Mango Madness

It's a bumper year for mango. I wish that was a good thing here chez nous, but really all it means is that we'll have months of stinky fruit and lots of fruit flies all over the ground.

Here GB is scraping the driveway of mangoes so he can compost them under the banana trees.
We had a huge branch fall out of one of the trees. GB chainsawed it up and Ra'am is loading it up in the truck for delivery to the bananas

Full Load

Fixin and planting

When we finished the planting boxes around the koi pond, way back when, there were many things we did not anticipate. Firstly we filled the whole boxes with cinder, covering up the outlets and their covers that were in each one. All of the outlets are on one GFCI circuit, so when the lights went out, we had to dig around to figure which outlet had the reset button.
Also, we sunk pots in the cinder and figured we could just stick pots w/o those, so we could easily move plants around.
We didn't realize that the coqui frogs would love that space between the 2 pots so much. When coquis get in that area, their song just echoes so LOUDLY through the house, it's insane.

So slowly, we've been digging out the outlets and planting directly in pots.

Here we took all of the plants we have and laid them out. Unfortunately we found that most of the plants here don't like any sun, and 2 of the boxes get sun.

GB digging cinder. It's HAAARD work!

fini

Caught em!

Saw these little ones on the road 4/16

That one on the right is the runt.

Caught 5 of them in the trap!!

"Friendly" visitors

We've been getting a lot of wildlife visitations.

Some are friendly, some are not

Not friendly
this medium sized feral pig has been feasting on fallen mangoes
He seems to be unafraid of us. I guess the food is that good!

Here's the trap we set, hoping to catch him (and his friends)

Papa pheasant. There are several pair right now on our property. We see them each morning and evening.

Red-headed cardinal. This guy (as well as many other birds) have been feasting on these ripe waiwi right outside our kitchen window.

These dogs (3) are unwelcome skinny neighborhood dogs. One was caught in the above pig trap.
In non-animal news, we have our first pineapple!

And this is what GB and I look like after a long day's work