Going to Town, Part Three

Are you enjoying yourself at Lydgate Park? Uh oh...I'm getting a little sunburned (that usually only takes 15 minutes), so we better take one last dip and head home.

I love this road. It looks like Gilligan's Island, doesn't it? If The Professor could've made asphalt, Gilligan's little bamboo car with the grass roof would've been in the next lane over. I loved that show when I was little. I wanted to be MaryAnne. Remember her banana cream pies? I would've married The Professor if I was MaryAnne. I had a big crush on The Professor. Who would you have been? And who would you have married--The Professor, The Skipper, or Gilligan...or Mr. Howell if he wasn't already taken?


Funny, I did sort of marry a guy like The Professor and end up living on a tropical island. But my husband was the one who always wanted to live in Hawaii, not me. His mother once showed me an essay he wrote when he was eleven years old about wanting to be the king of his own tropical island. His adolescent vision, of course, included skantily clad slave girls fanning him with palm fronds and feeding him fruit by hand. (This was 1960 and I'm sure the teacher must've passed that essay around the teacher's lounge a few times!) And here we are! We have asphalt, but no slave girls. Personally, I think it was a good trade-off...unless slave girls do windows--then maybe I'll let them feed him fruit. I hate washing windows.

Looks like the kids are out playing at Kapahi Ballpark. Nice day for it.

Ooohh! Banana trees. This is where the Banana Lady lives. We better stop and see if she has any fruit for our dinner tonight.

I don't know this lady's name that lives down the road from me, but she's always got a garage full of fruit and flowers for sale. I call her the Banana Lady because she mostly has bananas of all different varieties! Finger bananas, Puerto Rican, red, apple bananas (which taste just like green apples); there are a lots of different kinds of bananas! I tried to get her picture, but she's pretty shy. You weigh your own fruit and leave money if she's not around. She's a real sweetheart.

Unfortunately, it looks like we got here too late. Not much fruit left, just flowers. Too bad we didn't have time to stop at the ULTIMATE fruit stand, Banana Joe's Fruit Stand in Kilauea. My quilter friend Cynthia and her husband, Banana Joe, are the owners. Cynthia and Joe also happen to be the parents of lovely Angela, who is my son's girlfriend. (Did you catch all those links and still make your way back?? Wow...your Mai Tai's must be wearing off...)

Ah well, we'll see if we have anything for dinner in our own garden.

My husband's garden, with no slave girls. He grows a lot of things, but it's a constant battle with the fruit flies. Yes, they like vegetables, too. We must grow tomatoes, zucchini, squash, peppers--anything succulent--in that screen house because the fruit flies are just terrible around here. Tropical fruits are more fruit -fly resistant, so they are easier to grow than Mainland-type fruits and vegetables.

This little pineapple is not quite ready yet:

And the mangoes are just little blooms right now, but here is a picture of one of our gorgeous mangoes last September. I think the colors are just beautiful, don't you?

Now that we're home, I remembered something I wanted to show you. It IS UFO Friday, after all. I put last Friday's UFO in the "save" bin because I decided what I wanted to do with it (more details later). Here's this Friday's UFO, which is an easier decision than last week's UFO:

The Einstein Coat by Sally Mellville. I can't believe I ever wanted to knit this coat. It must've been before the hot flashes arrived. I didn't get very far with this Lion Homespun, mainly because the feel of the knitted fabric creeps me out. It feels like I'm wearing a poodle skin. And look at the picture of this coat! Not only is it unflattering, it's a hundred years worth of boring garter stitch! No wonder it's been a UFO for a year. An unflattering poodle coat--GONE. I frogged it. I actually took a picture of the yarn pile, but I didn't want you to have to wait for a picture of a pile of yarn to download, so I frogged the picture, too. I'm on a roll! Gone, baby, gone! Whoo hooo!

This has been a fun day! Thanks for coming along. I have a class to prepare, so I won't be posting tomorrow. The next post from me will be the Saturday evening "Hawaiian Rainbow Basket Giveaway" results post, which will probably appear in your time zone on Sunday morning. Good luck to you!