These banana trees are only a few years old, but they’re making bananas.
![[Gretchen, Bananas, and dogs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/many.jpg)
Plus a pack of four dogs!
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![[Gretchen and the banana bloom]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/20200914_084954.jpg)
Pack of Dogs 2020-08-31
Leash training day.
![[Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-08-31--pack-of-dogs/both.jpg)
Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog
Nervous Nellie is also known as the Jackal, because she looks like one, and loves to skulk around and bark. She barks less as times goes on.
Oh, yeah: that’s Gretchen.
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Picking wild black cherries 2020-06-21
We don’t have a cherry picker, but we do have a ladder and a roof.
![[Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-21--gretchen-cherries-glass-house/20200621_092152.jpg)
Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries
Later, I didn’t take a picture as I was on the ladder picking behind my head.
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Gretchen and Yellow Dog 2020-06-18
At going on 13 years old, Yellow Dog is an octogenarian in human years, with arthritis to show for it.
![[Yellow Dog and Gretchen]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-18--gretchen-yellow-dog/20200618_081514.jpg)
Brown Dog, who is the same age, was probably sleeping somewhere.
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Brown Dog in boat in pond 2020-06-14
Brown Dog likes boats.
![[Brown Dog and Gretchen with halo]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_194527.jpg)
Brown Dog and Gretchen with halo
Especially this old flatboat. Continue reading
Sorting vegetables 2020-06-17
![[Gretchen sorting vegetables]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-17--vegetable-sorting/20200617_192914.jpg)
Frankentire 2020-06-17
Anybody else had to get one of these?
![[With bolt]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-17--frankentire/20200617_170715.jpg)
Thanks to Adel Tire for the fix, including a new inner tube.
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Box turtle and oblivious Yellow Dog 2020-06-11
Apparently box turtles don’t like blackberries, even when Gretchen offers them. And Yellow Dog doesn’t notice turtles.
![[Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-11--turtle-dog/20200611_112541.jpg)
Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle
Dogs in beaver pond
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog cooling off in a beaver pond.
![[Dogs in water]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_141956.jpg)
Gretchen is represented by her camera there on the right.
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Serpent 2020-05-08
The least menacing snake you will see today.
![[Not moving very fast]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-08--serpent/20200508_082734.jpg)
At the entrance to the Cypress Swamp. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog didn’t even notice.
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