I have to say... I had a great cycle and I don't think the Cheese was the best of the best. I can't enter anymore until January. Rats! In retrospect I think the whole cycle won the prizes. The Cheese does not stand alone. I'm sure the bulk of the votes came from people who have followed along, both the vocal and un-vocal, many for multiple journals, and I'm flattered. Thanks again!
I'm not sure what to do with the bounty of prizes. I've already decided that most of the SNS nutrients are going to be donated to a school garden project that I'm associated with. The plots are organic and there is, of course, a limited budget. It will be fun to discuss the short vs long-term benefits of commercial organic nutrients, carbon footprint, etc. There will be some fun opportunities for side by sides comparing output between the compost and mulch enhanced native soil alone compared to plants in the same soil fed the veg and bloom boosters and/or the full on nutrients. The pest control stuff will be equally fun for the students. I can not begin to express how grateful I am to be able to make a significant in-kind
donation to the program. I'm passionate about the whole community agriculture and food justice thing, as some of you know. The SNS folks might be happier if I used their gifts for growing cannabis... Maybe not? It feels right to me! I'm riotously enthusiastic about it.
I'm somewhat ashamed to admit being a hopeless nicotine addict. Quitting relapses have been frequent over the years. Been getting by on vaping for a while, but I'm not one of those cloud geeks. Just give me a dependable nicotine delivery system dammit! Never mind that.
I was in the vape store where they keep me good with a dependable smokeless nicotine delivery system. Bless their hearts. Had to look at dry herb vaporizer and concentrate pens while I was there. Ended up with one of these for ~ 25 bucks. It is a ceramic atomizer that fits on a mod. It is for waxy and oily concentrates.
That thing is a "ceramic doughnut." Load it up with your favorite oily or waxy concentrate and vape away. Sounded good. Had a couple of cans of aerosol organic solvent on hand. Took a gallon sized ziplock of fresh frozen Cheese popcorn and sugar out and made me some Cheese wax.
Looks like crumbled Cheese.
I have to say, I can have either big or little puffs of terpine rich-Cheesy goodness at will. Before posting this I looked to see if any of the
sponsors had these ceramic doughnut things. It was an impulse buy. I don't know how thorough I was but they are kind of a new thing and I didn't find any. If I did I would give y'all a pointer.
Good grief. It tastes really good and I'm stoned to the bone...
The colors in the Chitral are just lovely. It's been a joy to watch you play in dirt again. Keep it up. Please. 
... same soil all the way.