"i want motorcycle" -colin
Some pretty emotional turn of events have left me in an out of funks lately. Not to mention, my first contact with the outside world this morning was my dad, calling to tell me that lil had drank water out of some ditch during a pit stop on a road trip. great. lil better still be alive by the time i'm done saving moosehead lake.
the 4 roomies of super sweet sixteen piled into liz's puke-mobile today in search of a pumpkin patch, apple orchard, library, and alpaca farm. we found... the library. liz's books were a week overdue. the sign we followed for the first pumpkin patch was actually just a pumpkin stand. at a dairy farm. hmm. at least we got apples that colin picked from a road side tree. the next pumpkin patch we made it to, 15 minutes before close, had no patch. just pumpkins. turns out "the pumpkins just didn't come this year. they flowered, but the honey bees just didn't come. so these pumpkins we shipped up from a different field."
WOW. for so long, i have been explaining to people the reasons why i am of the vegan variety that is still strict about honey. it is demeaning at times, because of course honey seems like such a great food. not as easily sworn off as the generally unhealthy meat and dairy products of the standard american diet. well anyway, i explain that as industry removes honey from bee hives, they replace it with high fructose corn syrup, because the bees still need food. one problem with this industry practice is that honey is medicinal to bees, on some levels that humans are only beginning to understand. because bees have co-evolved with this food source, taking it out of their life leaves them with weakened immunity to many problems bees face, such as mites. http://www.cnbc.com/id/17918439#
well anyway, i met someone today who's lively hood was obviously influenced by bee colony collapse. it was sad. and i didn't get to wander a pumpkin patch.
instead i went to the largest globe in the world.. except well.. the world, of course.
so did colin:
<3 thai dinner. fun times car ride with good company. i need to go find some bagels in a dumpster and sharpen some chopsticks into knitting needles.
i'm going to miss colin and liz next week, while they go back to boston for training.
the 4 roomies of super sweet sixteen piled into liz's puke-mobile today in search of a pumpkin patch, apple orchard, library, and alpaca farm. we found... the library. liz's books were a week overdue. the sign we followed for the first pumpkin patch was actually just a pumpkin stand. at a dairy farm. hmm. at least we got apples that colin picked from a road side tree. the next pumpkin patch we made it to, 15 minutes before close, had no patch. just pumpkins. turns out "the pumpkins just didn't come this year. they flowered, but the honey bees just didn't come. so these pumpkins we shipped up from a different field."
WOW. for so long, i have been explaining to people the reasons why i am of the vegan variety that is still strict about honey. it is demeaning at times, because of course honey seems like such a great food. not as easily sworn off as the generally unhealthy meat and dairy products of the standard american diet. well anyway, i explain that as industry removes honey from bee hives, they replace it with high fructose corn syrup, because the bees still need food. one problem with this industry practice is that honey is medicinal to bees, on some levels that humans are only beginning to understand. because bees have co-evolved with this food source, taking it out of their life leaves them with weakened immunity to many problems bees face, such as mites. http://www.cnbc.com/id/17918439#
well anyway, i met someone today who's lively hood was obviously influenced by bee colony collapse. it was sad. and i didn't get to wander a pumpkin patch.
instead i went to the largest globe in the world.. except well.. the world, of course.
so did colin:
<3 thai dinner. fun times car ride with good company. i need to go find some bagels in a dumpster and sharpen some chopsticks into knitting needles.
i'm going to miss colin and liz next week, while they go back to boston for training.