I'm not hot shit in a wineglass, more curried goat in a paper cup

We took our new bear-resistant food canister to the woods this year, but it didn't even get tested. ;) Baxter State Park is lovely as ever. We had a great time with E.B., walking quite a few very pretty trails, playing cards at the campsite, toasting marshmallows, reading, writing letters and journals, and listening to the rain on the tarp. Our rain god status has returned. :)

Eor made it to the top of Katahdin, and within less than a hundred feet of the summit cone, in pouring rain. With the summit within sight he realized that his arbitrarily selected return time had come (noon), so he turned around, sticking to the plan. He stopped many times on the way up to let his heart slow down, per doctor's orders regarding heart attack survivors, but reports that the rest of his body had no trouble at all and powered on up the whole way, so he's very happy. :)

I, however, was unable to accompany him. I went as far as Katahdin Stream Falls, but turned around there, and was wiped out when I got back to camp. I've been trying to keep up with him with regard to his rehab exercises, but have hit a wall which concerns me, so I'm going to be looking into this with my doctor.

All our stuff is now either on the line, sitting in the sun in the driveway, or in the washer at the moment, because it rarely stopped raining the entire time we were there. Sunny and lovely here, today, of course. ;)

It was a good trip, all in all. We got to try out a lot of our new backpacking gear, but in a controlled situation with car support.

I'm trying hard to not read any spoilers for HP & DH. Normally I don't care, I indulge in spoilers all over the place, but this time I want to try to go into the book blank, I guess just because it's the last one. Only problem is, I didn't pre-order it or make any plan for getting it soon. I'm sort of flailing, now.

I learned to tie a mooring hitch last night, because Eor set me down with instructions and said, "This would be a good one to know for next time we're camping." :) I feel much more piratical already! Well, hey, there IS more to being a pirate than just knowing the difference between walking the plank and keelhauling, right? I should know how to do a few decent knots.

( lying awake nights thinking about garb and shoes, and wasting all morning web walking )

Okay, french toast has been eaten, all we have left to do is dishes and we are bye-bye gone for most of (probably) four days. I really need this mini-vaca. I woke up twice in the night with bad dreams about work.