Deglutition: Difficult.

Every kid, well, speaking from experience, every boy (and probably every girl) once had, thought they had, or tried to make
a cave/fort/hideout/secret place. Some never gave it up.
Some didn't have to.


This is a hole with no name. Every village, every small town has children of all ages who know where these places are.
The names they might carry are personal and unrecorded, just like the depths to which they have been explored and the depths
to which they have not.
I found these, one day. From the inside out and outside in ... ...mystery and curiosity. Every bend a milestone, every bend a footnote to the next milestone.
Thousands of caves are without names. Thousands are the former and current hideouts and secret places of once and current kids.
Thousands are the hideouts of kids yet to come. Waiting to be discovered. Looking for a secret occupant. Waiting for discovery.
Standing thousands of years in the jungles without witness
I forgot most of the terms once dangled before me. Karst. Graben. Cenotes. Some flood back when the batteries fade and the way back seems sketchy. Be Prepared. Boyscout memories seem all the more important.
Not that prepared, turning back.
Another time.
Another cave.

Knot in Belize

Things are Knot what they seem.....

Long necked gourds, are knot[ted] what they seem.

Warmth in Belize makes such a thing much

easier than Michigan, (Especially in February).

The most common descriptive terms here ...

... are "Pretty", and "Nice".

They are applied to many things, including

and not limited to Food items.

It seems at least in the south, that many things are ...

...well... ... most things are considered Food.

Even decorative gourds are eaten (Knot these)

and -while I've never heard an Armadillo called pretty,

they are called "Nice" and for the same reasons.
In truth, ... ...in terms of edibility...
...they are kind of nice.

In a Porkish sort of

"doesn't taste like Chickenish" sort of way.

They [armadillos] are nicer young, just like ornamental gourds.

Green Vacations and redeployment ~vs ~recycle

Green is a catch all phrase this year I guess which can be bad for recycling, as it signifies a trend rather than an understanding. Trends run a course.
There are places where Eco tours are a way of life, where ecology is an understanding, where Green is not a color.
Toledo, the Toledo Guesthouse project. the Bladen Reserve, things that have stood waiting for the term "Green" to arrive.

Do you recycle? I guess I don't. Do I reemploy / redeploy? I guess I must... ... as I never seem to throw anything away. Looking around,

I guess all of my tarps and storm curtains were once a billboard in Miami. I guess this orchid "bath" ...
...used to be my garbage can lid, a coffee can, and a piece of sewer pipe.

and.. ...well...

...its Green.