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  1. On December 10, 2016 at 2:10 PM, ezpz said:

    I forgot to mention, I have also seen an orb.  It appeared to be floating around the tree in back of my house, in the middle of the night.  It looked and acted a little like a firefly but it was about the size of a golf ball.  I have never seen a single firefly here at Lakeside, let alone one the size of a golf ball, which would be huge for the little lit tip of a firefly.

    There are fireflies or lightening bugs here.  There aren't many but a few.  Being in the city they are not very visible.  But if you lived further out in the country you would see a little more.  On the other side of the wall from my garden passes the arroyo here in Chapala, there is some open spaces and lots of trees and plants growing all along.  Some nights in the somertime I see them pass over my wall and fly around my yard. Or I spot them from my mirador flying around along the arroyo.  

  2. Thanks for making and posting the videos.  I sit up on my mirador many nights of the week.  All I've been able to see are the blinking lights of something slowly moving in a straight line, which are obviously a plane or jet.  All I can say is the first video with the blue light which appeared to be spinning around hypnotically was rather disturbing.  The second video looked almost like a flying Christmas tree and it also was disturbing.  I've never tried those so called magical shrooms before, but if I were to partake, that is the kind of crazy mierda I would most likely see if I were to look up to the heavens at night under the influence of those little suckers.  Absolutely cool, but at the same time utterly terrifying!

  3. Well Chillin, you mentioned the black sapote, I do have one of those I planted two years ago, still waiting to get some fruit on it though.  I also have lychee, guanabana, Surinam cherry, miracle fruit, and pitahaya to name a few of my exotics.  With bananas, I have just the Jamaican Red, which is delicious.  When we first bought the house, it was producing huge long bananas, two years ago it got so out of control we trimmed it down, got rid of all the tall older stalks.  I guess it was pissed and didn't give us any bananas for a year and half, now we are getting a few again, but they are really small like the dominican bananas, but the sugar content is more concentrated so they are extremely sweet tasting.

    Ned Small, you say you've seen these Java Blue bananas in the Chapala tianguis and at Soriana.  I have yet to come across them, but I will keep my eyes open, thanks for the heads up.

    A few weeks ago I saw some black sapote chocolate pudding tree fruit for sale in the Chapala tianguis, and I bought a couple.  They are good but better when you mix a little powdered sugar in them.  In ice cream they do taste a lot like chocolate.

  4. So there is nobody here that has seen these in any of the nurseries or perhaps at somebody's house.  They sound really cool, blue bananas that taste like vanilla ice cream.   They aren't new, apparently they have been around since the 20's in Hawaii at least.  And now they are starting to sell a lot of them in the nurseries in the States.  I wonder how easy it would be to smuggle down a small rhizome.  If I wash all the dirt out of it and just wrap it up in a wet paper towel I wonder if I would get into much trouble if caught at the border, or would they just probably confiscate it and send me on my way?  And what about cuttings of certain plants just wrapped up in paper towels and brought down in a car?  I know I can order many seeds and they will ship down here, but many plants don´t grow from seeds.  Any ideas of how to get one of these?

  5. Has anybody in the Chapala area seen these really cool looking blue bananas that allegedly taste just like vanilla ice cream.  I would love to have one but I have not been successful in finding them for sale in Mexico on-line.  You can easily order them in the States from nurseries in Florida but can't seem to find them here.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ice-cream-bananas_us_55f8d911e4b0d6492d638853

  6. I would bet that there are lots of single expats in their 60's living in the Chapala North shore area.  The single Mexicans tend to generally live with or near their extended families.  If you are looking to see lots of gringo activity, Ajijic would be the epicenter of where the vast majority have chosen to live.  If you want less gringos and cheaper living, check out the next towns over and use the buses.  Most of the towns here have a gringo presence and most of the expats are mostly 60 and up, but you will find people of all ages here and single folks are not unusual in these here parts.

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