Wonderful Landlord!

I had to do laundry and go to the commissary on Sunday.  So Howard and the girls decided to take another load of stuff to the house.  Howard is leaving Monday for DC and I think he feels bad I will be here to do all the work.  He comes home Friday but we have to be out on Saturday morning.   Plus it was nice to have some Dad and daughter time.  So I sent them on their way.  They got to the house and started unloading stuff.  They had gotten everything in the house and Genardo, the landlord showed up.  He started showing Howard how to use the satellite TV service that he installed for us.  He also showed him some other things in the house.  Genardo does not really speak English, so as Howard said ,”I think I understood about a quarter of what he was talking about today!”  Genardo took the girls in the backyard and had them pickign eggplants and tomatos.  Then he told the family to get in his car, he wanted to show them something.  He took them to his orchards.  They got to pick fresh figs, walnuts and apples.  He showed them how to eat the figs, which Delaney LOVED!  He also showed them that walnuts grow in a green fruit that you peel open to reveal the nut inside.  Then he cracked it open with his teeth for them to eat.  He then showed them his apples.  He had yellow and red apples.  So Happy September, my girls got to go apple picking!  Too bad they didn’t have their apple hats!!  They came home so excited about their adventure.  Genardo told them he would teach them Italian if they taught him the words in English!  He was even growing mace, which they taught him is corn.  Although this corn was only good for chickens=) He even told the girls they could help him in the orchard anytime they do not have school.  Blythe is so excited about that.  Now Saturday can not come soon enough!  Genardo is really making this whole experience worth while for us!!

Hopefully he will let me take his picture soon so you can see what he looks like!!