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The Numbers Game #96. Please Play Along! Oct 27, 2025

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #96”. Today’s number is 218. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title. This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album.

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Small boats cut through our wake

 

“Not by Bulk”, for SOCS, Feb 7, 2025

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Five Bananas

I was on my way home from the weekly market today, going to my car to get a thermal bag to buy ice at the corner liquor store,  when I passed a big truck selling fruit and vegetables.  I asked if they had bananas that weren’t green.  He got up in the truck, showed me some and I said “How much?”  He gave me a price for 2 kilos (about 4 lbs) and I said, no, I didn’t need that many and thanked him.  I realized then that he probably just sold in bulk to small grocery stores in the area.  I got in my car and drove a block away to another small fruit market and just as I was going to open my car door, the truck pulled up beside me.  The window next to me was rolled down and the man held out a bunch of five bananas.  I asked how much and he smiled and said, “It is a gift” and they drove away. Later, I saw them in another store and asked if I could buy them something to drink from the cold case, but they both said no.

Some days are worth getting out of bed for!!!

 

The prompt for SOCS today is “bulk.”

The Rest of the Story for Cee’s FOTD Aug 17, 2023

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Here is the state of the banana cluster for Cee’s FOTD. The flower was already shown HERE.
as a “What flower is this?” post. Two folks guessed immediately. Guess there are more banana growers in the world than simply me! The bananas are presently just 5 inches long. The red part of the flower is 10 inches. I think the fluffy part at the top of the flower is actually little aborted bananas. Is that as much as you wanted to hear about bananas today? I’m fascinated, looking forward to another crop as there wasn’t one last year and bananas mean banana bread. And calories. Hmmm.

 

Fruitful Harvest

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Watermelon
All sliced and ready to eat.
Tuna (prickly pear fruit) is a favorite in Mexico.
Pineapple
And bananas off my own tree!
Ripe strawberries.
First, I removed the calyx and pith of the strawberries.
Berries on the heavenly bamboo not for human consumption
But berry pie is! Ahhhh.

Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.

For CMMC Fruit prompt

Banana Harvest Time

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After a year, my new crop of bananas was finally ripe and ready to be cut off the bunch. I ended up carrying  34 pounds of bananas  up to the house in two trips. This yielded 12 gallon bags full of sliced bananas to freeze for smoothies and banana bread.  That filled up a 16X8X11 inch space in my freezer. See proof of my labors below. Click on photos to enlarge and read captions. Forgottenman insisted you’d be interested in this. I had my reservations, but I usually comply with requests, so here is the proof of my day’s labors.

The year’s crop, minus a few we’ve eaten as they ripen
And bananas off my own tree!
Skinned, sliced, bagged and partially frozen
Most of the bananas
The slow-ripeners,taking up residence in my kitchen and ready for slicing in a few days, when they’ll fill another bag or two in the freezer..
And this will be the final chapter of the “Banana Chronicles.”
Fresh banana bread.

 

For Cee’s FOTD

The Life Story of Bananas: FOTD May 12, 2020

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To read the life story of this giant banana blossom, click on each photo. The photos will enlarge and the story is told in the captions.

On December 7, I discovered this gorgeous bloom hidden behind the palm fronds and giant philodendron leaves in the strip of garden between my house and studio.
In April, I started asking Pasiano if it was time to cut down the branch and hang them upside down to ripen. No, he said, that time
and the next two times I asked.
But finally, yesterday, he said it was time.
My choice of where to hang them was in the gazebo next to the hammocks, where I could be sure to chart their progress.
Already, at least one was ripe beyond the eating stage, but right for banana bread.
Pasiano picked the pick of the litter for us to try.
Guess which one I got?
It was a bit overripe at it’s end, but Morrie and Diego enjoyed it.
Pasiano thought his was perfect!

 

For Cee’s FOTD prompt.

Bananas for Bananas

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Papaya and banana smoothie blended with bran, almonds, Psyllium, ground flax seed, chia, green apple soy milk and ice. I’ve had a variation of this smoothie every morning for at least 25 years.

Bananas for Bananas

The ubiquitous banana is long and smooth and yellow—
subtly curving inward, its flavor round and mellow.
In the jungle you can find it in a monkey’s hand,
but when you find it in the market, Chiquita is its brand.

The denizen of smoothies , or dipped in chocolate,
with a banana in your mouth, you will not talk a lot.
You’ll chew and you will savor, perchance to moan and drool.
If you don’t like bananas, you’re a culinary fool.

You can find one that is yellow and pick it from the bunch,
add berries and papaya and savor it for lunch,
but a real banana purist just picks one out and peels it,
then gobbles it up fast before somebody steals it!

 

This is the state of my banana tree. About time to pick the bunch and hang it up to wait for them to finish ripening.

The NaPoWriMo prompt today is to write about fruit.

Banana Tree: Sunday Trees

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Love this scar tissue from a stripped off bundle cover.
Smoothie fodder–almost.
Hugest flower on the property.

 

Here is my first crop on my banana tree planted a couple of years ago!

For Sunday Trees 421