Terry and I cleaned the orchids patch yesterday, planning to add more different kind orchids. That was the biggest job we did yesterday, well, it still took us the whole morning.

Today Terry cut the grass and I harvested some food.

I picked some string beans, gave some to our friend and going to make some pickled bean. Talk about pickled long bean, I have a little story to share with you.

I met an Ahka lady on a cargo boat which carried full load of garlic on Mekong River from China to Thailand, she was the cook for the boat crew. Our transportation fee included 3 meals with the crew, those meals were very simple, but they were sure taste good. I’ll never forget those meals.

We were the only two women on the boat, so we chatted. It only took us a few minutes to find out we speak same language, I felt like a sister toward to her.

There were always a dish of pickle on the table every meal, she made it. It was so good, I had to get the recipe, she taught me her tricks. Back to Hawai’i, it didn’t take me too long to start experiment her recipe, and I succeeded. Terry give me a new nick name ” pickle lady”.

Later I picked some Po ha ( goose berry) and trimmed the bush.

Then I went to look for some Avo under the tree, nothing on the ground but lots on the tree. During Avo season, we can find a lot of Avo on the ground everyday, and we always tried to give them away. We are so used to have them around, now we can’t find any, kind miss it.  So I picked some from low branches, their skin are not too shinning, hope they will ripe.

I walked by mountain apple tree, it was loaded. I picked some for Sonny, he likes it.