Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #87, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Dave: Hauoli Makahiki Hou - Happy New Year to you too! LOL, I had to check and double check my spelling with that! A few days ago I was looking though a box of old recipes that had belonged to my aunt and I found a little brochure of "Hawaiian Holiday" Recipes. One page is titled It's Fun To Speak Hawaiian and has a list of words with translation. It says the pronunciation is exceedingly simple. Ha! ... try teaching it to this old southern gal! Of course, reading and hearing it aloud are two different things.

LOL, yep Zach is a great "Tropical" (zone 10) dog, a spoiled rotten 11 yr old yellow lab. My sister and her family are picking up their new puppy next week. They recently lost their 5 yr old, 250 lb. English Mastiff to cancer and are getting another Mastiff puppy, a female this time. Poor Zach will be worn out with a rambunctious little pup in the house.

That doggie in your last photo is too cute! With that face he/she could be a movie star! Great pic of you strummin that guitar, what kind of music?

Texasgal: Your Dusty is sure a handsome fella. How old is he? Princess is almost 15 but sometimes still acts like a youngster although she doesn't like other cats. She was my mom's cat and we took her when my mom passed away six years ago. At the time we had three other cats and she tore into them every chance she got. She wanted to be an only child and now she is as the others were older and have since crossed the rainbow bridge. Princess would like to get out into the yard and chase away strays that come around but she is an indoor only cat because she has no front claws. Her only outdoor area is the screened pool deck that runs the length of the back of the house, and she seems content with that. I just have to watch when neighbor kitties or stray cats are passing through the yard so that she doesn't go through the screen after them!

Zig: Now that's a LIZARD for sure! I don't think I'd want to see one of those guys around my house! I'm okay with the little green anole type because they don't have any teeth ... but those big ones, Yikes! There's a problem with non-native wildlife here in parts of Florida, large Pythons, Iguanas, Monitor Lizards and I don't want to come in contact with any of them. We have alligators and crocs here too, I think every body of fresh water in the state of Florida has alligators and we hear stories of them taking dogs on occasion. It's against the law to feed gators but people still do it and then the gators get accustomed to humans and the problems begin. I'm always hearing of large gators having to be trapped and relocated or sometimes killed. There is a gator hunting season for a short time each year, but only so many permits are issued and there's a limit on how many can be killed.

This is one of the stray kitties that a neighbor has been feeding, along with Raccoons and Opossums and whatever else happens by the wooded lot next to their house...