my garden exploded!

well, I went away for the weekend (more about that later) and I came back to find that my garden started producing.  I have two full size zucchinis, a tomato that is almost ready to pick.  my basil has finally become tall enough that I don't feel guilty pillaging it, and there are green tomatoes everywhere!  I like this gardening thing.

They weren't lying

They weren't lying when they said that the desert is dry. It's pretty hard to find a place to cool off around here. Watershed protection efforts dictate that you can't play in some of the most inviting streams. I'm okay with this, because I would like to do my part to protect our watershed, but it makes it difficult for me because I love water. I love it in at least two of it's forms....liquid and solid (water and ice/snow).
This past weekend Jake and I went in search of water that we could play in, which took us a few hours northeast of Salt Lake City. Northeastern Utah is gorgeous. It's not as hot and dry as it is down here. The foliage is a bit more lush and it reminds me of Colorado. Why can't Black Diamond be up there?!

Tucked up in the corner of Utah which borders both Wyoming and Idaho there is a large lake called Bear Lake. The color of the water is similar to the carribean, and it was not as crowded as I would have suspected. The water was fairly warm, and I'm pretty sure I could have floated out there for hours, but, alas, it was a school night, and we had to drive another 3 hours to get home.

The west is huge.

2 weeks later

Hi again.  

Well, I haven't been able to garden or do anything really exciting for a little bit.  I injured my knee (or possibly my ankle/knee/hip/leg...whatever).  You see, I've been trying out for a club Ultimate Frisbee team.  Yes, I aspire to become a world class player of Ultimate.  The strange thing is, I never was very athletic before.  I don't know why I don't count skiing or snowboarding or hiking as being athletic.  But, I do count things like soccer and rugby and cross-country running, and biking as athletic.  I guess it's because they actually get your heart rate up to a significant level.  Maybe I'm confusing Cardiovascularly Taxing with Athletic.  I don't know.  But, anyway, due to a problem with my right eye, I was never "allowed" to play any type of game that would result in my body coming into contact with some other fast moving body or object.

And now my body is rejecting my attempts to play sports.  I practiced and played with the serious players here in Salt Lake for three weeks straight before the actual tryouts, and on the first day of tryouts, my leg cramped up, and I've been unable to walk normally for the past two weeks or so.  But, I made the team.  There's an A team and a B team.  I will be on the B team.  I'm quite happy with that, as I can't imagine the level of damage I'd do to my body if I was to try and play at the level that some of the better players play at.  I'll be going to a tournament in Boulder in a couple of weeks.  The cool thing is that a few of my friends from Crested Butte are going to be playing against us at that tournament.  I can't wait!

And, in the weeks that I couldn't bend my knee, I wasn't able to tend my lovely garden, but it seems to be doing quite well without me.  I have killed about 12 snails so far, and already my plants seem much happier.  My basil is still pretty sorry looking, but everything else is looking quite good.

Oh, and I'm looking for a house, and Jake has been helping me strengthen my leg by taking me biking, which I'm also starting to really like, and oddly, it doesn't hurt my knee nearly as much as ultimate.