Thursday; food glorious food;

Pawpaw or Papaya ready to eat.

The black ripe seed is edible as well, they taste peppery. I keep those to sow as soon as possible to grow the next generation  Pawpaw trees. Take the seed from well grown and sweet fruit.

 Pawpaw trees can succumb to wet or cold .They need a protected place away from strong winds or waterlogged soil. 

The scientific name is Asimina triloba. The pawpaw belongs to the Annonaceae, the Custard Apple family, a large family of trees, shrubs and lianas that are widespread throughout the World tropics.

Paw Paw (or papaya) is a fruit that grows in tropical areas throughout the world and is easily available throughout Australia. 

It is not only delicious but it has many health benefits.

These are just some of the major vitamins and minerals found in large quantities in paw paw:   dietary fiber, folate, vitamin A, C and E. It also contains small amount of calcium, iron, riboflavin, thiamine and niacine. It is also very rich in antioxidant nutrients flavonoids and carotenes, very high in vitamin C plus A, and low in calories and sodium.

…and it can be  easily grown in your own backyard as long as you live in a tropical or subtropical climate!

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Tuesday; fun;

The history of English in 10 minutes;

Sunday; chaos;

Chaos at the heart of Orion

By NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI

NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light-years away in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula.

 This striking infrared and visible-light composite indicates that four monstrously massive stars at the center of the cloud may be the main culprits in the familiar Orion constellation. The stars are collectively called the ""Trapezium."" Their community can be identified as the yellow smudge near the center of the image. Swirls of green in Hubble's ultraviolet and visible-light view reveal hydrogen and sulfur gas that have been heated and ionized by intense ultraviolet radiation from the Trapezium's stars.

 Meanwhile, Spitzer's infrared view exposes carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the cloud. These organic molecules have been illuminated by the Trapezium's stars, and are shown in the composite as wisps of red and orange.

 On Earth, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are found on burnt toast and in automobile exhaust. Together, the telescopes expose the stars in Orion as a rainbow of dots sprinkled throughout the image. Orange-yellow dots revealed by Spitzer are actually infant stars deeply embedded in a cocoon of dust and gas.

 Hubble showed less embedded stars as specks of green, and foreground stars as blue spots. Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout the cloud etched all of the well-defined ridges and cavities in Orion. The large cavity near the right of the image was most likely carved by winds from the Trapezium's stars.

 Located 1,500 light-years away from Earth, the Orion nebula is the brightest spot in the sword of the Orion, or the ""Hunter"" constellation. The cosmic cloud is also our closest massive star-formation factory, and astronomers believe it contains more than 1,000 young stars. The Orion constellation is a familiar sight in the fall and winter night sky in the northern hemisphere. The nebula is invisible to the unaided eye, but can be resolved with binoculars or small telescopes. This image is a false-color composite where light detected at wavelengths of 0.43, 0.50, and 0.53 microns is blue. Light at wavelengths of 0.6, 0.65, and 0.91 microns is green. Light at 3.6 microns is orange, and 8.0 microns is red.

Astronomy is marvellous;

Sepia saturday 182; girls and horses;

This time I left the photos in their original state. I thought the faded, old photos looked quite nice and in a way suit Sepia Saturday. I hope you agree.

ML and David, a well trained and clever little stock horse. He helped to round up the cattle.

Chichi was ML's horse. Strong and wilful, both of them!

Grooming and caring for the horses was a favourite task for the girls.

Friends;

J. prefered the small motor bike.

Down to the river for a quick dip;

This used to be the milk house, we did not have dairy cows. It was not used for a long time. The dairy herd of this farm had the reputation of producing the best cream.

L. was the girl to look after animals and birds in need  of TLC.

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Tuesday; fads;

I don’t like decoration fads which involve living fish. It is cruel to keep goldfish in small bowls or as under table decorations or as a bathroom sink decoration. Gold fish are living beings they need room to swim, sun and rain. Gold fish belong in an outside pond not inside. People are very thoughtless, cruel  and stupid when it comes to animals, fish or birds. 

Who had these brain dead ideas of using gold fish as decorations?

I have a pond with gold fish, watching them how they enjoy the sun in the morning, how they play when it is raining, they nibble on algae and find a lot of other foodstuff which they enjoy. They play with each other,  they come to the surface to look around, they are living, breathing beings, not playthings for stupid people who want to impress who knows who!

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Monday; monday....

Keep it in your mind

Every day is the best day for you.

You are lucky,

because it belongs to you, whatever you make of it.

It can sparkle with pleasure or  fret with anguish it is up to you and  to you only.  Titania

Sad...


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Photos from my garden.

Sepia Saturday 181; the bling we love;

This is one of my mothers old jewellery boxes. It is made of velvet but the top of painted silk is deteriorating rapidly.  I have chosen three of her everyday pieces she wore. I wear the ring with the ruby. A small brooch of 24 carat gold, it is very soft and has a diamond in it. I like the simple gold brooch with a row of garnets. My sister and my eldest daughter have necklaces, bracelets and rings. I have also her wedding ring which is double with the added ring of my father when he died. It was the custom to add the husbands ring. All these pieces are very old. 

Double string of Mikimoto pearls; they have never changed their lustre, but had to be restrung from time to  time.

Mikimoto had received a patent in 1896 for producing hemispherical pearls, or mabes, and a 1908 patent for culturing in mantle tissue, but he could not use the Mise-Nishikawa method without invalidating his own patents. Mikimoto then altered his patent application to cover a technique to make round pearls in mantle tissue, which was granted in 1916. However, this method was not commercially viable. Mikimoto finally made arrangements to use Nishikawa's methods after 1916, and Mikimoto's business began to expand rapidly.

The new technology enabled Japan's cultured pearl industry to quickly expand after 1916; by 1935 there were 350 pearl farms in Japan producing 10 million cultured pearls annually.

By 1935 the Japanese pearl industry was facing oversupply issues and plummeting prices for Japanese cultured pearls. Mikimoto promoted Japanese pearls in Europe and the USA to counteract falling prices. He publicly burnt tons of low-quality pearls as a publicity stunt to establish a reputation that the Mikimoto company only sold high-quality cultured pearls.

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