Weekend- To the Farmers' Market to socialize older pups

The three blue babies born here on August 13, 2018 are growing up.  The biggest girl is called Mele and the smallest girl is Gigi.  The boy is Kip and all are blues.  They are a VERY affectionate litter, giving kisses away lavishly.  They are brave and have not been afraid to go out into the yard on the grass and look around for trouble from the very beginning.  They are climbing up over rocks, into heliconia forests and into our laps as we sit on the grass watching them and hoping they don't bite our toes!  Actually, they aren't horrid on the toe biting bit, but it does happen.  They are puppies after all!

Nancy Adkins comes down many of the days.  Since I have had to chop down banana trees often lately, she uses that as an excuse to come visit the pups.  Her goats love banana trees, so they come down to take greens back to the goats and get a chance to smell puppy breath and experience some of the best puppy kisses imaginable.  Did you know that a banana tree does not live through more than one life of making bananas?  We chop down the tree to get the bananas before the birds and the rats do, and to let the little baby banana trees grow up from around the base of the tree that just gave up its banana bunch.  The baby trees are called keikis.  Keiki means baby in Hawaiian.

The puppies favorite place to play outside is under my mature macadamia nut tree.  It makes wonderful shade.  Did you know that macadamia nuts are about the hardest nut to crack?   We have a magically wonderful nut cracker that makes it very easy to shell them.  Mmmmmmmm.  We took about 230 mac nuts to the National Specialty to put into the bags.  Some people told me that they had tried to crack them with their teeth.  I'll bet that hurt!  The right tool makes quite a difference.  They are extremely easy to crack with the right cracker
!Early baby picture.
    Not much today from the curmudgeon.  Have a great weekend!  I will.