Prior to going back out to Mystery Cave again we spent a lot of time preparing. We made a squeeze box, which is a wooden box the opening of which can be adjusted in size. We could then crawl through the opening and measure to see how tight of a squeeze we could fit through.

“He's like in his thirties,” I protested, skeeved at the idea of being attracted to him. “Yeah, that's bit young, but young ones like that need a mature woman.” “Grandma!” Now I was even more skeeved by the notion that she was attracted to him.

But, because the first flush of growth is from a preformed bud and subsequent flushes are from buds developed during the current growing season, chilling directly affects only the first flush.

We would pop over the riverbank and come down hot (shooting) on a designated target. […] We started rolling in hot with rockets, then suddenly we started taking fire from the […]