D is for Delightful
9 Jan 2023 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhackThere are some delightful things about this apartment so far:
We have hibiscus growing along the front porch, and they attract Palestine Sunbirds. So pretty! and they have nice vocalizations. I don't have a good lens for capturing wildlife, so have a short video:
Since it has been a bit rainy, we haven't had a chance to be out in the garden much. We did rectify that today and spent a lot of time pruning, removing unwanted volunteers (like a wild rose bush that was trying to smother the hibiscus and gaining on the lawn), and mowing the "grass."* have friends living just across the street, and N (the dad) came over to loan me his battery-powered pruner that came in very hand for cutting off branches from a dead orange tree.
J bought a weed-wacker to take care of the lawn because of the odd shape, rather than a lawnmower. Along with that tool, he brought home a passionfruit vine and a seedless grape vine.
And after doing all that, we took a bagful of clementines into the house and juiced them. We filled up a jar for N and his family, too. :D
The most delightful thing of all has been our upstairs neighbor letting down** a bag of goodies for us.
We have hibiscus growing along the front porch, and they attract Palestine Sunbirds. So pretty! and they have nice vocalizations. I don't have a good lens for capturing wildlife, so have a short video:
Since it has been a bit rainy, we haven't had a chance to be out in the garden much. We did rectify that today and spent a lot of time pruning, removing unwanted volunteers (like a wild rose bush that was trying to smother the hibiscus and gaining on the lawn), and mowing the "grass."* have friends living just across the street, and N (the dad) came over to loan me his battery-powered pruner that came in very hand for cutting off branches from a dead orange tree.
J bought a weed-wacker to take care of the lawn because of the odd shape, rather than a lawnmower. Along with that tool, he brought home a passionfruit vine and a seedless grape vine.
And after doing all that, we took a bagful of clementines into the house and juiced them. We filled up a jar for N and his family, too. :D
The most delightful thing of all has been our upstairs neighbor letting down** a bag of goodies for us.
Not once, but thrice! First it was some sort of fried bread with an anise flavor, then cookies, then a fried sweet flavored with orange-blossom water. We sent back some crustless cranberry "pie" and some olive oil oatmeal cookies and some drawings that the kids did. :)
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*I am pretty sure what we have all over the yard, in addition to all the arums, is Bermuda Buttercup or Oxalis pes-caprae.
**At first I thought a bag had caught on a snag and had a string come unraveled. But then we noticed that it kept jigging and dancing up and down, as if a fisher were on the other end, wiggling a baited hook. :P It really tickled the kids.OK, it tickled all of us. :D
So far, these neighbors are perfect! They are an older couple and are quiet. LOL. I can hear their TV when I wake up, but it is not blaring or anything. Other than that, we barely know they are there, and that, with the garden, makes us feel like we are in a house instead of the bottom floor of a 5 (or is it six?) story apartment building.
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*I am pretty sure what we have all over the yard, in addition to all the arums, is Bermuda Buttercup or Oxalis pes-caprae.
**At first I thought a bag had caught on a snag and had a string come unraveled. But then we noticed that it kept jigging and dancing up and down, as if a fisher were on the other end, wiggling a baited hook. :P It really tickled the kids.OK, it tickled all of us. :D
So far, these neighbors are perfect! They are an older couple and are quiet. LOL. I can hear their TV when I wake up, but it is not blaring or anything. Other than that, we barely know they are there, and that, with the garden, makes us feel like we are in a house instead of the bottom floor of a 5 (or is it six?) story apartment building.
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Date: 16 Jan 2023 06:06 pm (UTC)It was a black bird, and he went on a small rant about which birds everyone OUGHT to know and be able to identify. :p
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Date: 16 Jan 2023 07:35 pm (UTC)