24 Thursday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, fruit, gardener, learning, mango, moments, nature, plants, tropical biome, widow
had fun in the Tropical Biome today checking on all the fruit…
saw cacao pods just beginning to grow…
also spotted jackfruit, star fruit, two bunches of bananas, and many breadfruit…
also spotted flowers on the mango, but a gardener advised the tree is too young to produce fruit, so likely they will die off…
I learn something new every time I am in the space;-)…
22 Thursday Feb 2024
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recently I’d seen an Instagram post about one of the trees in the Tropical Biome that was flowering…
the branches of the Kapok are bare, but at the very top of the tree, flowers were budding…
I was happy to spot it on our visit Tuesday…
there were lots of volunteers throughout the space and they provided a great deal of information particularly about some of the fruiting trees… we saw cacao pods, jackfruit, star fruit, breadfruit and the fingerlings of bananas…
we had a quick visit with the lead gardener as we discussed the three cacao trees, two of which currently have pods growing on them…
the Tropical Biome is really beginning to feel like the old Conservatory with all the lush growth…
so blessed to have this amazing space to spend time in on a regular basis;-)…
15 Friday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, delicious, fruit, Ivory, meatballs, mix, moments, palak paneer, smoothie, treat, widow
today’s meals seemed an interesting mix…
my breakfast smoothie was a bit different than usual… included banana and strawberries which was a treat as I don’t usually include fruit…
lunch was at Ivory and they had some of my favourites at the buffet… palak paneer, vegetable pakora, and lamb… lovely…
supper felt a bit like a snack… had gazpacho and some delicious meatballs that I dipped in a homemade sauce…
not sure if I stayed under my calorie count for the day, lol…
19 Thursday Feb 2015
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today’s soup was a hit… next time I wouldn’t put the cilantro in until the very end and I would strain out the lemongrass… it was a bit fibrous-y… great flavour and the tofu tasted fine… it was called Tom Kha Gai (Thai coconut soup) and I would happily make it again…
saw the doctor this afternoon… she was pleased with my blood sugar numbers… have lost twenty pounds since the end of November and she is pleased with my exercise regime… I was very excited when she took my blood pressure and it was 120 over 70… woo hoo…
had supper out at the Clay Oven with my son-in-law and picked up a few things at Costco…
trying some different options for an evening snack… tonight I am having an orange and some walnuts… fruit is back on the list of things I can have, yum…
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