hiya, everybody!

good morning, Kelly, Sarah, Barb, Sandy, Soxie, Weave, Deb, Debbie, Finny, Trish, Sue, Pearlie, Tara, and Frankie-me-boyo!

just now setting down at the computer, to catch up with your daily lives...

went to the dawn wholesale market, and got a GREAT haul...

bulk cabbage (100 lb sack) was going for US 25 cents a lb, so I grabbed a whole sack.

and I got 30 lbs of lettuce, at 50 cents a lb.

half-a-dozen BIG bunches of callalou for 50 cents each, 2 dozen buns of celery, and a 50 lb sack of carrots.

got there so early I got my stuff right off the farmers' trucks, made them very happy, because they didn't have to clean or display it all.

I also got to clean up after their early customers, scoring five 50 lb sacks of leaf trimmings. (YAY !!! )

then, went home, did two hours of sorting and bagging, and filling our fridge, and the WHOLE guesthouse fridge too (glad we have no guests at the moment, lol!)

everything's all cleaned and put away, and hubby's busy processing two ducks for a special restaurant order (they just love having organic free-range ducks to put on their menu.)

so, we haven't even had BREAKFAST yet, just two cups of coffee each.

but all the CRITTERS are fed, and VERY happy... my geese and ducks and chickens just LOVE me when I return from market morning... hee hee hee!

we have collected FIVE goose eggs so far, (3 from Gwyn, and 2 from Larissa), and people are LINING up to request goslings, we have had half-a-dozen inquiries already.

I keep telling myself, "Don't count your goosies BEFORE they hatch!"

but I can't help getting excited, as they sell for US $35 each, so we're very hopeful.

the six new guinea pig babies are doing VERY well, healthy, and hopping around, and the 13 turkey babies are chipper and bright-eyed.

we have had several days of rain in a row, and last night was the straw that broke the camel's back in the mango orchard, as soaked HEAVY dead limbs came CRASHING down during the night all over.

these trees are mature, over 50 feet tall, so the view is a little different this morning... with massive branches and twig litter everywhere.

also, the pond is full and overflowing, and the rain gauge shows we got 5 inches of rain last night.

thus, life goes on, in the rainforest.