copy/paste from a reply I made to a friend...

The trip was good, and I can't believe neither of us has blogged about it, yet! I thought Eor would, but all he wrote was about books he read. Probably hoping to sit down and do it all justice at some point in the near future. We made it to the top! Thursday was a beautiful day for hiking, perfect temperature, not even too much wind.

Friday, when it poured buckets, we were safely snug in our camper. Saturday we hoped to go for a flatland walk, but it continued raining and then we ran out of drinking water, so we came home. And Eor immediately threw himself into doing stuff for the new place - shopping for curtains and other stuff we needed (we now have a LOT of glasses, because I had broken all we used to have).

Sunday was more of the same, with him putting up curtains and shelving brackets (and managing to hit his head rather painfully on one) and me running out to exchange curtains he didn't like and track down a particular style he wanted which is in short supply (Battenburg), and cooking chicken parm, and both of us doing a lot of laundry and dishes.

So we now have curtains everywhere but on the front door, which is great! This makes me feel a lot better as far as people looking in (I was feeling a bit like I lived in a fishbowl). The front door is still a bit of a problem. It's got the top and bottom rods, but we can't find any curtains with top and bottom rod pockets which are 31in apart. Wouldn't matter if we had a door, or even a curtain, across the doorway of our bedroom, but if I walk around the end of the bed on my side people could potentially see me from the road. It's hard to remember that when you're getting dressed in the morning!

I'd better get going, now. I have a dr's appointment at 1:30 and hoped to get the cleaning done in the old place this morning. Am dragging ass. Have made apple cinnamon muffins, put away dishes, scrubbed some things that the dishwasher didn't get clean, and started another load of laundry, but in fact have not been as productive as I would have preferred. Have, however, got pretty far into a book called "Corrupting Dr. Nice," (by John Kessel) which is turning out to be a lot more fun than I expected. It's completely crazy sci-fi about time travel with a very Jane Austen style romance woven in.

Also, my Mom has started posting old family photos with notations about who is who, which I'm really excited about!

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Washington subway crash kills 9, dozens injured
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090623/ts_nm/us_usa_trains_14
"...one train was stopped waiting to get the order to pass. ... The next train came up behind it and, for reasons that we do not know, collided into the back of that train,"

How much do you want to bet the trailing train driver was either on her cell phone or texting? Because this is almost identical to the crash in Boston last year (maybe longer ago?) for the same reasons. Well, for that one they said that she wasn't on her cell at the exact moment of the crash, but she'd just ended a call. NOBODY should be operating ANYTHING while on a cell, imho!

a little more about Katahdin

I realize I'm being completely scatterbrained, but I when I reposted my quickly written little entry from yesterday to my family group I added some more stuff, so figured I might as well repost that stuff here as well...

Previously years when we'd been up Katahdin there'd been so much cloud cover that we couldn't even see how far we were from the top. This time we not only got to the top, we went a little way out on the Knife's Edge just to look at it, before we decided we were out of time and had to start back.

One of the reasons we started back quicker than we might have and pushed ourselves a little hard at first was to catch up with a father and his 9 yr old daughter who had come up Abol trail and were going down Hunt trail. Matt realized that they might have trouble going down over the Iron Ladder not having seen it previously - it's much easier if you went over it on the way up so you know what to expect. They appreciated our help, and the girl did not want to let us out of her sight after that - I think she was afraid she wouldn't make it out without guides. :)