Must. Touch. Rock.

Rain, rain please come back or my plants will die from the sun's attack! I am so sick of the meteorologists calling for rain (which keeps me from climbing outside) and then it's sunny without a cloud in the sky. Oh wait, the rain will come out of nowhere and pour for a few minutes. This isn't the kind of rain that takes away the humidity; it adds to it. LAME! But want to know something super cool? Aaron will be in Raleigh in just a few hours!! I never, ever want to go this long without seeing him again. it sucks.

Sooo... can y'all tell I'm a little cranky? I just want to get my hands on real rock again. THAT IS ALL I WANT MOTHER NATURE! STOP RAINING ON ME AND ROCKS SO I CAN GO CLIMBING AGAIN!!! Phew. That feels good to get that out! Since the weather has been a slight pain in the rump, I have been amping up my workouts in the gym. I have the sore muscles to prove it if you would like to verify.

Be like a tree even if it means standing alone.

Y'all want to know what really sucks? Hitting a climbing plateau and not seeing improvement. Ugh, I was walking on a plateau for awhile but not anymore! I can consistently on-site 5.10s (a few of them still trip me up). Improvement is amazing. I also learned that 5.11s aren't as scary as I thought - they are actually mighty fun. And I decided that I will skip the V2s. I will go to the V3 & V4s. I have been able to on-site a few threes and am projecting a few fours :)  So that makes me really happy. I can see my bouldering paying off when I'm sport climbing as well. Gosh climbing is the shit!

So besides wanting to get outside to climb, my life has been pretty boring. So...I'm going to list off a bunch of cool facts about trees and plants in general. Please do not excuse my brilliant knowledge of plants. We need plants just as much as they need us. Geek Mode: ON.

*27,000 trees are required to produce the amount of toilet paper the world consumes in a day. A DAY!! You don't need have a roll to wipe your hineys!!

*One tree can absorb as much carbon in a year as a car produces while driving 26,000 miles.

*The average life span of a tree in an urban/city area is only 8 years (HEARTBROKEN)

*Common English Oak (Quercus robur) can support 324 taxa of lichens living directly on the tree :)

*There are more than 80,000 species of edible plants.

* 90% of the foods that humans consume come from just 30 plants.

Put lots of colors of food on your plate! It's delicious!

*70,000 plant species are used for medicinal purposes.

*80% of Earth's natural forests have been cleared or destroyed (DEVASTATED).

I DON'T LIKE THIS ONE BIT!!

*68% of plants are in danger of going extinct (SUPER SAD TIMES).