fence since it's going to involve some detailed work but her stubborn streak won out in that argument.
Last year Emy and Nido took us to China Town in downtown LA. They bought these strange looking fruits called cherimoya. They tasted like a cross of guwayabano and atis back home. I even brought several seeds with me to try and grow them in the Philippines. There were already three of them that sprouted some leaves right before we left. Doret gave us a few anunas fruits and these are similar to atis except they have less seeds. Then it dawned on me that they resemble cherimoyas the most. Sorry, don't have pictures of cherimoyas - they are not cheap! But here are the anunas fruits below.
On February 6, my niece Jane and her husband Jake visited us in Greenfields along with their new baby daughter as well as grand niece Fel (big with child) and husband Albon and Jane's sister Ivy.
Former high school classmate Bert Franco and wife Merlyn had the housewarming for the house they had built at nearby Lakeshore last February. It was a two story structure with a small swimming pool at the back. Sitting right next to the lake, it's on a prime location in the subdivision.
The day after, February 8 was Leda's b'day so we headed on out to Muntinglupa to celebrate it with her.
Can you tell why we have such a hard time losing weight over there in spite of the daily morning walks?
Anyway, I've told you I got rid of the decorative banana variety I planted at the back of the house because it was growing wild on me. They have a nice and cute pink blossom but they don't really bear any fruits.
Doret gave me a shoot of his latundan variety and I planted it where the decorative variety was. Latundan is a common table banana and it looked like this when I planted it last year.
Its ripe fruits look like these.
When we came back from the US this year it has really grown with shoots of its own and lo and behold - a huge blossom!
After a few weeks the fruits started sprouting and much later I had to cut off the blossoms to make room for the fruits to grow.
They weren't quite ripe yet when we left last April. Doret was teasing me since we're gone, he'll harvest them for us and will tell us how sweet they were when we come back!
On February 25 we had Father Sito celebrate mass at the house for Elijah's 40th day. During the mass I sang the two songs that I sang during Elijah's funeral service in Forest Lawn last January. I totally lost it while I was reading Eph's letter. Father Sito told me afterwards, "I didn't think you'll be able to finish it."
We had some food catered and Donna invited friends and relatives to join us for lunch after the mass.
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