{"id":2607,"date":"2016-09-04T19:08:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T07:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2018-03-14T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:42:21","slug":"exhibitc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/exhibitc\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit C"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how I jokingly said I might have missed a fruit tree<\/a> off the\u00a0farmlet list<\/a>? Well, it actually happened. I recently discovered a previously uncatalogued tree.<\/p>\n

I know… You’re wondering how I could possibly not have noticed it\u00a0before, seeing as how we’ve been here for a whole year. Have I been wandering about\u00a0with my eyes on the ground looking for weeds<\/a> the whole<\/strong> time I hear you ask? Hmm, well, there has been a lot of that, but it’s not the full story. Here let me explain.<\/p>\n

The plant in question\u00a0occupies an out-of-the-way\u00a0spot, sandwiched between an old bean fence, and the side of the bottom paddock. In addition it has, for the last 11 months or so, been posing very convincingly as a\u00a0boring overgrown shrub. In fact it only came to my attention at all because it had started to push across the ponies’ electric tape and cause a short. I decided\u00a0to attack it with the loppers, pending an Order of Execution on the grounds\u00a0said shrub had caused\u00a0a\u00a0disturbance to\u00a0the peace. [Evidence for the prosecution: Cantering hoofbeats at 2am as two\u00a0ponies pushed through shorted out electric tape (oh yes Your Honour, that happened).]<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway, I digress… It was only as\u00a0I maneuvered under the lower branches to deliver a limb-detaching strike that I spotted this\u00a0odd looking fruit.<\/p>\n

\"Cherimoya<\/a>

Mystery\u00a0fruit<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Forbearing Husband spent his teenage years on a tropical island, so naturally I picked the strange fruit\u00a0and rushed up to the house to ask\u00a0what it\u00a0was. He remembered eating them. He remembered they tasted good. Despite screwing up his face, scratching his beard and eating at least one square of chocolate (haha) as a memory aid, he couldn’t tell me what they are\u00a0called.<\/p>\n

That’s okay Forbearing Husband. I have Google Images.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0there it was<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Sampling<\/a>

It’s a cherimoya. We sampled it alongside\u00a0blue cheese and rice crackers.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The following weekend, when Deborah visited, we opened it up. I had a cold at the time so I really can’t give you any decent description of the taste, but Deborah liked it a lot. ‘Yum! A bit like vanilla custard!’ she proclaimed.<\/p>\n

Just as well she’s enthusiastic, it appears that cherimoyas are really not interested in\u00a0managing their own reproduction*, and demand hand pollination. It’s okay though, I’ve got a couple of little paintbrushes at the\u00a0ready. You and me, Deborah.<\/p>\n

I guess this means a stay of execution for our\u00a0felon, until further notice.<\/p>\n

* In truth this is because the little beetle thought to pollinate cherimoya in their native South American habitat got left behind when they emigrated. Most careless I say.<\/p>\n

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You know how I jokingly said I might have missed a fruit tree off the\u00a0farmlet list? Well, it actually happened. I recently discovered a previously uncatalogued tree. I know… You’re wondering how I could possibly not have noticed it\u00a0before, seeing… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fruit-trees","category-plant-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}