Welcome to the Bachelor Cafe

Ciò che si mangia con gusto non fa mai male.
What you eat with pleasure will never make you sick.

 On today's menu we have Curried Lentil Tomato Peas and Mushroom soup.

 Crisp bread Smart Balance and Ruby Red grapefruit.

Ingredients

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Add to a skillet and bring to a simmer. Prep time 10min. Two portions or one depending how hungry.

Finire tutto il pasto: Eat up!

Binge watching the PBS series Mr. Selfridge @Season2 episode 7

Where else do you put a pot of Dragons

Dragon Fruit update contd.

Where else do you put a pot of Dragons if not on a lofty perch?

Side shoots and a robust root system to boot! - Apr 2,2015

The Originals- Apr 2,2015

Dragon Fruit Update contd.

Fat and happy and will have to remove them soon to plant in the ground. - Mar20,2015

Do you think they know?

Dragon Fruit Timeline contd.

Do you think they know that they're about to be moved to surgery? - Feb8,2015

Severed at its broadest point to maximize it's rooting base. - Feb 8,2015

Added aquarium LED lighting and placed on a bed of gravel,no soil as not to rot. Note aerial roots.Feb20,2015

Roots had started to develop at base of cactus ready for soil. Growth tip narrowing due to lack of roots. -Mar 2,2015

Introduced to the late winter Florida sunshine and transition to the out of doors. Mar3,2015

Checking on a daily basis for too much sun and water as needed. Note the rich composted soil.
This is a tropical cactus and hope to produce fruit in two years.

Dragon Fruit Timeline

Dragon fruit with a deep magenta flesh purchased from grocery
store in November 2014. First time tasting one too and was not
that impressed with taste but otherwise a very exotic plant worth
the attempt to grow from seed.

Scrubbed the flesh from the tiny black seed and placed said seeds
into my Salton yogurt maker given to me by my brother Gordon.
Provided some new all cotton moisten pads to keep the seeds moist
but not drowning. This was on Nov 28 ,2014.

Planted sprouts Dec 3 ,2014

Dec 9,2014

First signs of actual cactus - Dec 17 ,2014

Since placed in soil lighting has been 24/7 - Dec 23 ,2014

Using compact fluorescence full spectrum lighting@6500k - Dec 30,2014

Keeping them hydrated is crucial. - Jan 10,2015

Willing to sleep with lights on being that this room is heated. - Jan 12,2015

Outdoors for four hours of winter sunlight if warm enough. - Jan 28,2015

TO BE CONTINUED ON NEXT POST

Rarely sighted Green Anole

Anolis carolinensis carolinensis — Northern Green Anole

Just learned something new in regards to
our Green Anoles. If they have what's called
dewflap that is strawberry red then it is as noted to the left in picture taken in my backyard.
Otherwise it is then a

Anolis carolinensis seminolus — Southern Green Anole which has a gray or green dewflap.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today's postings brought to with some music by Collective Soul - Youth (FULL ALBUM). - Enjoy!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BCVLCOZBiY

 

New plantings of Haworthia and Blue Eyed grass found in my neighbors yard.

Sisyrinchium angustifolium Blue Eyed grass - Apr1,2015

Haworthia fasciata v. variabilis- Apr1,2015

 Although their requirements couldn't be further apart they find themselves neighboring
at the same address bedded down with some charcoal.