Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Our new house!!

We moved to our new house about 2 weeks ago, and are finally settled in.  It is so nice!! We are about a 2 minute walk from the back gate of campus and no hills and landslides!!!
This is the front of our house:

We live on the 1st floor and have a fenced in yard for Rascal. 
These are some of the amazing flowers that we have growing in our yard.


This is a pineapple bush, I guess is what you call it.  I never knew how pineapples grew until I came here.  The pineapple grows right on top and you cut the pineapple off at the bottom of the pineapple.  We have a couple of these, but this is the biggest one.


This is our avacado tree in our backyard.  The avacados here are green on the outside and are called avacado pears.  They taste just the same and are YUMMY!! The tree bears avacados once a year and they are in season now!
You will also notice our Caribbean clothes dryer!! We are fortunate enough to have a washing machine in our new house, but a dryer is truly a luxury here.  I have learned how to judge the weather by looking for the mountains. If you cannot see the mountain, it is going to rain, no matter how pretty and sunny it is at that very moment.  My landlord calls it the Caribbean weather forecast and it has been accurate so far for letting our clothes dry.
This is our guava tree. 


It bears fruit year round and we are getting ready to have a TON of guava.  Good thing my children love guava jelly!!!  All the little green balls will grow into guavas and turn yellow and yummy!!
We also have several coconut trees or palm trees in our back yard. 
My favorite find are these.........kanips.
They are a fruit and are a juicy little morsel of sweet and sour.  They taste like sweet-tarts to me.  You bite into them to open them and they have this juicy orange center.
 


3 comments:

  1. Great environment! And your house looks very welcoming, even with the outgrowth of plants which seem to have fenced the house. It’s a good thing the previous owners didn’t remove those. So you can still benefit from it improving the house’s front and atmosphere as well. :D

    Petra ^.^

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  2. Oooh! You have a garden! Wow! You’re lucky to have found and purchased a property that has a beautiful yard. I hope you’ll be able to take care of all the plants there. Congrats on your new house!

    -Javier Bonnell

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  3. Wow! your house looks so awesome! What changes have you made so far? Who wouldn't love a house with a lot of space for a beautiful garden? I bet you're flowing with ideas on how are you going to decorate the garden!


    Leona Gladen

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