My Bodilicious BODIs ...
It's cold ....... it's gloomy ....... it's raining ...... current just come back ..... after 2 1/2 hours ...... and my neighbour played her piano for the full 2 1/2 hours ...... but ...... today's still a good day ...... cuz it's my bodis birthday ...... well .... their 3 month anniversary really ..... so .....
Happy Bodi-day to them
Happy Bodi-day to them
Happy Bodi-day Dear Dodi, Toni, Codi, Rudi, Soni and Mini
Happy Bodi-day to them
(oh .... and haven't forgotten you Jodi)
Remember when meh bodis get maljo ...... and dey wasn't lookin too good ...... well ..... like a good mummy ....... I nursed them back to health ...... wit some good ole TLC ..... and fertilizer!
Today ...... they are exactly 3 months old (which is like 15 human years!) ...... and ..... there are exactly 3 bodis on dem
...... big, bigger and biggest!
A few months ago ...... maybe around the same time I 'sowed my seeds' ...... I began noticing articles in the newspapers ...... about gardening ...... specifically ...... growing veggies ...... and tho ah never really read any ...... I did keep a few ...... for future reference ....... but ...... where I lacked in theory ...... I certainly made up in practical ...... cuz from personal experience with my bodis ...... I learned that ...... they grow real fast ...... from birth tuh bearin ...... in just 3 months! ...... dey could get sick real easy ....... dey didn't really need anyting tuh climb on ...... and dey were OK ...... wit ah lil water, sunlight, fertilizer ....... and good conversation
This project ..... turned out to be ..... very fun ...... cuz other than the obvious benefits ...... i.e. growing food ...... and learning about the actual plant ..... and the growth process ..... and acquiring a new level of responsibility ..... dat comes wit nurturing a living thing blah, blah, blah ....... I also learned something about ME ..... I learned that I too ...... was capable of becoming one of 'those' ....... a newbie mummy! ...... yuh know de creature?! ..... de one who does talk bout dey chile 24/7 ....... well ...... is only when people started zoning out on me ...... mid sentence ..... dat I realised ....... dat I was now one ...... cuz I too ..... would talk about my bodis ALL DE TIME!!! ...... no matter what de topic was ...... my bodis always factored in ....... I wuz gorn clear ...... wuz bodi on meh cell ...... as de wallpaper picture ...... bodi on meh laptop starrin on de desktop ....... and when ah open meh wallet ..... who pic yuh tink fallin out ...... wuz bodi on meh keychain ...... and all up in meh email too ..... now bodi on meh blog ..... enjoyin dey sixth or so mention! .... de only place dey eh reach yet ...... is on somebody 'friends' list ....... in facebook!! ...... ah never thought ah coulda become one of 'those'! .... but it was real easy tuh get hook!
Anyway ...... I'm seriously considering ...... sweet peppers ...... or tomatoes next ...... but ....... while I continue to procrastinate ....... check out my pictorial below ...... of the life and times ...... of my bodilicious bodis:
April 18 - The day little bodis began to sprout ...
April 20 - Just two days later ...... the crazy growth spurt begins!
May 2 - Two weeks later ..... from tissue in bottle ...... tuh soil in trough!
May 11 - A little over a week later ...... they are gorgeous!!!
May 18 - Another week later (and exactly one month after germination) ..... maljo sets in
..... all the leaves started to get gross brown spots ..... and some turned yellow ..... it was not pretty!
May 23 - Five days later ...... tings was real grim ...... meh babies get real mirasmie ...... cuz ah had wuz tuh break off ..... all de diseased leaves!
May 28 - Another five days later ...... dey was startin tuh look good again
June 20 - Nearly three weeks later ..... tings wuz so nice ..... dat one ah dem ...... start tuh bear ..... if yuh look good ..... yuh will see a little, white flower ..... that's how it starts .......
...... here's a close up of the flower ...... which is still closed ....... after about a day (or two) ..... the flower opens ..... dries up ..... and falls off ..... tuh reveal the start of an actual bodi ....... which is that small, magga, green thing ........ tuh de left of de flower .......
this is what the flower looks like ..... when it opens .......
..... and there's the bodi (ah lil fatter) ...... forming ah X wit de stem .... of one of de plants ...... kinda in de middle of de pic ......
July 13 - All 6 plants ..... fully back on track ...... wit dey 3 lil bodis ..... there are 2 at the top of the pic ..... at the corners ...... de kinda curly things ...... and the third one ...... kinda hangin close tuh de trough ...... more tuh de left of the de pic .....
July 18 - Just five days later ....... look at de size of dat bodi ...... it went from magga whip ..... tuh 8 1/2" long ...... wit some real nice girth ...... only thing is ....... what do you do wit one bodi ....... do I use it as garnish? ..... cuz yuh cyah cook one bodi?!
Happy Bodi-day to them
Happy Bodi-day to them
Happy Bodi-day Dear Dodi, Toni, Codi, Rudi, Soni and Mini
Happy Bodi-day to them
(oh .... and haven't forgotten you Jodi)
Remember when meh bodis get maljo ...... and dey wasn't lookin too good ...... well ..... like a good mummy ....... I nursed them back to health ...... wit some good ole TLC ..... and fertilizer!
Today ...... they are exactly 3 months old (which is like 15 human years!) ...... and ..... there are exactly 3 bodis on dem
...... big, bigger and biggest!A few months ago ...... maybe around the same time I 'sowed my seeds' ...... I began noticing articles in the newspapers ...... about gardening ...... specifically ...... growing veggies ...... and tho ah never really read any ...... I did keep a few ...... for future reference ....... but ...... where I lacked in theory ...... I certainly made up in practical ...... cuz from personal experience with my bodis ...... I learned that ...... they grow real fast ...... from birth tuh bearin ...... in just 3 months! ...... dey could get sick real easy ....... dey didn't really need anyting tuh climb on ...... and dey were OK ...... wit ah lil water, sunlight, fertilizer ....... and good conversation
This project ..... turned out to be ..... very fun ...... cuz other than the obvious benefits ...... i.e. growing food ...... and learning about the actual plant ..... and the growth process ..... and acquiring a new level of responsibility ..... dat comes wit nurturing a living thing blah, blah, blah ....... I also learned something about ME ..... I learned that I too ...... was capable of becoming one of 'those' ....... a newbie mummy! ...... yuh know de creature?! ..... de one who does talk bout dey chile 24/7 ....... well ...... is only when people started zoning out on me ...... mid sentence ..... dat I realised ....... dat I was now one ...... cuz I too ..... would talk about my bodis ALL DE TIME!!! ...... no matter what de topic was ...... my bodis always factored in ....... I wuz gorn clear ...... wuz bodi on meh cell ...... as de wallpaper picture ...... bodi on meh laptop starrin on de desktop ....... and when ah open meh wallet ..... who pic yuh tink fallin out ...... wuz bodi on meh keychain ...... and all up in meh email too ..... now bodi on meh blog ..... enjoyin dey sixth or so mention! .... de only place dey eh reach yet ...... is on somebody 'friends' list ....... in facebook!! ...... ah never thought ah coulda become one of 'those'! .... but it was real easy tuh get hook!
Anyway ...... I'm seriously considering ...... sweet peppers ...... or tomatoes next ...... but ....... while I continue to procrastinate ....... check out my pictorial below ...... of the life and times ...... of my bodilicious bodis:
April 18 - The day little bodis began to sprout ...
April 20 - Just two days later ...... the crazy growth spurt begins!
May 2 - Two weeks later ..... from tissue in bottle ...... tuh soil in trough!
May 11 - A little over a week later ...... they are gorgeous!!!
May 18 - Another week later (and exactly one month after germination) ..... maljo sets in
..... all the leaves started to get gross brown spots ..... and some turned yellow ..... it was not pretty!May 23 - Five days later ...... tings was real grim ...... meh babies get real mirasmie ...... cuz ah had wuz tuh break off ..... all de diseased leaves!
May 28 - Another five days later ...... dey was startin tuh look good again
June 20 - Nearly three weeks later ..... tings wuz so nice ..... dat one ah dem ...... start tuh bear ..... if yuh look good ..... yuh will see a little, white flower ..... that's how it starts .......
...... here's a close up of the flower ...... which is still closed ....... after about a day (or two) ..... the flower opens ..... dries up ..... and falls off ..... tuh reveal the start of an actual bodi ....... which is that small, magga, green thing ........ tuh de left of de flower .......
this is what the flower looks like ..... when it opens .......
..... and there's the bodi (ah lil fatter) ...... forming ah X wit de stem .... of one of de plants ...... kinda in de middle of de pic ......
July 13 - All 6 plants ..... fully back on track ...... wit dey 3 lil bodis ..... there are 2 at the top of the pic ..... at the corners ...... de kinda curly things ...... and the third one ...... kinda hangin close tuh de trough ...... more tuh de left of the de pic .....
July 18 - Just five days later ....... look at de size of dat bodi ...... it went from magga whip ..... tuh 8 1/2" long ...... wit some real nice girth ...... only thing is ....... what do you do wit one bodi ....... do I use it as garnish? ..... cuz yuh cyah cook one bodi?!
Ok...so now its on to the next level... when we having de cook???
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first tings first ..... ah cyah cook ..... nex ting ..... how yuh does cook ONE bodi???
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Oh gosh congrats on yuh kids bday. But yuh coudna plant something else.. i doh like dem ting dey
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LOL .... truth be told ...... I didn't actually choose bodi ..... got them with my Sunday papers (see link below) ...... ah really want tuh try de tomatoes and sweet peppers tho ...... cuz I eat dat all da time ..... so it'll be great ...... if I could grow them myself ...... but ah hear tomatoes is real stress ...... we'll see
http://wuzdescene.com/2008/03/23/spread-yuh-seeds.aspx
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HAPPY BODIDAY TO THEM!
and congrats to you for taking such good care and keeping them alive
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Aye THANKS Blue ..... on behalf of Dodi, Toni, Codi, Rudi, Soni and Mini ......
and yeah ..... bringing dem here ...... was ah 100 times easier ..... dan actually keepin dem here ...... I real happy dat dey still 'alive' too
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congrats.... u oculd give them to a parrot or when u get more make a lil curry wit chicken an rice
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a parrot!!??? ..... boy you mad! ..... after all my hard work! ..... I goin an lick up dat ting mehself ...... if even ah have tuh put it in ah scramble egg or sumtin
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I always wanted to know my age in bodi years.
I never realized that bringing up bodis can be so fulfilling but I avoided bringing up bodis because I thought they would give me beans.
There is one photo missing and that is the one with bodis in the pot. However, bare in mind that good mothers rarely cook her children; she only cooks for them.
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LOL aka
..... I know ..... how could I eat my children?! ....... de 8 1/2" one ....... is sooooo ready tuh be picked (and eaten) ...... and I just can't bring myself tuh do it ...... I see therapy in my future
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Congrats on the bodi though I'm not so sure you'll be able to eat them. Of course you know this is urban farming, you never know, you too could be raising horses! But don't worry, this planting thing addictive, I used to have dozens of pots full of things before I went back to working 24/7. Tomatoes not hard, just buy the plants, starting from seed is a pain.
By the way, I think you live around the corner from me.
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Wallah .... you abandoned your planting to go back to work??!! ...... Que? ...... no comprendo ...... no can relate-os
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Sadly, economics prevailed. I had to give up a life of pajama pants and flip flops, working from home and tending my dog and plants for four inch heels and dry clean only suits. Tragic.
If you want cheaper plants and fertilizers try Agriflora in Aranguez, they have starter plants. Sometimes Hibiscus in Maraval has starter plants but they do have great potting soil, cheaper than Orchid House too. You go girl!
As for the two bodi in the fridge, stir fry, once you add them to a bunch of other things you will have a meal.
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Thanks Wallah ..... doh know if ah reachin quite Aranguez ...... but I definitely need tuh get crackin on phase 2
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Wow, its really wonderful!
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Buh what iz dis...Congrats on yuh bodi chick. Back when I had the time; before I started working POS, I used to plant pimentos, bronze lettuce, celery and chive. Hmmmm, maybe I should consider doing that again. Gardening is quite rewarding and, might I add, relaxing.
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So yuh mean tuh say yuh's a GRANNY now?! LOL.
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and of course i hang my head in shame
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Girl, you know you inspire me to find back my bodi pack that came in the papers?
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WOW that's great ....... you're gonna have much fun ..... right now ..... my plants have 3 more bodis on dem
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