Sailing And Selling

Went for a sail on the bay. Saw a navy ship in dry dock. A seagull followed us during a tack. I recently gave away over 300 avocados then found them on sale for 1.79 each....maybe we should open a roadside stand.

300 Avocados

Michelle and I decided to clean up the backyard a little. We called Trini, our favorite tree trimmer and ask him to help us out.

When we moved into our house ten years ago, one of the first things we noticed about the property was the beautiful avocado tree in the backyard. The house was build in 1939 and we are pretty sure the tree was planted around that time. The tree provides a lot of shade as well as plenty of avocados.

Trini spent the first couple of hours trimming the avocado tree. All of the work was done by hand, no power tools.

We asked him to lighten the canopy. Our goal was to provide some of the plants below with some additional light. Before and after photos are below.

and...

We had the tree trimmed during the month of December because we knew the avocados were ready to be picked. This afternoon we picked 14 bags of avocados. At aprox. 25 units per bag - we harvested around 300 avocados!

While we were at it, we asked Trini to trim up the palm trees. Things are looking pretty good!

Before And After

Below is a photo of the tractor after we cleaned it up. We also cut, sanded, and stained some blocks for it to carry. I think my parents bought this tractor for me when I was about eight years old.

Randomness

combo post. Went out to dinner with our friends Daniel and Richard....his card has a cat paw next to it so I added a Jack photo. Checked the surf and out was out of control so we went to a sports bar which had a cool sign on the jukebox during the Sunday football games. Had some Ice cream with Michelle. I cleaned up an old wooden tractor.