Wow, you truly have an amazing garden!!! Lovely photos. Enjoy! I have questions about your soil if you have any tips for me as I try to improve my gardens soil. I just wrote a post about it on my blog if you would like to help! Thanks!
Let me say this. I previously owned a brand new house – new development in a border of a dessert. The soil in the backyard was clay. We started mixing the clay with chicken manure. The the topsoil was the soil used for potting plants. After planting, water accordingly. And add fertilizer accordingly. Some are for roses, or citrus, or all purpose. I spray the orange and fruit tree often, so not just depend on the water from the soil. The heat may get the fruit dry and fell prematurely. That’s all I have done so far. Hope it helps!
Thank you so much! We benefit 4 months of fresh orange juice, and a few hundred plums. The grapes are not doing too well. I’ll try something different next year for the grapes. Thank you for reading!
What a good timing to ask me that question. It’s almost like a confirmation to me of what I’m thinking about doing. I’m amazed and thankful for your timely question. Now I know I’m on the right track. I talked with one blogger back and forth about that. The original hostess stopped hosting. So another blogger and I will start our own 52 weeks… I’ll host it, she is the co-host, and fill in when I’m not available. I need to find out m pingback works properly. One of my participation of challenges didn’t go to the hosting site even 5 attempts to submit. Somehow she didn’t get it. So the next few day, I’ll do a testing post with her. Then we’ll start in 1st week of August.
Ah! How wonderful that you will be offering that gift to the community, and that you are collaborating with another blogger to share the burden. So kind.
Thank you Sharon! It’s been very hot. We painted 80% the house. Just finished painting last night. Now I need to recuperate before putting things back. I was going to continue my own “52 Weeks of Thankfulness” but I picked other prompts and challenges to participate. How have you been doing?
Oh wonderful Miriam. We’ve been visiting family in Georgia then set off for Florida. I thought I would blog, but really did not have time. And to be honest. It was nice to just hang out with family and visit old friends. I plan to continue my 52 Weeks of Thankfulness this Friday. But I think I’ll switch gears a bit and simply provide a photo with a small quote from now on. I’ve done some, but I plan to continue that way. This way I can work on a few projects too. We’re happen to be painting the inside of our house. Lol.
Hi Miriam that sounds like fun to team up. If you would like to create a logo that sounds fine. I would love to help if you’ll share what you have in mind. 🙂
Sharon, sorry, your comment has been sitting in my spam. When I started, in addition to Bernadette’s logo, I also post my own logo. To me, it gives a reflective mood. But we can share ideas, you may want it to be more cheerful. Shall we do it on Thursday? We can still use “52 Weeks of Thankfulness” and add Thursday. 52 weeks to me means year round, it doesn’t mean end at 52nd week. So we don’t have to count Week 1, 2…
What other ideas do you have? We can start, and invite people to join. But then it means either you or I will host it and have a round up on Wednesday listing all that join. We don’t have to do round up if no one joins.
I remember your logo now…yes, that will work perfect;y. I love reflective thinking, and the image is lovely. I can invite people, and will we be sharing their blogs as Bernadette did or simply listing their sites? I know she used the Frog Link, but I would have to do more research on that…a quick search just brings up “Frog Blog.” And that may be a bit time consuming for me at this time. They could simply make a comment in the weekly blog invite that shares their “weekly” blog. We could keep as that or “reblog or “wordpress” their blog to the host site–which may encourage them to share as it simplifies where to read all the shared blogs.
It seems best to have one site to host the blogs if we are sharing them as Bernadette did and the other person to help steer people to the host site. I am okay if it is your site. I am certainly happy to co-host and could “fill in” with commentary whenever you may need me to and if you want to have me as a guest blogger. Or this can be vice-versa as well. What do you think? Should we simply list their blog or share the entire post?
I think simply list their blog is fine. I participate a lot of challenges. Frank from Tuesday photo makes a couple sentences commenting each post. Cee doesn’t make a list. Other participants can check on the pingback if they want to see other posts. In fact most of the hosts just leave to pingback in the comment section without doing anything. A dew hosts comment on my entries. One host didn’t even acknowledge my entry. So there wide spectrum of ding it.
I don’t mind hosting it, simply my site has more viewers that I have built up. You could be both a guest blogger and co-host. I have to test the pingback. Frank moderate the entries then approve the pingback. Cee doesn’t moderate, so the pingback shows up the same time as my entry goes to the comment. After we do it for awhile, we can make it part of wordpress. The Tanka I’m doing, the host makes it part of wordpress, so is Cee’s photo challenges.
Hi Sharon, I want to do a test post with you. I’ll do a post, you do one (could be just a photo) and pingback, and leave your link in my comment. Let me see if it goes through smoothly. If it goes well, we could start next Thursday August 3. What do you think?
Miriam I do like the countdown, and I plan to start at week 21 where I left off. I think for people reading they do not mind as much, and this is why I have switched mine to start with what I am thankful for in the title first. In my last one, I titled it Simple Hellos; 52 Weeks of Thankfulness, Week 20. I could also list the count in the blog. I just thought of that, but I do like knowing what week I am in. How about you what do you think you will title? Since you are the host maybe it does not really matter so much and might invite others to simply jump in at some point. Same for me, I could list in my blog versus the title. I will have to think on that. 🙂
I just found out the Bernadette’s son Andrew passed away on June 7. I reblog her announcement. So I think we should wait for awhile, just try to be sensitive, since she started the 52 weeks, short by 3 weeks to finish the year. Dhe must be having a hard time. Do you think we should wait?
Miriam it may be best to think of a different name and perhaps wait a bit. Maybe 52 Weeks of Reflection? You mentioned your log is focused on reflection so that might be nice. There are lots of 52 Weeks Challenges on the web and it might be best to start something new entirely. And I do wonder if we should wait just a bit. I’ll let you think on that and let me know about the name change.
How about just naming the challenge Thursday Reflections? That’s short and sweet and anyone can feel free to jump in at anytime? Then no shared relationship in the name exist, and we can be respectful at the same time.
You just followed my second blog! I’m using that blog to write memoir and include the poems I wrote for my family members. I haven’t spend too much time in it yet!
Thank you, Suguna! The orange tree must be more than 30 years old. It was here when we bought the house. I planted the other trees a few years ago. I’m so happy with them!
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Your garden looks delightful!
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Thank you very much, Neha!!
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You’re welcome, Miriam 🙂
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🙂 ❤ 🙂
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simply Fabulous !
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Thank you so much!
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Amazing, looks like you’ve worked hard to cultivate a beautiful garden!
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Yes, it’s hard work, but also therapeutic! *¨*•♥•*¨*
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well said. best wishes for you
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Thank you so much!
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Wow, you truly have an amazing garden!!! Lovely photos. Enjoy! I have questions about your soil if you have any tips for me as I try to improve my gardens soil. I just wrote a post about it on my blog if you would like to help! Thanks!
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Let me say this. I previously owned a brand new house – new development in a border of a dessert. The soil in the backyard was clay. We started mixing the clay with chicken manure. The the topsoil was the soil used for potting plants. After planting, water accordingly. And add fertilizer accordingly. Some are for roses, or citrus, or all purpose. I spray the orange and fruit tree often, so not just depend on the water from the soil. The heat may get the fruit dry and fell prematurely. That’s all I have done so far. Hope it helps!
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What a wonderful garden! You must have a green thumb. 😉
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Thank you so much! I’m proud to inherit my dad’s trait and to remember him by gardening.
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Beautiful and very transforming pictures!
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Thank you so much! We benefit 4 months of fresh orange juice, and a few hundred plums. The grapes are not doing too well. I’ll try something different next year for the grapes. Thank you for reading!
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Lovely photos. So rich and abundant in color, and I can almost smell the fruit. 🙂 – How are your 52 weeks of gratitude going?
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What a good timing to ask me that question. It’s almost like a confirmation to me of what I’m thinking about doing. I’m amazed and thankful for your timely question. Now I know I’m on the right track. I talked with one blogger back and forth about that. The original hostess stopped hosting. So another blogger and I will start our own 52 weeks… I’ll host it, she is the co-host, and fill in when I’m not available. I need to find out m pingback works properly. One of my participation of challenges didn’t go to the hosting site even 5 attempts to submit. Somehow she didn’t get it. So the next few day, I’ll do a testing post with her. Then we’ll start in 1st week of August.
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Ah! How wonderful that you will be offering that gift to the community, and that you are collaborating with another blogger to share the burden. So kind.
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I have a lot to learn about hosting, and I need to learn quickly! Now I’m going to m watercolor class. Talk later! thank you for talking!
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This is soooo goodd!!!
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Thank you so much! We still have 30 oranges and 20 plums, then will wait for next summer!
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Wow!! Abundance of fruits in your garden shows your hard work and love behind them, may I have some too 😍
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Sending you some orange juicy and sweet plums! ♥*♥*♥
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Ahh! Thank You both are my favorite! Cheers!! 😍
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The second crop of the oranges are growing nicely, so they keep coming!
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Ahhh…I love your fruit trees! They are absolutely gorgeous! I hope you are doing well and enjoying your summer.
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Thank you Sharon! It’s been very hot. We painted 80% the house. Just finished painting last night. Now I need to recuperate before putting things back. I was going to continue my own “52 Weeks of Thankfulness” but I picked other prompts and challenges to participate. How have you been doing?
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Oh wonderful Miriam. We’ve been visiting family in Georgia then set off for Florida. I thought I would blog, but really did not have time. And to be honest. It was nice to just hang out with family and visit old friends. I plan to continue my 52 Weeks of Thankfulness this Friday. But I think I’ll switch gears a bit and simply provide a photo with a small quote from now on. I’ve done some, but I plan to continue that way. This way I can work on a few projects too. We’re happen to be painting the inside of our house. Lol.
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Maybe we can do 52 Weeks together. Would you like to logo. I can create one with your input!
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Hi Miriam that sounds like fun to team up. If you would like to create a logo that sounds fine. I would love to help if you’ll share what you have in mind. 🙂
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Sharon, sorry, your comment has been sitting in my spam. When I started, in addition to Bernadette’s logo, I also post my own logo. To me, it gives a reflective mood. But we can share ideas, you may want it to be more cheerful. Shall we do it on Thursday? We can still use “52 Weeks of Thankfulness” and add Thursday. 52 weeks to me means year round, it doesn’t mean end at 52nd week. So we don’t have to count Week 1, 2…
What other ideas do you have? We can start, and invite people to join. But then it means either you or I will host it and have a round up on Wednesday listing all that join. We don’t have to do round up if no one joins.
https://theshowerofblessings.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/52-weeks-of-thankfulness-week-1/
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I remember your logo now…yes, that will work perfect;y. I love reflective thinking, and the image is lovely. I can invite people, and will we be sharing their blogs as Bernadette did or simply listing their sites? I know she used the Frog Link, but I would have to do more research on that…a quick search just brings up “Frog Blog.” And that may be a bit time consuming for me at this time. They could simply make a comment in the weekly blog invite that shares their “weekly” blog. We could keep as that or “reblog or “wordpress” their blog to the host site–which may encourage them to share as it simplifies where to read all the shared blogs.
It seems best to have one site to host the blogs if we are sharing them as Bernadette did and the other person to help steer people to the host site. I am okay if it is your site. I am certainly happy to co-host and could “fill in” with commentary whenever you may need me to and if you want to have me as a guest blogger. Or this can be vice-versa as well. What do you think? Should we simply list their blog or share the entire post?
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I think simply list their blog is fine. I participate a lot of challenges. Frank from Tuesday photo makes a couple sentences commenting each post. Cee doesn’t make a list. Other participants can check on the pingback if they want to see other posts. In fact most of the hosts just leave to pingback in the comment section without doing anything. A dew hosts comment on my entries. One host didn’t even acknowledge my entry. So there wide spectrum of ding it.
I don’t mind hosting it, simply my site has more viewers that I have built up. You could be both a guest blogger and co-host. I have to test the pingback. Frank moderate the entries then approve the pingback. Cee doesn’t moderate, so the pingback shows up the same time as my entry goes to the comment. After we do it for awhile, we can make it part of wordpress. The Tanka I’m doing, the host makes it part of wordpress, so is Cee’s photo challenges.
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That sounds great Miriam. Simple is best for me. Just let me know when you’d like to get started.
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Hi Sharon, I want to do a test post with you. I’ll do a post, you do one (could be just a photo) and pingback, and leave your link in my comment. Let me see if it goes through smoothly. If it goes well, we could start next Thursday August 3. What do you think?
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Sounds great I can submit a photo…thank you!
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I’ll do a test post tomorrow and you do a post with pingback! Hope we can get it going next week!!!
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Okay. I’ll be sure to embed your site name/applicable post in the logo as well as the comments. 🙂
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Do you like the original “52 Weeks of Thankfulness” (without Week 1, 2…) or “52 Weeks of Thankfulness Thursday”?
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Miriam I do like the countdown, and I plan to start at week 21 where I left off. I think for people reading they do not mind as much, and this is why I have switched mine to start with what I am thankful for in the title first. In my last one, I titled it Simple Hellos; 52 Weeks of Thankfulness, Week 20. I could also list the count in the blog. I just thought of that, but I do like knowing what week I am in. How about you what do you think you will title? Since you are the host maybe it does not really matter so much and might invite others to simply jump in at some point. Same for me, I could list in my blog versus the title. I will have to think on that. 🙂
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Another way would be having the date after the title, I like to have a way of counting or differentiate from week to week!
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I just found out the Bernadette’s son Andrew passed away on June 7. I reblog her announcement. So I think we should wait for awhile, just try to be sensitive, since she started the 52 weeks, short by 3 weeks to finish the year. Dhe must be having a hard time. Do you think we should wait?
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Miriam it may be best to think of a different name and perhaps wait a bit. Maybe 52 Weeks of Reflection? You mentioned your log is focused on reflection so that might be nice. There are lots of 52 Weeks Challenges on the web and it might be best to start something new entirely. And I do wonder if we should wait just a bit. I’ll let you think on that and let me know about the name change.
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I’m thinking!!
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How about just naming the challenge Thursday Reflections? That’s short and sweet and anyone can feel free to jump in at anytime? Then no shared relationship in the name exist, and we can be respectful at the same time.
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Reflections is a little bit broad. Thankfulness has a focus. What do you think of Thursday Thankfulness, date?
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I can see that point too. 😉
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I’ll let you say the last word. Sum up the thoughts and decide on one. I’ll do a test post after that. 🙂
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You just followed my second blog! I’m using that blog to write memoir and include the poems I wrote for my family members. I haven’t spend too much time in it yet!
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Yes I did. A wonderful idea to share your life. No worries about the time tended to it. I completely understand. 🙂
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I just found a whole bunch of age old letters and photos. I need to sort them out.
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Wow, what a beautiful garden 😊
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Thank you, Elaine! I hope you slept through last night! Did you wake up early and paint?
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Such a lovely garden you have, Miriam. Your passion for gardening is evident from the lovely fruits of your efforts.
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Yes, the delight of seeing the fruits is my reward!!
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Are these all your fruits? Amazing!
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Yes, they are in my backyard.Thank you for your comment!
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Yum yum garden. Very beautiful and indeed edible garden reflects all the hard work that most go into it daily…xx
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Thank you so much, hard work but enjoyable and rewarding!
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Beautiful words and images. What a lovely yard to have!
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Yes, thank you, give me something enjoyable to do!
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Wow they look so good. You must have hot weather, my apples are about half your siz
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Yes, we have hot weather! The apples are still small. It’s the camera!
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What a wonderful giving garden, the fruit looks delicious Miriam! ☺🍊🍇
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Thank you, Xenia! Experiment what works, what doesn’t for years. Only the orange tree is original before we moved in!
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☺💜 xxx
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🙂 xoxo
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Beautiful garden….
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Thank you so much!
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This is beautiful! I wish i was living next to you🙂!
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I invite you to live next to me to help me eat some of the fruits. Two of us can’t eat fast enough, so we have give some away!
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Thanks 😀, that’s really kind !
and what you are doing is really great
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Thank you so much!
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The grapes and apples look devine, Mrs Green Fingers!
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Thank you, to remember my dad with the green fingers!
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wow what a beauty of garden and perfectly maintained
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That’s like a hobby or enjoyment!
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Wow amazing, it would be amazing to be able to pick fruits from your own garden
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Thank you, Suguna! The orange tree must be more than 30 years old. It was here when we bought the house. I planted the other trees a few years ago. I’m so happy with them!
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Enjoy 😄😄😄
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Thank you! ♥*♥*♥
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Oh My……..what a beautiful garden you have Miriam!!!
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Thank you so much! We picked all the oranges, because the second crop is growing!
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Beautiful garden and the fruits look luscious… Yummm
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Thank you so much! Both the oranges and plums are very sweet!
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Oh yes they look so goooood
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Thank you!!!
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Wow..
Beautiful garden Mirriam..
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Thank you so much! Nothing is like home grown fruits!
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What beautiful fruit!😊
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Thank you! I do have a whole bunch!
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