Goiaba branca
My first goiaba branca (white guava).
The tree only produced two, but it was late in its first season. I am hopeful for next summer.
White guava are less flavoured than the traditional pinky ones, and they have a short window between ripe and rotten.
Ate it for breakfast this morning.
As for my ‘normal’ guava, I am eating them daily as they ripen.
Exciting news!
My bricks
I have a new brick.
You may remember from a few CTWWs back that I have bricks in my kitchen, which is a bit like having bats in the belfry, but with more purpose.
I am going to try to remove some of the partitions and line them with cardboard to accommodate my knives better and prevent the cutting edge from grating against the harshness of the brick.
Most of you know, that one of my hidden talents is a chef. As a chef, I take good care of my knives and they are finely honed; it doesn’t take much to knock the edge off.
Further good news. I have only one incandescent light bulb left in the house. I changed the kitchen one yesterday (after four days of procrastinating in the dark) to a CFL. A story about that on my EIMDBPFPR post.
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So, what do we have for CTWW this week?
Discovering Nature
This week, go outside and spend some time. Perhaps take a leisurely stroll down a hiking trail or sit in a park. If you have a yard, find a comfortable spot and look at the world around you. Take your time and relish the experience. The idea, here, is to discover and appreciate the natural world around us … to see what we usually miss … to marvel at earth’s inhabitants.
Apt. A comment I made on another blog during the week, that “I don’t have a smartphone, so I am always looking up and around as I walk.”
Oblivious to his surroundings
People have become so enamored with their cellphones, iPhones, Smartphones, etc that they walk around with the eyes on their little touch screens and miss the marvels that surround them.
Up, around, down; there are marvels big and small everywhere.
People have forgotten how to appreciate nature.
Not only IT appliances, but the stress of day to day living, rushing here, rushing there, panicking because the boss wants that report before lunch; directs our attention away from nature.
The praça, park outside my gate
When I walk to the gate, I stop and look at my plants, check the acerola bush for any signs of blossom, any guava ready to be picked, is there a new shoot growing in the compost, how are my chillies ripening…
You see interesting things
Outside the gate, I look around me, I look for possible plants growing on the roadside to take home, I see insects and birds, lizards sunbathing; sometimes I stop merely to marvel at things.
Other times, I just sit in the park across from my gate, Clorinha comes with me and romps in the bushes or sits beside me on the bench for a stroke.
We need to take time out, not only to see what’s around or above us, but to de-stress.
I spend a lot of my day sitting right here, where I am now; a ten minute sit in the park with a fresh coffee and cigarette, I return with a new vigor, inspiration, enthusiasm.
Nature is the great leveler; it brings us back to earth. It stops our egos in their tracks and puts things in perspective.
It reminds us of our place in the scheme…
Eco-Crap 
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