Posted by alexandra_k on December 20, 2017, at 1:02:08
In reply to Re: to friends in California » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on December 10, 2017, at 18:11:13
Glad to hear your home is safe.
I'm doing alright. Summer is variable, here. Gets nice for a bit, then back to feeling like it's gonna snow. It's still a bit early. Will be nicer in January and February and the first couple weeks of March. I hope.
I am looking forward to the Marlborough cherries coming into season. They try and get them ripe for christmas, but they just don't. A week or two after and they are big as plums, nearly black in color, and cheap since they have a bunch of them to move all of a sudden. At least, that's what happened last year.
When I was in the US one of the students parents had an organic avocado farm somewhere in California. She brought some avocado's back with her after visiting and I'd never seen such large avocado's before. I think they were a different species (or whatever you call it) from the ones I'm used to seeing (imported green from who knows where). They were just amazing, though. We get a lot of Californian oranges, here, and I'm not sure why, since you would think we could get them from Australia... Guess not... You'd think we could get bananas from Australia, too, but they just will not hand them over. Sigh.
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