Longest day, shortest day
Jun. 21st, 2019 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaFor me, in summer, it's the longest day, and shaping to be another long, hot one; I love summer, or the thought of summer, but one can have too much of a good thing.
Still, one good thing summer has been bringing has been the mangoes from next-door-but-one's tree, thudding down into the front yard here - it's a big tree, and the houses are built very close together, so they fall into several yards, as well as into the lane..
I have been thriftily picking them up, the ones in the yard, not in the lane, and eating them, unless the ants have got to them first - or else when there's too many accumulated, I've been slicing them up and freezing the pulp. The ants get to quite a few, though, because a ripe mango falling on a brick-paved courtyard - well, you follow. But this morning, hooray! There were two, and with skin unbroken. :)
Still, one good thing summer has been bringing has been the mangoes from next-door-but-one's tree, thudding down into the front yard here - it's a big tree, and the houses are built very close together, so they fall into several yards, as well as into the lane..
I have been thriftily picking them up, the ones in the yard, not in the lane, and eating them, unless the ants have got to them first - or else when there's too many accumulated, I've been slicing them up and freezing the pulp. The ants get to quite a few, though, because a ripe mango falling on a brick-paved courtyard - well, you follow. But this morning, hooray! There were two, and with skin unbroken. :)
