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I don't know why I didn't post saying we were back when we actually arrived, yesterday afternoon. Maybe I just didn't want to admit my birthday weekend was over. And today, it's my birthday.

I had a great time camping. Lovely, quiet, campground, Lafayette, on a steep hillside with the Pemigewassett River (not much more than a brook at that point) running along the bottom edge of the campground. It was raining Thursday evening when we got there, and continued on and off until Saturday morning. I finished reading "The Graveyard Game." (So, book When it broke we went for a walk - 2 miles down the Pemi River there's a whirlpool called The Basin which is cool. We also took lots of pictures of moss and mushrooms. :) Saturday afternoon we had sausages burned to splitting over the fire, because we'd become convinced of how goshawful tasty that is after cooking them with

littleredhead and

groundctrl over their brush fire last weekend, and it sprinkled on us a little, but there's not much that can distract me from good food after a good walk.

Sunday we broke camp early and went to Lincoln, where we had breakfast at Flapjack's, which I highly recommend. And then we meandered home by way of North Conway, where we stopped at the L.L. Bean factory store and got loot: the biggest items were a new wool blanket and a small end table with interchangeable tops to play chess, backgammon, Monopoly and Scrabble. We passed up an antique white coverlet for the bed, which I will probably regret.

And I have a package from my Mom! Birthday presents, which I've opened but not dug into as yet. Must go to work, now. :P

I slept so badly last night. Possibly because I had slept about 10 hours each night while at camp, but it seemed like more than just a lack of need for sleep. I had nightmares. Really yucky. And then when I'd wake up I'd start worrying about the end of the world. I was almost happy to see daylight.

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Happy birthday! I don't have the money for presents, but I can send lots of love.

I don't need lots of presents, anyway - your love is plenty enough for me! *hugs!* :)

Sounds like a good way to celebrate a birthday :)

I couldn't sleep last night either. Hopefully tonight will be better for both of us!

I hope so, too, but having a big cup of coffee (because I was so tired) probably won't help. (Because it's my birthday I made it a foofoo Starbuck's drink.)

Happy (late) birthday, darling! :-D Sounds a terrific weekend.

[sigh] And you've got me all nostalgic for my meat-consuming days with sausages burned to splitting... Food of the Gods, no question.

Food of the Gods. :D (They were chicken/apple sausages - do you think possibly you could get some sort of tofu substitute that might work?)

Kind of. :-) The Quorn and Linda McCartney veggie sausages are perfectly okay, but you can't burn Quorn. (I've tried. :-P) Their skins split, but they don't burn. And vice versa for the LMcC. Ah, me. Life is tough. ;-)

:wistfully remembers childhood weekly treat of sausage sandwiches in front of The Crystal Maze: