Turning Orange....

We bought these lime plants for Chinese New Year back around February this year. We lost all the fruits after the festivity was over but there was no reason to throw them away. The plants grew on and produced some flowers and plenty of fruits started appearing.

We still now have a lot of them. Despite their orange color, these are limes, they are not sweet like orange at all. Nice to see, but not for eating. Maybe cooking?

Back And Living!

A different country has a different set of rules. What am I to ask "don't kill my internet!!" to the management of the building when they said that they were going to do their so-called annual" maintenance of the building by shutting down electricity and everything else that I practically live for. It was not the case in our previous place.

Not entirely two days without those necessities, but I mostly had no internet for those two days. I had no electricity for nearly four hours, got me a little worried that my Häagen-Dazs would melt like crazy and my cheeses would end up in the garbage bin. I should have been in another country enjoying my annual holiday, but somehow I was here. That was miserable. Shame on me indeed!

But I want to plan ahead, I hope to remember to be away next July. I am spoiled by this technology and my life was altered without it. Duh! Life is good again with electricity and internet, working well. I am connected and connecting again and I am so relieved......

We had a heavy downpour this morning and the remainder of the day was cool. It began raining heavily when we were on the way back from the airport after picking up our youngest family member who spent the last one month mostly in beautiful Cambridge. We lost many of our limes to the strong wind and heavy rain, but still have some that survive and are growing well.

Growing Limes

So here we are in July, we are in the second half of the year already, enjoying lots of hot sun some days and wet grounds on others. Strange weather or global warming?

Back in February, DH was not able to resist the temptation to get away from getting orange/lime trees as part of decoration for Chinese New Year. Back there, there were many limes hanging on the plants, they were orange color with some red ribbons tied in many places. I am not convinced it was the real color, though, as I suspect there was some manipulation done by the grower. I have been keeping and nourishing the plants since and they flowered and the fruits started to grow. Very tiny at present, but there are many of them.