You say tamatoe... i say avaacado

So this summer I became familiar with the avocado....


I wasn't sure if it was a fruit or a vegetable or even something random like a nut. I mean I knew enough like... its normally used to make guacamole but other than I had no clue. I wasn't even sure if i liked them.

But thankfully I was edu-ma-cated and now i know that avocados are delicious.

Funny Fact About The Avocado

The name "avocado" also refers to the fruit (technically a large berry) of the tree that contains an egg-shaped pit (hard seed casing). The word "avocado" comes from the Nahuatl word āhuacatl ("testicle", a reference to the shape of the fruit)

Ok MacGyver

Silly Field Crickets.... thinking they can move into my house.... Who do they think they are????

*chirp* chirp* chirp*

"what the...."

*chirp* chirp* chirp*

"a cricket? where is he?"

*chirp* chirp* chirp*

"shut up!"


-Mission Number One-

Asia sits reading Breaking Dawn on couch
A tiny useless cricket came chirping into our living room
-Justin- enters stage left carrying a broom
- sweeps broom under heating registers... chirping stops.
Justin exits stage left

"Guess you got him?"

5 minutes later

*chirp- chirp Chirp****


"ah Justin!.... where do you think he is?"

Justin enters stage left

*chirp Chirp CHIRP*

"I don't know but ahhhh shut up cricket"

Justin reclaims broom and sweeps madly under the registers... chirping stops (momentarily)
2 minutes later..... chirp.. Asia sits book down- disturbed- annoyed- mission sets in motion- moves couch - lifts it over her head... spins it three times... throws it 85 ft. moves coffee table.... sweeps furiously.... screaming

"Cricket!!!! I'll kill it!


waiting.... waiting.... no more chirping


"I guess you want to watch the movie? (p.s. I love you)" Justin suggests


Couple exit stage left... enter new Scene: T.v. room

Asia and Justin snuggle on couch. Tv noise in back ground... cricket enters stage right.

"Ah the cricket!!" "Justin get up the cricket!!!"

The small little black creepy crawly crept passed the couples feet while Asia screamed and tried to throw a bowl over the monster while Justin tried to squish it.....with much success the couple believed to have squished the monster by throwing clothes over it and stomping only to hear ..............Chirp..CHIRP...CHIRP.. a few moments later.

"Just, I think he is inside the wall?"

"We could spray something in there?"

"Ohh yeah.. get me some hairspray... and a hammer..."

"oh some straws... three straws"

"who are you? MacGyver"

"hahhahahaha" ---- after my Macgyver multiple personality was released - there was no hope for that darn cricket....I used the hammer to take apart the heating register I sprayed some hairspray behind my heating register....nothing... hmmm- alright now i put the straws together to create an extra long straw and poked the straw behind the floor moulding and suddenly a cricket appeared.. ahhhh I freaked out and sprayed that poor cricket with a lot of hair spray and squished him.

Meanwhile... 500 hundred other crickets have attack since then


THE END

Not much of a blogger

I've realized how horrible I am to commit on things like these....... Camp is over and I never blogged once over the summer. The kids came... and the kids went...and family camp went....and now that job is all but the past. But nonetheless very blog worthy. so here goes.... This summer was something unique for me. Cliche and corny as it maybe... I will say "it was a life changing experience" not because I have had some aura or epiphany suddenly enter my life and now I feel the need to became some advocate (or disciple if you will) to rant about the greatness of camp life ... oh no!... I won't do that. In fact some people would have hated my summer.

I mostly loved my summer because of the trips. My trip to Mount Washington with a certain lovely group of children was nothing less than inspiring. Climbing Katahdin was hard, rainy, but beautiful. And with a great group of friends (co-counselors). But in addition I witnessed ...lifestyles. Different lifestyles from different people. And although i could use the word JUDGE- i would prefer "assess" those people. And after assessing the people that i certainly grew to love or simply acknowledge I became one summer closer to understanding perhaps what I do want from life.... no..... maybe what i don't want. Because as i said before.... i had no epiphany. I just learnt through my environment that certain things made me very happy and certains things made me very irritated and certains things made me hope to be like or to never be like. "to be or not to be" - its like my summer gave me a list of pros and cons to life.... and I'll tuck that list "deep down into my pocket"- and only hope that in many more summers to come that i do not forget that list.