Mangos

It's mango season.  We don't have a bumper crop as in years gone by but still enough that we can't eat them all.  We give bags full to our friends, our garbage pick up guys, our pool man, our neighbors and pretty much anyone that will take them.

 

It's the time of year that we usually fight the parrots for fruit off the tree. We have tried many things to scare the parrots away...without much success. This year we have a new hazing tool.  We got water guns. But this year, we have had very few parrot sightings.  It's like having a fly swatter in your hand...you never see the flies. The water guns have been a fun toy even though we don't use them on the parrots.

The golden mangos on our tree are smaller than the mangos in the store. We harvest about two dozen a day.  Harvest means we pick them off the ground when they fall off the tree. What does everyone do with their mangos: mango sorbet,  pureed and frozen for sauces and drinks, smoothies, breakfast fruit with yogurt, mango chutney, mango daiquiris. The locals pick them right of the tree and eat them skin and all just like an apple.

 

Water guns for the win.