Archive for the ‘Landscaping’ Category

I’ve said it before, but I’m not sure if I said it here. The summer time in Puerto Rico to me is all about work, fresh fruit/vegetables and planting. This weekend was a great weekend. I got tons of yard work done, Summer and I planted a bunch of new plants and we got dumped [...]

Tags: Compost, DIY, Food, fruit, garden, Gardening, Plants, vegetables, Yard

So, we’re not hippies, but we like to do things that are going to help our family sustain our lifestyle. My old polyester resin surfboards will out last Sydneys kids lives, I use red ant killer because those little bastards do no good at all and deserve to die a slow horrible death BUT we [...]

Tags: garden, pictures, trees, Yard

I don’t have to tell you guys that Summer and I are very into our landscaping and building not just our house, but creating a really cool tropical landscape. One of the things to deal with living in Puerto Rico are the termites. Termites are everywhere. Termites have eaten their way through gardening equipment handles, [...]

Tags: citrus, Gardening, Landscaping, pvc, Yard

We’ve planted several dozen (50ish) citrus, exotic fruit and avocado trees on our property, and while many of them are flourishing and doing well, unfortunately we keep losing trees to careless weedwackers. Recently we’ve lost a canepa, tangerine, kumquat and avocado in the battle that is maintaining our property. No bueno!! We made another trip [...]

Tags: banco popular, banks, Mortgage, Puerto Rico, Small Print

I am too busy to go into a big detailed and researched story on Banco Popular and how it got started in Puerto Rico. What I can tell you is this, don’t open an account there. My experience with them in the past two months has convinced me it’s time to change banks, and now [...]

I was moving dirt around the property today and walked passed the starfruit tree we planted 16 months or so ago. To my surprise, there were a bunch of little baby starfruits! Stefan and I noticed that the star fruit tree had flowered about a month ago, but we wern’t expecting to get starfruits so [...]

It’s official, Summer and I are tree huggers. We are spending the majority of our house work every week working in the yard on our garden, fighting back the Jungle (I have the upper hand for the first time since we moved in) and figuring out the layout of our land. If you don’t believe [...]

I have been in San Diego for the past 45 days (working 16 hour days) and I can’t tell you how good it is to finally be home!! Since I was gone for such a long stretch, I can really see the changes in the landscaping and I can tell that the daily yard work [...]

After a few hours of grass cutting, weed eating and weed pulling, the house is really looking good these days. Rainy seasons downpours combined with the hard work Summer and I have been putting in on the daily basis is really starting to pay off. You can see how the lawn looked 7 full days [...]

Here is a pretty bouquet I made from clipping from the yard! I clipped some red and yellow heliconias, deep pink ginger flowers, areca palm frans and a giant tahitian torch ginger flower (from Mark). I got the idea after trimming up the front planters and thinking that it was a waste to throw away [...]