Do you Remember the Pineapple ??

Well the day has come to harvest our pineapple. Here is Pat holding his BIG crop.

We have been growing the pineapple plant for about three years.
This past January we learned what you have to do to get the plant to produce fruit. We followed all of the instructions and to our suprise a baby pineapple appeared. We have been watching it grow for several months. (refer back to earlier blogs about the pineapple) At some point the fruit stopped growing but the top kept getting bigger and bigger. As you can see in the picture the top is about four times larger than the bottom.

Pat cut it up today at work.

We made sure that we had a piece for all of our co-workers. Everyone has been watching it grow for several months.

The fruit was delicous. The plant has sent out another shoot on the side, we are hoping to be able to harvest another pineapple next year.

We have had fun with this project and the fruit was definetly worth the wait.

A few random thoughts

First of all for those of you that look at my blog occasionally you know that I have been so excited about my pineapple plant. I am not so excited about it anymore, it just isn't growing. The fruit is staying small but the leaves on top of it are getting bigger and bigger, I feel like I failed pineapple growing. I think I need to go to Maui and get first hand instructions, anyone want to come along?

Secondly, I attended a Girl Scout training on Saturday, I had a lot of fun. I left Pat at home with a house with most of the rooms turned upside down. I was afraid that he would try to help and clean, which always scares me because I can never find anything when he does that. Well he didn't help me clean, but he did add to the mess ! He has been wanting to paint the hallway and I have been wanting him to paint the bathroom door so the work began. First he pulled up the carpet in the hallway. One thing that he needed to do in preperation was empty the bottom of the hall closet, that is now on the kitchen floor. Look at my beautiful linoleum:















That needs to go quickly ! can you believe he actually taped it so that he did not get any paint on it?


Before he paints he felt that he needed to level the house, so the past two nights he has been under it trying to level it up. Last night it got close enough, I can now actually close the door to one of our extra bedrooms that I use for an office.










Now before he paints he needs to fix a couple of giant cracks that developed after leveling the floor. Quite a few nails popped on the hall wall also. Pat is an excellent sheetrock taper so I know that you will not be able to see any flaws at all when he is done. One more thing that I have asked him to do is to take down the panelling in the hallway also, he will do that in the next few nights. We are hoping that the hardwood floor under the linoleum is in okay condition, just a quick sanding and it will be beautiful.



Third, Saturday night Pat and I went for dinner with some very old friends that were in town,

Kevin and Polly Childs and three of their children, Josiah, Judson and Ian. We went to a local BBQ restaurant, Lisa's Hawg and Dawg. We all enjoyed a good meal and good conversation. Kevin was the Pastor of our church when we first moved here. Now he is the Pastor at the Rock in Conway, South Carolina. Josiah is in the Army, he was home on a short leave before going to San Antonio.

Update for the week of June 8, VBS and Pineapples

Here is a picture of Lindy and a friend in her classroom. They have been having a great time with about 18 other kids (preschool age).

STUDIO GO is the name of our program, it is game show setting with lots of action that gets all of the kids involved with answering questions and little games of competition. They all seem to be enjoying it.

These are shots of our Studio Go stage.

Here are some of the youth posing for a picture to put in their picture frame that they made last night.

This weeks update on the pineapple:

Pat and I are like new parents, we show the pineapple to everyone that comes in the factory. We are so excited, I'm not sure if we will be able to eat it when the time comes.

One last funny item: Here is a Smiley Face Fail, I blew this ball up the other day for the grandchildren and it had a frowny face instead of a smile! Poor guy.

Pineapple blog #2

This is a pineapple update. We noticed today that there are little purple flowers coming at the base of the fruit. I didn't think that the fruit grew much but actually in todays picture it is 2 inches wide at the base and in the first pictures we took it was aproximately 1 inch wide. We are so excited about the pineapple, we are wondering if we should move the plant outside, because it doesn't get very hot in the foyer at work, we don't know if it needs heat to grow. It could kill it with a big climate change from indoors to outdoors. Any suggestions ?

Our Baby Pineapple

Four years ago I made a fruit salad for a friend's wedding reception. I used a watermelon as the bowl. I cut up two pineapples along with other fruit to fill the bowl. Pat took the top of the pineapple and planted it, and it grew. We have it in the lobby of Gafney Embroidery. We have been hoping for a pineapple to grow out of it. We researched how you get a pineapple to grow and followed the directions.

Last week I noticed a little pineapple growing out of the top. We took a picture of it today and used a ruler to show how small it is. We are soo excited, you would think it was a baby or something. We plan to take a picture every week to show the progress of the fruit. The plant started a second plant, we are hoping that it will also get a fruit on it, maybe next year.
watch for our updates.