Dragon Fruit, The Pups & Signing in SF
The weather can’t decide what it wants to do in January. Well, at least on our end of the world that is. As we’re watching the news of blizzards and people using their front porch as a back up freezer in some parts of the country, we’re bathing in 87 degrees over here.
Yes, over here, in our part of California, we’re wondering if turning on our air conditioning in mid-January is wrong. Or worse yet, we’re seeing blooms on our volunteer tomato plants AND we’re harvesting a truck load of dragon fruit. All this seems so terribly wrong, yet Mother Nature has already dictated to our garden that it’s time to start fruiting tomatoes and dragon fruit?
Go figure. Everything seems backwards. But one thing is for certain, we’re eating a ton of fresh dragon fruit in January instead of the end of September!
Sierra and Lexi are having a blast in this generous offering of hot weather. They’re playing outside much more and Lexi is out to attack the drip irrigation lines. Again. Again. And again.
For many of you who have asked for more Lexi pictures, here they are. She’s not the tiny little white-paw puppy you saw last.
The Pups back in August 2012The Pups today
She’s become a full grown pup and she’s outgrown Sierra by about 15 pounds. Lexi is always looking for a play-mate and that’s great for Sierra because it keeps Sierra out-and-about instead of sleeping all day or waiting for a beach romp.
before all the beach romps….
They are two lucky pups this weekend because we’re all heading up to San Francisco. Yup, another doggie road trip. We’re signing books at Book Passage at the Ferry Building during the last hour of the Farmers Market on Saturday, so if you’re free on Saturday afternoon, please stop by and say hello! Here are the details. It would be lovely to meet you.
And for Lexi and Sierra? They get to tag along and if they’re good pups, we might stop by a few doggie beaches along the coast. Or two. Or three.
Have a great weekend friends,
Diane and Todd
Previous Dragon Fruit Posts and Photographs:
- Summer 2014: Gorgeous and freshly picked dragon fruit!
- Dragon Fruit Salad Recipe
- Summer 2009 – Dragon Fruit Flowers
- Summer 2008 – Dragon Fruit growing on the vine and more Dragon fruit recipes
- Summer 2007 – Cool pictures showing the whole life cycle of Dragon fruit plants
The dogs and dragon fruits are awesome!
Love to see a blog where the pups are a regular occurrence, as they are on mine as well. As for 87 in January…let’s just say you have the rest of us very jealous!
I have never tried dragon fruit! They look delicious! and yes, I am SO jealous of your weather right now! I live in ND and this is a miserable cold winter. ha. Lucky us!
Omg! We are also a “couple” of parents to two pups (hence the URL)! When we were living back in New York, we used to take them on doggie road trips which, now that we moved to a place where such joy doesn’t exist anymore (Beijing….)(hence, running an angry blog), makes me wanna weep a little just thinking about it. Please enjoy your trips TWICE as much for our part, please.
I bought my first pack of locally grown strawberries yesterday and they tasted like they were grown in July. I’m just happy my apartment gets almost no direct sunlight. I don’t want to run the AC.
Your pups are adorable! Our dog Sirius (Black) has one white paw. We call it his Michael Jackson glove!
Love, love, love the pics of dogs!!!! Nothing more warms up my heart as dogs…. sorry.. I know there are many gorgeous things/creatures in the world but for me dogs do it!
And I am jealous of your dragon fruit. I live in Boston area and I still have to wait long time before the gardening season starts:( in mean time I started to get a seeds catalogs which is always a nice preludium. thanks for a very nice post!
Dragon fruit fascinate me. I would love to see a shot of them growing – do you have a tree or are they a plant? Love the “pups” update –
Gosh look at ’em pups…adorable! And those dragon fruit. Just gorgeous. I’ve had a treasure trove of dragon fruit recently. They are stunning fruits. I did a tropical rice pudding and a jelly with them recently. The colours had me smitten!
How kewwwwt! Love dogs.
So jealous you have dragon fruits! It’s been arctic cold in the East so enjoy your warm weather!