安琪, 安杰 與安廷的成長日記

自己也曾經是個都市小孩，現在又養了三個比我更沒見過世面的小孩。很希望帶他們去大自然裡走走，但是鎖事纏身的我們，總是在都市裡打轉。
昨天有機會帶了三隻毛毛蟲回家，孩子們都興奮得不得了。這些毛毛蟲是在一間專為小朋友設計的自然科學博物館裡領養的。本來想順便去裡頭逛逛，誰知天公不作美，陰冷不說，還下起滂沱大雨。再加上小小博物館好像也是針對小小孩而設計的。我們買到毛毛蟲之後，就照了幾張到此一遊的照片就離開了。
  

早上還沒起床就有善心人士（以前一起上班的同事）送枇杷到家裡來。 很懷念以前一起上班的日子，他家種的水果超多，一年到頭都有好康可以A.  自從轉到Riverside上班以後，想要吃新鮮的水果，只有自力救濟，自己種水果吃了。


已經記不得是不是那一年（2004還是2005）從那位日本老先生手上接過這一棵小葡萄樹苗。 那時琪琪還很小，隨著琪琪一天一天的長大，這一棵小樹苗也一天一天地攀成了葡萄藤。  小小的葡萄籐架也每年擴展一點，結的果實也ㄧ年比一年多。 去年為了要消化過多的葡萄，我還打葡萄汁給小朋友喝。  今年希望可以學會做手工果醬，那就更棒了。

We have grape vine in our back yard since year 2006.... the year before Austin was born.  The plant was from a very nice Japanese couple.  They had their own sushi restaurant and Take was their very royal customer.  I enjoyed the food as well, but not so much now after their kids took over the restaurant.  The warm feeling is no longer there.  When the old couple was still operating the restaurant, the place was very "homey".... but now it's just a regular restaurant to me.  But..... that's nothing related to our grapes.....
We received the grapes as a gift and planted it in our back yard.  Only a few months later, we tasted the first fruit  It's now the fourth year we have fruits from the vine and they are again very sweet.  Our neighbor likes them.  Our gardener likes them.  We know that because the number of grapes close to the wall between us and the neighbor shrinks every single day even when the grapes were not ready to be eaten.  We were so glad they finally moved away because were afraid they will eventually finish all the grapes for us.    Our precious grapes also become less and less after each of our gardener's visit.  Birds like them as well so Take has to wrap paper around them to save them.  With all these competition, we sure are lucky to have some of them left. 
Today, Take found a perfect bunch of grapes.  We took some pictures and decided to give them to our babysitter for mid-autumn day!!!  heehee!!