Goodbye Mattress

Do my parents or siblings remember this mattress? I may be wrong but I remember sleeping on this mattress or its pair way back in Panama, ca. 1975. After taking visitors surfing this morning, I took sundry things to the Laie dump. Beth and I used this mattress since 1996, and before that it was in Utah, Virginia and Spain. We didn't take household furniture to the Philippines. But maybe this mattress dates from before Panama. Venezuela? Morocco?
But after many, many nights of slumber, the mattress expired; too many childhood accidents, rodents and moves. But I took a picture to preserve the memory for posterity.

Dictionary Game

Isabel chose Dictionary Game for Family Home Evening. Here are our real and fabricated definitions for three words. Test yourself and reply to tell us which definitions are most convincing and/or funny. We want to know who is the best at twisting words! We will send a postcard to anyone who guesses the correct definition of all three words.

(1) What does the word "bathorhodopsin" mean?

(a) An attendant with towels in a Turkish bath
(b) The condition of creativity flowing due to favorable and sometimes odd circumstances
(c) An antibiotic derived from the plant family rhodopsin
(d) A place where people who like taking baths gather
(e) An isomer of rhodopsin that is formed by the chromophoric part of the molecule and (unless stabilized at very low temperature) changes spontaneously to lomirhodopsin
(f) A hot spring with minerals that give it a blue color

(2) What does the word "xantholiniform" mean?

(a) Food or objects containing gum of the Xanthos tree
(b) Trees and leaves
(c) A forest frog that has chameleon-like qualities
(d) Narrow, elongate, sub-parallel
(e) The form of a wooden goblin statue
(f) typesetting form used in 16th century printing presses.

(3) What does the word "saganaki" mean?

(a) A Greek dish of fried cheese, served as an appetizer or snack
(b) It is Japan word. It is food.
(c) A delicate and beautiful Chinese vase with elaborate designs
(d) The debris and destruction that follows a tsunami
(e) A word that means you are kinda crazy and do not know what you are doing while you are naked
(f) A Japanese chest of drawers, usually finished in black lacquer

Easter Pictures

We uploaded new photos of us.

Fruity Backyard

Watching our pineapples grow delights us. We planted the larger one last year in June and it's beginning to produce a little fruit. We planted the smaller one two months ago and it has new spikes coming out of the middle. Both were pineapples that we bought at the store and ate the fruit. All we needed to do was save the spiny top, peel the smaller leaves from the outer core which reveals a stringy core, plant in wet soil and it grows. Blessed tropical fertility.
Our lime tree is also blossoming. But we almost always have limes in some stage of maturation on the prolific tree.