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Not quitting my day job for farming

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I am so super busy at work and have lots of posts coming up, work-related, but I'm going to get into the boring part of my life. Like the post itself is really boring, but what's going on at my house this week. A while back I posted pictures of the pineapple that I started growing. A few years ago, I bought a pineapple plant at Home Depot on it that had a small pineapple on it. After several months, when the pineapple was finally ripe, I took the top of that pineapple and rooted it. The original plant died, and I realized last week that it wasn't anything I did. It's just nature for the "mother plant" to die. Anyway, I rooted the top of that pineapple and grew another plant. After a couple of years, it started growing a fruit. The first picture was from September 1, 2014. Yesterday, the pineapple was finally ripe enough to pick. Basically, it takes 7 months for fruit to grow and mature. It's been the coolest plant to watch grow.  ...