It's awesome. Where we are, the blackberries are just starting to ripen and they are going to be huge and plentiful. About a three weeks ago though, the black raspberries were ripe and for 3 days we gathered a record number of them. I love when you are hiking and out of nowhere come across the motherload! We had to go back to the car at one point to scrounge up some containers. I do think the heavy rain made a huge difference this year.

When I first tried Reddit, I posted an article about gardening that I wrote on my blog. The rules said that you could do that. Just to be clear, it's a friendly gardening blog about permaculture and organic gardening and not what I would think the average person would consider to be a spam site. I figured that some people in the subreddit would find it useful, which is why I write articles on my hobby in the first place. The reaction was very surprising to me. It reminded me of the scene from the Omen when the monkeys started jumping on the car, only in this case they were giant nerds. I remember the first comment I got said something to the effect of "didn't read, but I hate these people who think lawns are bad." As an aside, my article had nothing to do with that and was not controversial at all. Anyway, if you didn't read it, why are you commenting on it?? Then I was told that I needed to comment on other posts and post other things I thought were interesting, so I did and got secretly banned. Secretly banned? When I checked to see what the more popular people were doing, I saw a lot of crazy racists posts and a lot of spam garbage everywhere. To boot, these folks think they are superior. I just don't get it at all. It was truly shocking.