Taking Care of Benjamin

I think we travel too much.

This became apparent today when a friend of mine, who has been mentioned in this blog under the guise of H. and in connection with tequila, started talking about Benjamin. I don't know anybody called Benjamin.

Now, H. is a trusted friend and during our absense he waters our plants. Most of our plants we leave at home, because they only require watering once a week. But two weeks ago as we were leaving (on a jet plane) we had a basil plant. Basil is a thirsty herb and needs to be watered every day. That's why we took the basil over to H.'s house and left it at his mercy.

Today he brought the plant back and it was doing fine. Later, at an Irish music concert to honor the tradition of Halloween, we started talking about a possible skiing trip to the Alps and H. asked if anybody will be taking care of Benjamin, meaning the basil plant.

You know you travel too much when your housesitters start naming your plants.