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.

“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.

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 […]

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.