wow

I am drooling looking at your pics!

Beauhemian, me too lol!

Lulu, exactly. At first when we got the tree, I was wondering how on earth it will ever produce anything at all. But no, a determined little creature did! And, wow, so profously in its only second year of life.

,
Gosia

Dear Gosia, do you know which variety of persimmon Luke did plant? I have been researching which would be best for my mum out at Ellendale (just near Mount Field NP). What a delight to have those amazing fruit for your family! xx

I too have lovely fruit memories as a kid including gooseberries...do your bushes give you fruit yet?

Oh thank you! That would be fabulous help! I'm sure your garden will recover. My mum's place had a neglected orchard when she moved in Dec 06 and now the blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries and apples are producing abundantly. Really abundantly for the blueberries - whoa! Berries like pine needles as a mulch for the correct PH (acid I think?). I am a bit frustrated by being a renter...a gypsy...cause I want to settle into a garden! The place I am just leaving had an amazing apricot tree, and grapevines that produced for months in incredible abundance for all our family, friends and the whole neighbourhood's bird population. I took some cuttings. Grapes are aparently the easiest fruit to propogate. Would you like a couple? They will just sit there over winter not doing much but I would put them in a pot, water them and cover with a plastic bag so the condensation will water them until spring.

I can just imagine your amazing magical place of a garden with fruit and flowers in many colour and shapes, and critters flying and crawling around in the amazing web we know as Life - wow!

All the power and health to you creating you dream. Maybe I could help you sometime when I get settled into my new place? That would be fun.

Have the most enjoyable day!

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
- Chinese Proverb

 

I woke up this morning, had a shower, and then made breakfast for the kiddies:


Then, I packed up my food for today's work:


What's in the green bag? I won't make it too easy for you. Spot the food in my office!:







Found it yet? Here it is! (this is what powers my scientific work):









When I get home tonight, I might have a salad, a huge (equivalent to several serves of what I would get at a restaurant) bowl of it, all for me, I am salivating already at the thought of it, why? be Cos lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, avo, maybe a few olives, orange dressing, mmm... Or, perhaps a coconut smoothie. Can't make up my mind, usually I eat anything that's in view and edible! Not too much thought processing, just hunger and feast. Moving forward for me is enjoying my food! No judgment, no restraints, no guilt, only bliss, not some bliss, TOTAL bliss!

 
Gosia

Wow, that's a huge salad, yummmmmyyyyyyy.

Hi Theresa!

I am coming exactly from the point of view that you are presenting. No pedestalism (I boycott it ha ha)! Many Hindu would probably like to turn Amma into some sort of religion, but Amma is beyond that. Amma means "mother", to me she is my mother who gave me the motherly love that I had never got before, which gave me the energy to live. Her life is nothing but being on a pedestal. It is work work work, which she's done ever since she was a little girl (instead of schooling, worked all day for her extended families and got into trouble for feeding the poor with her parents' money, not wanting to get married, chased her husband-to-be with a stick ha ha, and hugging all people even men, a big no no there). She now works on various multiple projects, apart from giving her time and heart to people around her. She spends many many hours every day hugging hundreds and thousands of people in one day (without even going to a toilet, no idea how she does that lol), giving love to every being she sees no matter who they are, loving everyone and touching hearts of everyone she hugs (see it here), she has a permanent mark on her cheek from hugging people. When I get a chance to see her, I get as many hugs as I can get, and I sit as close to her as I can, and watch her, and breathe the ennergy IN. I see the various external things occuring during a day with Amma as symbols of the internal transformations. After that I am energized for many months. She really is an amazing love-energy soul, don't deny yourself the miracle of her hug based on someone's shortcomings.  This is the best treat you could give to your SELF.  People adore Amma, because she is so adorable!

Try upping the temperature a bit for the crackers (higher at first, it won't cook them, lower later) for best results.

ooo,
Gosia