This past Sunday the Gilkster and I were sitting on the deck of the Sugar Shack when the wind picked up and a birch tree toppled to the ground right before our eyes. It almost felt as though we were intruding on nature and naturally (pun alert!) it brought to mind the old philosophical question which no doubt still makes its way around college campuses: if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it does it make a sound? Well now I know--but if you need to find out for yourself, go sleep in the woods.