Chicken and I went for a nice little hike today, and we discovered a few things… First we discovered that the creek where the Chickens learned to swim is all dried up. But while walking along the dry creek bed, we discovered blackberries!!! Fresh, delicious, blackberries grown in the bright California sun and ripe for the picking!! Tons of them. I was so excited, I picked and ate blackberries until my teeth were full of seeds and I had been stabbed by blackberry brambles more times than I could stand. The best ones were of course out of reach, but I tried to get them anyway, resulting in more bramble stabbings. It was so awesome and delicious… For a few minutes I wished I was a bear so I wouldn’t care about the brambles and I could eat all the blackberries… I don’t even know if bears eat blackberries, in fact I doubt that they have the digital dexterity to pick them, but if I was a bear would so get down on those berries…. Chickens didn’t really care for the blackberries. She found some nice horse poop to eat instead.
). Melons are in their own category and should be eaten alone. Usually, this is not an issue. I usually don’t mix fruits at all. I usually will eat, for example, an apple in the morning, followed 30 minutes later by some strawberries. Usually. However, I have been wont to enjoy the occasional smoothie, maybe for breakfast or a snack or a late night dessert. Unbeknownst to me, though, I have been committing gastrointestinal sins!! What I learned sure explains a lot of things. This smoothie I really enjoy from a favorite cafe of mine, is a melon-berry-mint concoction. It is oh-so-sweet and yummy but I always felt a little funny after eating it. Now I know why. The specific combinations of fruits are very important to prevent the “melon belly” I was feeling after these delicious beverages. So I made a little guide to stick on the fridge to help make smoothies delicious and digestable…. There are some variances in this list based on which website you check. This is what I have been able to figure out based on my research. 
