The Oxnard Hippie or the Honey Do Do

An excellent mostly fruit drink for writers who should be living in reclusive yurts, but are finding time to write while their handsome, adorable, distracting and hypnotizing families are catching awesome rockshows with nifty new groups like The Daggers.

[Update: Music was too loud for my husband and our wee six-year-old. Hubby doesn't know how he escaped punkrock band years unscathed. Ptown playground was creepy...too many unattended adults working it out on monkey bars and making bench presses of slides.]

The Oxnard Hippie, or the Honey Do Do...hitchhike the galaxy, glean low hanging fruit, extract fresh honey from a beehive, snuggle up in a jungle of ripe melons for an afternoon nap, play a game of shuffleboard with a nice old lady down the street wearing a moomoo, and make a yurt your second home,...all in a tall refreshing glass.

Instructions:

* Chop 1/2 a ripe honey dew melon. Place into a large glass vessel.

* Add 4 ounces of clover honey

* Add 3-8 50 ml shots of bottom shelf rum (You're a writer, remember? Start with 3 if you usually get zoinked inhaling sage smoke or Indian temple incense alone. 8 shots is a sharing portion, people!

* In a blender, place the mixture of honey dew, clover honey, rum and 5 sprigs of fresh spearmint

* Add 5 ice cubes, blend until smooth. To a clean glass pitcher add several ice cubes, and your blended mixture. Pour the Oxnard Hippie into a wine glass or your best mason jar! Garnish with fresh spearmint, and serve immediately before separation occurs.

If you want a non-alcoholic, mood-enhancing beverage try adding a strong infusion of damiana, saw palmetto berries, or a combo of lemongrass and horny goat weed. Pretty decent flavor! Steep 4 ounces of herb or herbs in one cup of boiling water until it cools. Strain. Add this instead of the rum.