Amazing how many oranges are needed to make 1 liter of juice.
I used はさく oranges which are like a sweeter grapefruit good stuff.
I used はさく oranges which are like a sweeter grapefruit good stuff.
Friday
well I never much cared for Fridays, and this one was no different. Tend to be pretty dull affairs for the single sort and this one proved to be no exception. I think Tuesday has to be my favorite day of the week and it has been since college perhaps before. Can't say why, it's not Sunday or Monday which means work is or will be starting again for the week, Wedsday is humpday Thursday is like Friday only worse since you still have work the next day. Friday-see above. That leaves glorious Saturday and lovely Tuesday..but I'm loosing myself
Saturday
My boy Joe-from Chicago.. asked me to climb a mountain. Mazuma yama the goal-the top. So we set out after a fashion. I parked the car and we started to walk and within a few minutes we came on some farmer's bee hives. As a kid growing up some people had bee hives on the land and I remember going into the hive and the smell and everything was a good memory, but there were never any bees around for some reason.. strange that. Well this day there were bees, Joe and I rounded the bend and we were faced with a lot of bees. We had no idea just how many and at first I thought if we moved slow enough that we might slip through. Well in short order a squad of bees tried to drill into Joe's head (actually got stuck in his hair) and it sounded just like a dremel tool drilling into his skull.. well needless to say , we (well him) freaked and ran away :).
Your weapons are useless against them.
Once back at the car I decided that I wasn't going to let a few bees. Grabbing the wheel we drove on to the bend we had just run away from.. well let me say it looked like a blizzard of bees. A wall maybe 4-6' wide of solid buzzing bees. Even through the car and the glass you could still hear the buzz of these friendly insects.first obstacle B passed. and no stings..
Next as we drove a bit more the road all but vanished so we parked and walked a bit until I saw a better place to park. So that's twice we had to go back for the car now.. but we pushed on til we found the cave.
The Cave
the cave-pretty cool huh?
Joe- the troll that lives in the cave
The cave was just that. It was like a dungeon right out of your favorite fantasy.. dark and creepy like, I stuck my head in and I couldn't really see the far way but after a few flashes with the camera I looked at the pictures and the cave was about 8 feet circular in diameter with roots and things on the walls. Just then I heard 'the noise' sqeeek!, flutter-flutter..it was a bat!
I flew back from the mouth of the cave and Joe was like, "what is it?"
"a bat," I says.
so what did Joe do? He grabbed the nearest pointy stick and started blindly poking around in the cave..no sooner did I say, "wait till I get away from you," a FREAKING huge bat flew out of the mouth of the cave. Maybe not so huge, but a lot bigger than normal.. maybe pigeon sized. Joe then flew back away from the cave and swatted at his head... "get it off! Get it off!"
aren't they cute when the aren't
trying to eat your face.
after that there really wasn't more incident until the final 'b' threatened us. Keeping in mind our nerves were up from the swarm of bees and the lone bat.. we were attacked by a rabbit. Not Monte Python's rabbit but just as startling. :)
We made it to the top, enjoyed a bit of food including-banana, spiced pancakes.. wonderful. The weather, the view, the food, and the adventure was just awesome.
a flower from the bottom of the hill (before the bees)
I thought it was unique since I didn't see any around, then rounded
the corner and there were thousands..still pretty.
view of home from the top, way in the distance
to the right you can see where i live, the bright
thing in the middle is the ocean-altitude ~523m
Prometheus? the god who gave man fire.
actually Joe, the kid who plays with matches.
Sunday was a cool down, I helped with the elementary school kendo kyu tests not much beyond a bunch of little vicious kids beating each other with sticks.
nuff said, so tired...
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said...
Wow! That was a lot of bees! Your taking some incredible photos. However, you are blatantly stealing quotes from me that I was ripping of from movies...
Bien Hecho!
J
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