www.dadluvsu.com 244 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 looks like cowellii Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 The stinkiest dogs on earth. Borgy came by and hung out! Very nice guy. Paul, can you tilt your head any more.....more.....more.....perfect. Paul hogging up the camera. C. suerona. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Jeff had half a glass of cranberry juice and he starts to get loopy. Grafted Floss Silk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Andrea hard at work making dinner. Shrimpies.....mmmmmm. Thanks for dinner Jeff and Andrea. It was amazing! The Disneyland look. Click for a kooky video from Jeff's!!!!! Paul's getting billigerent and throwing his beer bottles around. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8er-moni 15 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Thank you - both - for this threat and the great pics :drool: :drool: It looks as if you enjoyed the time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paulgila 194 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 funny,this is EXACTLY how i remember that evening:semi-dark & blurry with jeff making funny faces. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paulgila 194 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 interesting flowering tree in jeffs yard. he may have just glued fake ones on to impress us,its hard to tell. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Bombax maybe? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paulgila 194 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 thanks to jeff & andrea for opening up their home to us! they are both wonderful to hang out with & andrea is quite the snarkstress in her own right! friday morning after leaving jeffs place(jeff if anything is missing it was MATT) we headed to downtown homestead to look for souvenirs & nothing else! this area was not only the cute antique zone,but also a major truck route for big rigs. i vowed that as new mayor of homestead i would put an end to this "traffic travesty," a promise i have already reneged on. (extra credit: name the palm that matt is leaning against!) heres the nice lady from the antique shop who wouldnt stop talking to us. we went into an art shop & crutches fell on me from the ceiling.i guess thats normal for florida. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 We had lunch at Casita Tejas in Downtown Homestead. I had the burro burrito and paul had the Chinchilla Chimichanga. As Mayor of Homestead Paul vows to change the name to the "Seminole Vesicle Theater". He does this everytime we pass a police station, or a police officer, or a prostitute. The seed bandit strikes again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Ewwww, that's unsavory. Kids, this is what you look like when your diet consists entirely of Cocktail Sauce, Jalepenos, and Miller High Life. Let that be a lesson to you.....drink Coors. Back home at the Johnson Ranch. Fridge stocked, check. Ken Johnson cooking up some delicious grub, check. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 BJ the action cat, check. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paulgila 194 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 those seeds were delicious. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paulgila 194 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 some shots from the drive back to the ken johnson ranch. & people thing my house is a weird color! deserted house down the block from ken johnsons. the yard STILL looks fabulous! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paulgila 194 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 matt wore the same shirt for what seemed like days on end. it may have just been the one day,though. heres something that ken johnson whipped up for us. the potato salad was super-tasty,i've never had any quite like it. conrad chows down in the kitchen... then mans the grill with dad. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Paul and I decided to take a romantic walk before the dinner party that night. These dwarf Scheflera line the roads for miles. They air layer them and then come by and hedge them off Farmville The everpresent Royal. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Moments before Paul unexpectedly clotheslined this poor dude. Yes it was funny. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Lot's of Delonix regia planted along side the road too. Seed I collected are already germinating. I've got 3 in the ground at my place and going for more. I'm so sad the blue tarp rotted away because it really added to the whole color scheme. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paulgila 194 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 so happy that the only time yer camera had enuff charge or memory was for the schefflera hedge,matt. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 boooyeahhhhhh. It's deserving of multiple pics I'd say. Thanks Ken for a great dinner, again!!!! Paul doing what he does best, look suspiciously at me. Next is monster PRA @ Fairchild's!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Johnson 198 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Your doing a great job Boyz. Did you ever ask BSman about the fourth twin? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 17, 2009 Bill, were the original BS Man ranch hands identical triplets, identical twins and an older or younger sister, identical twins and 1 fraternal twin? Is there such a thing as identical triplets or do they have to come in multiples of 2? If so, can one twin be absorbed by the other thus creating only 3? Is the absorbed twin still hot? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff Searle 1,061 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 "Well,What,Who".....omg, that was pretty funny. And I don't even remember that crappy shoot. Hell, I don't even remember Borgy walking around with us! Great stuff guys, it was fun. But seriously, you two drink ALOT, and I do mean ALOT of beer. My god. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yachtingone 107 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Matty, I want some of what yuo were drunking? In post 97 the guy on the bike must have had a reverse gear to get closelined. I'm not saying that's impossible? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BS Man about Palms 2,350 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Bill, were the original BS Man ranch hands identical triplets, identical twins and an older or younger sister, identical twins and 1 fraternal twin? Is there such a thing as identical triplets or do they have to come in multiples of 2? If so, can one twin be absorbed by the other thus creating only 3? Is the absorbed twin still hot? I counted 3 identical triplets.. all hot. from any angle. Just remember. DAHM. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tassie_Troy1971 1,076 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Great friends ,good food palmy tshirt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Walter John 217 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 boooyeahhhhhh. It's deserving of multiple pics I'd say. Thanks Ken for a great dinner, again!!!! Paul doing what he does best, look suspiciously at me. Next is monster PRA @ Fairchild's!!!!!! That's an avocado right ? They're biggies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Johnson 198 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Florida avocados Wal. Bigger but not better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
www.dadluvsu.com 244 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Tha shrimpacados kinda remind me of Beetlejuice Shrimp Cocktails... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John in Andalucia 623 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Those avocados look like Bacon - the big smoothies. We grow these, and the smaller, Hass variety. I won't eat them on their own, but with shrimps, prawns, olive oil, or spiced up in general, I don't mind. I'd have been happy tucking into Ken's concoction! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 We're up to Saturday, the South Florida Palm Society's Sale at Fairchild's. Paul and Ken as we're walking up from the parking lot in the lowlands. This is just moments before Ken kissed Paul. Some hardscapeage. The Phoenix dactylifera in South Florida looked great. But for some reason people insist on planting lots of Phoenix canariensis and every last one of them looked like crap. Come on people. Give it up. Just horrible I say. Attalea, something we don't see growing in CA. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Cycad area looked cool. Actually, that Phoenix looks like canariensis and looks good. OK, the only one in SoFla that does. The Society had thousands of seeds to give away for free. What a society!!!!!! Unlike Paul, I hadn't planned on collecting any seed on this trip but I couldn't resist a few Copernicia hospita. Can you blame me? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 It was Jeff's birthday and we presented him with this T-shirt from Paul, FreakyPalmGuy, and myself. Art was done by Freaky in Temecula. It says, "Jeff, PRA Team Macho Man" Part of the PalmTalk crew that met up for the multi-coast PRA. L to R: Sur4Z, Bubba, Borgy, Jeff, Pohonkelapa, PalmIsland Randy, pulled me aside and just had to show me this oddity, a variegated Pseudophoenix sargentii. I'm glad he did, I've never seen anything like it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Here he is getting his shots in. The Copernicias were some of the most memorable palms seen on this trip. Upskirt C. baileyana I think. If Bubba ever drops dead while on a tour here, just dig a hole and push him in. He said. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Syagrus coronata trunk detail Random Attaleage Paul and Bubba This palm was trying to throw some adventitious roots at about 7 feet up. Weird. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Paul did not put this crack in the palm trunk.....Ken did. Here you go Kim Ken looking innocent. We know you broke that palm Ken. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Huge Hyphane sp. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Rainbow Eucalyptus, E. deglupta Philedendron Some steel drum action Click on this for the sounds of the day. And yes, all Bubba did all day was tell people what to do. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Thrinax parviflora var. parviflora, I'd never seen this one before. Cool! Encephelartos Randy amongst the grotesquely huge Hyophorbes Saybull Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattyB 2,017 Report post Posted November 18, 2009 Gaussia Gomez-Pompae I think Dave-Vero leads Paul to the Pseudophoenix promised land. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH Paul with the best P. vinifera ever!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
