Ilan Ang Prutas Sa Bahay Kubo Novels & Stories

"Give me five. I'll be right back." He returns with an overflowing basket, setting containers one after another on the counter. "Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries. There were oranges too, but Sally tells me she shouldn't have citrus fruits while she's breastfeeding. Oh, and this..." He brandishes a jar. "Some kind of chutney. Apparently, it's from the last of the green tomatoes a few months back and Sally says she needs guinea pigs for the recipe." "Tell Sally I've no guinea pigs in the larder and I'd prefer she uses mutton next time."

Why am I so careless today? “Yeah,” I answered him, and when he stepped aside, I saw lots of coconut trees, but it's not only that. There are also fruits, and it was like this area was created to plant fruits like bananas, mangoes, and others. I excitedly grabbed some bananas because they were already ripe. Then I ate the yellow mango. “This is good; wait! How were you able to plan this one?” I asked him, and he just chuckled. “Well, I have people who always guard this private place, and I decided to do these things,” he said proudly.

I said and Beth bows before she turns and walks towards the door. In the morning we spend our time on the plantation taking fruits and riding horses. Then at 2 pm, we prepare to return to Baguio. “Mom dad these fruits and wines are too much. How can we be able to carry these all back to the province?” I utter in surprise when we see that the car is being loaded with boxes of apples, grapes, and mangoes. I also see two boxes of expensive wines, a famous product of the Villaflors.

Downstairs are the imported apples, pitaya, kiwifruit and so on bought by Zhou Fu and Zhou Mu. After eating an apple, An Taotao found that it was too late. She can’t stay much longer, so she got up and wanted to leave. "Uncle and aunt, I'm afraid my family will worry. I have to go." She was just afraid that Mr. King would go crazy. The couple nodded, "Be careful on the way, and come again."

But now she rarely went there because she didn't know what to expect from doing that. Juana stared at the old building at the other side of the street. It was not very old but was certainly up to ten years. Jasmine refurbished the outside every year. There were several trees around it. Cashew, Pear and apple trees. And just one avocado tree. They had a large orchard behind the house where Ivy's grandparents grew tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, bell pepper and cabbage. Juana and her friends were not allowed to enter the orchard.

May couldn't help but interject, "Mr. Garrison hid so much gold underneath here, why doesn't he get a better house to live in!" Julie glanced at the jujube tree next to her. The jujubes on the tree were still coming out at this time, but some of the ones that grew early had already started to sprout a little head. "The house is comfortable to live in, but life may not be as pleasant. Mom, Roberto may be enjoying himself. Tomorrow I will take you to see the bamboo house where he goes fishing. If it weren't for the heavy rain this afternoon, he might have stayed there tonight!"

Aw! Sweeping the floor and watering the plants in my mini balcony makes me hum happily. I started to arrange the kitchen ware, Fridge, stove, and the pantry makes me sweaty. I cut some broccoli, carrot, cauli flower and etc. to make a dish. It's a famous vegetable dish in the philippines a "chop suey" Maybe, I will just toast a chicken too for my whole day meal. I just finish everything and it makes me yawn. I forgot about the scenarios a while ago.

I cut down the wild creepers, removed unnecessary climbers as much as she could. Once the maze of creepers and climbers was cleared, Sia realized that there were a few fruit trees too. Surprisingly none of them were taller than 5 feet. Sia felt like she had won a lottery ticket. There was a cherry tree, mango tree, litchi tree, and a few bushes of chocoberries. Her stomach growled in response to the bushes laden with ripe, brown chocoberries. She plucked some of them and rushed to wash them. There was no kitchen or a sink. So, she took them to the bathroom.

"I will introduce you to everyone. For now, you may rest at Corazon's house." "Thank you," she replied. She left with Corazon. There she saw a small nipa hut of Corazon. This type of house is made of nipa palm leaves and bamboo. The floors are raised on house posts. It has the traditional roof shape of the Bahay Kubo, which is tall and steeply pitched, ending in long eaves. It was designed to create space above the living area through which warm air could rise, giving the Bahay Kubo a natural cooling effect even during the hot summer season. While steep pitch deducts water to flow down quickly at the height of the monsoon season. The long eaves give people a limited space to move about aroun

Mayroon din kaming watermelon at pineapple plantations na halos punuin ang bank accounts namin tuwing summer. “Hindi naman problema sayo ang pera, obviously. Pero handa ka ba talagang tustusan ang lalaking hindi mo naman kakilala at kaano-ano?” Taas-kilay na tanong ni Kuya Dylan. Tumahimik ang lamesa at sabay-sabay na nagtinginan sa akin ang triplets, naghihintay sa sagot ko.