Everytime Daddy comes to visit us here in Davao, he stays with at my sister Crislyn’s place because they have bigger space. When we are still living in one subdivision, he comes to us to clean the yard when he’s done with Ate’s yard. He cannot just sit down. He loves to work and work. I remember when my sister is still living in an apartment, he was bored to death because there is no yard. Since he comes to visit once in a year, we see to it that he enjoys the food that he missed when he’s at his farm. When he’s here we should not run out of black coffee and sugar too so that is what we pick first when we go grocery shopping. Read more… »
How to grow bitter gourd
Posted on 2009 under Donald, Ella, expressions, treasured moments | 2 Comments14 Dec
—is easy. Buy a mature bitter gourd that you can use for your Pinakbet or other dish. Cut it in half and remove the seeds. Set it aside while you do the cooking. When you’re done, throw the vegetable peelings with the seeds in your backyard and wait until it sprouts.
This is ampalaya (bitter gourd) from the neighbor’s backyard. Manang Inday’s sister owned the house and they are not staying here so we are didn’t steal it. hehehehe. And I think it was from the Pinakbet that Manang Inday cooked several weeks ago. I noticed a little fruit hanging on a tree while I was doing the laundry last December 2 and I was very thrilled because we didn’t plant anything there…but we dumped something there. LOL
Priceless smiles with his grandkids.
Yesterday, Ella played with two boys (I guess they are around eight or nine). When I woke up this morning, they are already on the adjacent lot waiting for Ella. I went outside to bring out the laundry that hasn’t dried and saw the two boys and two girls! So now it was multiplied and it scared me. I am afraid there will be 8 kids tomorrow. 
I told her this is not our house and she shouldn’t call the kids over to play. But Ella didn’t call them, they just appeared from nowhere. Maybe from the house at the back. The girls were also the same age as the boys I guess. What else could you expect for a girl who hasn’t played with REAL kids? Read more… »
