The Biggest Challenge

We leave on a one month vacation tomorrow at the worst time with five huge bunches of bananas about to come ripe, both mango trees loaded with fruit, way too much starfruit, and even the lilikoi vines are ready for picking.

As many of you know I am cutlery challenged. Getting food to my mouth has always been an adventure with some of each meal invariably ending up on my shirt or my pants. The bits of food in my shirt pocket I can understand, but when I change for bed at the end of the day there is often a little tidbit lodged in my belly button. How does that happen? Day after day? Perhaps this is what is meant by "adventures in dining."

This is leading somewhere... I think...

Oh, yes... The biggest challenge that I have faced in some time confronts me today. I have to pack for five weeks on the road in a suitcase which is far smaller than I remember it being. And I have to do it taking into account my propensity for spilling food on myself. It should be interesting...