JUST DESSERT - NOT CARPET CLEANING

[Cairnswun]

Hope you guys are handling the extreme cold weather okay over there.

My supplies (food), have been getting run down due to the trouble 'n strife still being away.

I like to run out all the old tucker that gets shoved to the back of the pantry/fridge.

Done pretty well this time.

But I got no dessert for after dinner tonight.

CRIKEY !!!!!!

So, I've been watching the fruit on my Papaya tree for the last three weeks, and today's the day to claim some.

Ya gotta get onto these before the flying foxes come around at night and chew them.





(Burp), the one on the right was very tasty.


Ahh, it's tough living in the tropics, but someone has to.

[encapman]

Half of the US is snowed under, and you come 'round with your tales of the tropics. You're a mean man Shorty. A mean man indeed.

P.S. Here's a shot I took down at the Gulf this week...

Looks like I'm a mean man too!

[jtmellon]

I say we buy Shorty an English dictionary . What the ***** is a Flying Fox? Sounds like something from an old Hammer Horror Movie.

[SLOTOOLS]

I went to Kauai few months ago and on a couple adventures we ate native Guava, papaya and avocados right off the trees- very cool. Really great but there is no place like home....

[Cairnswun]

I'm sorry

NOT REALLY

A Flying Fox (black) is also known as a fruit bat 'cos the little devils come around between dusk & dawn and bite into most any fruit that is nearly ripe and ready for picking.

They are a major pest to the fruit growing industry but our typical guv-urn-mint lists them as a protected species, (all one billion of them), I'll say no more on this.

One thing I was not aware of, they do have a natural predator in the Sea Eagle, (big white eagle that has big wings and sharp talons & even sharper beak).

http://www.news.com.au/national/sea-eagl...6418788839

Home is where the heart is, or wherever I lay my head to rest.