"pure kona" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 May 2009 15:05:32 GMT, "brooklyn1"
> > wrote:
>
>>I know I've been missed but not to worry, I've been busy.
>>
>>Yesterday for the first time this season it dried out enough that I was
>>able
>>to mow my 4 acre back field for the first time, used to be a hay field and
>>it was already in seed, that takes a full day's labor every week just to
>>mow
>>and keep the forest from growing back.
>
> Beautiful!!! Where do you live Sheldon? Looks like mid-south? With
> Canadian geese. Gorgeous green color.

I live in NY's Catskills... and it's Canada geese. I've been to all the US
states except Hawaii... can't you build a tunnel... I ain't flying ever
again. I love the four distinct seasons. My brother retired to Florida,
he hates it, only two seasons there, hot and hotter.

> We live in Hawaii where we do not get that new spring green, and we
> saw that same green on a trip to M) last week, to visit family. That
> green is beautiful!!
>
> Trimming. We do have to prune each of our multi-thousand coffee
> trees once a year- just one branch, but we have over the year, figured
> out we could pile them high, instead of trimming them to bits, and
> within 3 years, they have decomposed.
>
> Thanks.
>
> aloha,
> Cea