As I've mentioned in a couple of places, I'm now a professor at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. We arrived the day after Christmas and are settling in. I'm now sitting in my office at UWI eating a wax jambu known locally as a pomerac. Its has the deep red color of an apple, the shape of a pair, the smell of flowers and a juicy sweet and tart taste.
If you are interested in knowing more about my adventures in the Tropics, I've started a .
Isn't the Scarlet Ibis the name of a very sad short story?
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Doodle bug! Doodle bug! Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
Is this a permanent move? Are you no longer with the U?
Do you have a spare bedroom? Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Ooooh. I envy you your fruit. My kids eat fruit so fast we're perpetually out when I want some.
Good luck in your new job!
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by Javert Hugo: Is this a permanent move?
Nothing in life is permanent. But to the extent that transient things can be permanent, this is.
quote:Are you no longer with the U?
I'm on leave for the next semester and then I will no longer be at the U.
quote:Do you have a spare bedroom?
Yes, guests are welcome.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Very cool, Rabbit. I'd known you were considering taking the position, but I didn't realize that you'd done so.
One of my favorite thing about spending time in other countries is getting to try all of the fruit I'd never heard of before.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
Those pictures are great! I loved the one of the flags, and the dome. The scarlet ibis looked amazing. The party sounded like a blast! Thanks for the link.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Stay safe, and enjoy!
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
Looks like fun. I love exploring new places.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Congratulations! I hope you enjoy your new job and location!
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
Nice blog!
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Nice digs! I'm extremely jealous that you get to live in such a fun place!
I'll try and look in on your blog frequently.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Congratulations, Rabbit. I hope your new job is fulfilling, and your new climate hospitable.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Congratulations! WHy people want to live in the tropics with all those bugs is beyond me, though. Good old disease-carrying mosquitos and ticks for me. At least they are small.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
My, it does look beautiful there.
I hope you enjoy it. I'll be thinking of you as the snow begins to fall in Michigan. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Every time I see this thread I wish it were called "Rabbits of the Caribbean"
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
I read it as "Rabbis of the Caribbean."
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
I read it initially as, "Rabbits in the Caribbean!!" meaning some sort of exogenous species of rabbit has settled in the Caribbean portending eco disaster, or else an indigenous rabbit close to extinction is resurging back.
Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
I thought it was going to be about a discovery of fossil rabbits that disproves evolution (thinking of "fossil rabbits in the pre-Cambrian").
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Every time I see this thread I wish it were called "Rabbits of the Caribbean"
Yes, I thought about Dobie'ing myself as a posted, so here goes.
My laboratory equipment, which was shipped in mid-January, was finally delivered today. The shipping company in the US forgot to book it on a ship so it sat in storage in the US for 10 weeks. Its taken three weeks to clear it through customs here even though the Unversity is exempt from paying duties.
On a sadder note, my household stuff is still "lost at sea". It was supposed to arrive here in early April. I got a call on friday April 5 saying that it had arrived but it turned out that only the ship arrived, my stuff wasn't on it. So the next monday morning when I was expecting to set up a delivery time, they told me it was lost and they were trying to locate it. At first they said it was in the Bahamas, now they say its in Dominca and is booked on a ship to arrive hear April 25.
So if you hear me comment in a thread that all my stuff is lost at sea, I'm not exaggerating (much).
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Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
I just harvested my first tomatoes. It's like eating sunshine!!
BTW, My stuff has now been located and actually in Trinidad although the shipping company has screwed up the payments they were supposed to make to the freight line last week so I can't get the stuff released. Grrr!!!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:I just harvested my first tomatoes. It's like eating sunshine!!
I was on the Eastern Shore of Maryland during prime tomato-picking season, and I must have had fresh tomatoes at every lunch and dinner. Most of them were in the field the day before or (at supper) that same day.
It's what convinced me to not use fresh tomatoes for sauce any more: most of the year canned are actually better, and the rest of the year, it's a waste to use fresh tomatoes in sauce rather than in, say, a nice insalata caprese.
I hope your stuff gets released soon.
BTW, Eve loved the T-shirt. Pirate bunnies FTW!
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
I love my Rabbits of the Caribbean T-shirt too.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:t's what convinced me to not use fresh tomatoes for sauce any more: most of the year canned are actually better, and the rest of the year, it's a waste to use fresh tomatoes in sauce rather than in, say, a nice insalata caprese.
It's not like you have to do one or the other. My parents have always grown tomatoes. They typically have half a dozen or more plants and in high season they have tomatoes coming out of their ears. They get eaten for every meal, bottled, made into salsa and given away. There are more than enough for both sauce and insalata caprese.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:It's not like you have to do one or the other. My parents have always grown tomatoes. They typically have half a dozen or more plants and in high season they have tomatoes coming out of their ears. They get eaten for every meal, bottled, made into salsa and given away. There are more than enough for both sauce and insalata caprese.
Alas, I can't grow them right now. If I did, I think I'd bottle sauce every weekend they came in.
My use them fresh system is based only on availability and cost in my area and my circumstances - it's not meant for general consumption, despite the initial careless wording.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
I can sympathize. I haven't been able to really grow tomatoes since I moved out of my mother's home.
We worked hard to grow them in Montana, but it was never very successful. The combination of regular Memorial Day and Labor Day freezes with cool nights meant we had to use walls of water just to keep them alive and start covering them with tarps every night starting in late August in order to get a few to ripen outside before we had to pull out the plants and let them ripen in the basement. And that was growing fast ripening varieties like early girl and roma.
Here, I just bought a couple of plants in mid February and stuck them in the ground.
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