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This week you are getting a premature picture. It is a pineapple, but it is only half grown and you can see from the leaves that it had a very difficult winter. However, it is a "flower" and it is a bromeliad. I don't like traditional sweets but I always asked my mother for pineapple upside down cake for my birthday. I have such happy memories of those birthdays. Unfortunately, as I got older, I found it difficult to digest pineapple so I stopped eating them even on my birthday.



After I moved to this property somebody gave me a pineapple; you know, one of those perfect looking things from Hawaii. I couldn't eat it so I cut its top off, dried it, and planted it. More than a year later it produced a perfectly formed new pineapple. I had to eat that! It was the sweetest I have ever tasted and it didn't bother my stomach.



Last year I had nine pineapples and some of you got to enjoy them. This year I only had seven, but this year I also had feral pigs digging up my back yard. Five pineapples were destroyed in adolescence. The pigs didn't even eat them all; they just tore them up. That's how pigs are.



Anyway, these two runt size pineapples were on the front of my property. I don't know if they will mature or if between the pigs and too much rain they will wilt before they mature. What I do know is I hope at least one of them makes it because I really want to eat it.



Once you've tasted heavenly ambrosia, the memory and desire for more never fades.



Have a great weekend, and I hope you find your own ambrosia.