Fruit & Crashes.

Jake and I went over to the neighbor's and picked a bunch of plums and grapes. They taste amazing. The house we got them from is vacant but the owner gave the other neighbor permission to pick them and so he let us into the backyard and said it was okay. I know that there has been some controversy lately over harvesting from vacant homes, especially when some of them weren't actually vacant.

It cracked me up that a neighbor offered to let us use one of their boxes (we were unaware of the plums and only took one box) that had once been full of "real fruit" fruit snacks where the second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup, when they had this bounty of fresh fruit, for free, right next door.

On an unrelated note, my dad wrecked his Harley over the weekend which really stressed me out. I dislike being so far away when he's in the hospital. The bike was pretty badly damaged but luckily he only broke his heel. He's going to have to have surgery and will have a long recovery time but at least he's alive. The very first thing that smacked the ground was his head, but as he lives in Oregon, he was wearing a helmet which probably saved his life. I just want to appeal to any of you who ride but live in a state without helmet laws, please, please, please, wear a helmet. My dad is an experienced rider who has been riding for years and rides frequently, you never know what will happen out on the road so please take precautions to protect your life.