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This video is mostly about my trip to the United States, but I'll start off with my
okra plant and end with my okra plant. You can see the growth before I left for the States
and then after I came back. My father-in-law took care of the plant. We just had a rain.
From these angles you can see little droplets on there. Somehow I thought it got wet in
here even though I have an overhang. And I checked it out and there are these little
translucent little balls. They are like one sixteenth of an inch. Or even smaller- on
thirty-second of an inch I guess. People mention having these things in their soil, especially
with Miracle Grow....talkin about polymers and stuff like that and other people are talking
about snails eggs. But I really can't find anything about this. I am really concerned.
I don't know if I should be picking them off my leaves and the stems or what. So, if anybody
has an idea, please leave a comment. One of my neighbors is also collecting rain
water and I never noticed that before. I've got two buckets out there which will last
me, about a week for what I do on the first floor here. It's just cool that I am not alone
in doing this. Took a trip up to Upstate New York and we
went to Ithaca. Ithaca is home to Cornell University. The town itself is beautiful and
it's right on Lake Cayuga which has spectacular scenery. There's waterfalls everywhere. Cornell
University, if you know, some of my Taiwanese friends might know, the past (Taiwanese) president,
Lee Dung-Hui, he went there for Agricultural Education. He got his PhD there. What I am
really impressed with is the amount of land they have there devoted to gardens and orchards.
It was just beautiful. We are at Cornell University looking at all
their plants. Everything is labeled. Smells great. Hairy Mountain Mint.
And it goes on and on...all the way around! There was a garden area devoted to the history
of gardening so they had five or six plots which would replicate how somebody would farm
through the different ages going from the start of our country up until modern day and
how gardens have changed and evolved over time. So it was quite fascinating. I liked
it, but it was raining! The farmer's market was so convenient for
the vendors. They drove their trucks right up to the back of where they show their wares
and sell their fruits and vegetables and their crafts.
Back of the farmers' market. There's where we ate last night, if you can
see that tent. All the way down there, that white tent. There was a band playing and there
was a restaurant there. After a week my (wife's) relatives from Taiwan
joined me. I had two nieces, two nephews, and a sister-in-law and we went to I think
four or five states. We went down to Baltimore Inner Harbor and one of the things we did
down at Baltimore Inner Harbor was to go to the aquarium. It's very famous. But the aquarium
is not only an aquarium...There is also a kind of a tropical rain forest room which
was fascinating. This morning I took a run on that red pathway that you can see up there.
So I went across the road and went through that park area and down to those buildings.
They are apartments. They have docks and everything. This is Baltimore Inner Harbor.
You like this place> YEAH! Hello! We are in the... aquarium! Aquarium!
Ah, that's a chocolate tree? Cacao. Oh, yeah, look at that.
Okay, so they have headphones in their ears and they are being told what to do. So, so
far...now they are going slow again. There's a trapeze artist up there. So people were
going backwards, and they were going slow, then they were fast. Then they just froze
in place. And what else? High fives! High Fives at everybody. That was weird.
This is Chinatown and then there is a sign up ahead there...in white, they got it blocked,
says Little Italy. So we just came from South Street Seaport, where that weird event was
happening. Now, we're going to the UN through Chinatown. Every...All these signs are in
Chinese. Oh, wait that's video...Sorry!
We are eating a Philadelphia cheese steak. What do you think? I think it's big. It's
big. Good! Good? It is their right. It is their duty to throw
off such government to provide new guards for their future security. WE!
Lafayette College has gardens that the students can use and the students grow food that actually
ends up in the dining halls and I just thought that was really amazing. And I met a couple
of professors there. They were very nice. Every plot is different and the things that
are on the gardens are all, benches and what have you, are all built with recycled materials.
Sheds and any out-buildings that they have. Okay these are the gardens of Lafayette College,
so we're gonna check this out. So the professors have plots and the students
have plots. They are all different. There is a walkway. Oh yeah. mulch. yeah.
Beans, those look like tomatoes, sunflowers back there, I see corn. There are berries.
Different kinds of salad green. This is a pretty cool rain water collection
system. The water comes off that room and goes...see the drainage... goes into that
tank there on this side and then there's a tank on the other side. And they have solar
here and they have wind. Could be generating a pump.
We went down to Washington DC and I was able to wake up in the morning before anyone else
was up and run around what they call the Mall area. From our hotel to the Capitol and then
down towards the Washington Monument. If you are familiar with that area, it passes the
Smithsonian Museums. A gift from my mom...she knows that I am really
into eating fruit right now. And so, this is a great gift!
We're on our trail. These are my pacers. There's one. Here's another one! We did 4.3 miles
just finishing up here. Probably do five miles today. The other day we did 16 kilometers.
That's ten miles. What's up buddy? I'm fine. How are you doing, Lawrence? Good! Chasing
the guy...What? Chasing the guy let me be tired.
All of my herbs did really well at my father-in-law's factory.
Except for my rosemary which was..It my fault. I put it in a pot without a hole in the bottom,
so...and he waters a lot so It kind of drowned it out. But there is my thyme and I was able
to use that in some cooking. So, looking good. So this is my okra that my father-in-law was
watching. And look at those. They are nice big okra. Yeah!