The Great Outdoors with the Ladies

I went camping with Lauren for her birthday with a bunch of ladies, most I already knew. It was a great time, I really love camping, hiking, and now tubing. It was so peaceful and relaxing. I really felt one with nature and now I really want to be near nature a lot more often. All the ladies invited along were fun and enjoyable to be around.

I got to have more girl-therapy, which is always needed. I met Emily, Lauren's friend from NY, and she was very nice and just a great person to be around. It was wonderful hanging out with Lauren, today is her official Birthday. Happy Birthday Lolly!


I can't wait till I get to hang out with her again. We stayed in what the camp called tree houses which were just small cabins on stilts. I just loved every moment of it. We went tubing, which is just floating down a big river on a tube (we brought coolers of beer and you float them along with you). It was beautiful and very relaxing and fun. I really recommend doing it. We did the hour and a half float up the river twice. A wonderfully fulfilled experience. I love those ladies, we're thinking of getting together like this every year. I really hope we do.



Thanks again Lolly for planning this little adventure!

Tomato Plants: Short But Interesting

The title of this entry is terribly misleading. "Short" refers to the length of the entry, and "interesting" refers, hopefully, to the content, or rather the small exposition about the content, tomato plants. But neither word is intended to refer directly to the plants themselves, while, clearly tomato plants can be both short and interesting, to the botanically inclined.

And in fact "short" as a valid descriptor for this entry is beginning to lose accuracy the more useless verbage I add in to pad out what may in fact be a less than "interesting" revelation about tomato plants. So it may not have been the greatest choice of titles, but, nearly three paragraphs in, it's too late to change it.

And so, here it is. The third paragraph, containing a short revelation about a sometime short plant in a continually lengthening entry with dubious interest for the readers: Tomato plants, even when very small, if rubbed or injured in some way, smell like fully developed tomatoes.

I think that's wild! It's the whole contained in the parts. It really caught me off guard the first time I noticed it. Apparently, even as small seedlings the plants already contain all the aromatic compounds that will eventually make their fruit perfect for salsas, sauces, and tomato mozzarella sandwiches.

Mother Nature is one groovy chick.