Every time I sit down to write an entry, I am first startled by how long it has been since I've written, then apologise for not writing, as though the internet is an elderly aunt with whom I promised regular correspondence but she, knowing better, just shook her head, but I insisted that, no, this time I would write regularly, and she just smiled an irritating smile and said, we'll see, and now it turns out that she was right and knew me better than I thought and I've got to come up with a great excuse for not writing but I'm not going to try to have an excuse, just that I didn't write, but that I've been really busy...dang, that was an excuse, and we can't have that, now can we? So, what's been keeping us so busy that we couldn't add another 20 minutes of computer time to our day? Fruit.
We've decided to try new fruits. There are more things in the market that I don't recognize than I would have ever thought possible. Ever heard of a custard apple? It's about the size and shape of a nerf football, but with seeds. How about Fuyu? We had to ask how to eat it -- like an apple, they said, knowing that we would be miles away before we tried it. It looks like a tomato and tastes like crystallized pineapple, also called a Japanese Persimmon. Now we're waiting for the loquat tree to get ripe (I have NO idea what they're like, but there's a tree in the yard).
See?! We've been busy!
That's it, you ask, you've been busy with (scornful pause)...fruit?
Well, that's not all! We've also, um, been packing a lot of other stuff in, like work (did we mention that Kris has been promoted?), hockey (Kris plays at least twice weekly, me once), and running (with a club called the hash house harriers...you'll hear more on this later, no doubt), but I thought what would catch your interest was...fruit.
And now...more fun signs from Australia!
