After freezing rain and snow last week, perfect fall weather this weekend. Lauren came home on Friday, jealous that she is one of the St. Mary's College students that does not get to stay on the cruise ship to escape moldy dorm rooms. Why, when I was at the University of Connecticut if they had discovered mold in the dorm rooms, it would have been declared to be safer than the asbestos it was covering - and we would have used it to cover our feet for walking the 4 miles uphill in snow to get to our classes...
Saturday was yard work and radio nerd-dom in the annual ARRL CW Sweepstakes contest where I sit in the basement and go dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit from 5pm until 2am. Then Sunday morning* Carl and I hiked Patapsco State Park where the foliage is a bit faded but still purty. The trails were lousy with mountain bikers and older Asian folks out for hikes. We did a lot of moving off the trail while one or the other zoomed or ambled by. Outdoors Maryland had a TV segment on the park, so that might have accounted for some of the increase in people out there but it was probably mostly just the beeyootiful weather.
We did about an 8 mile loop, passing by the remains of an old house that each year gets more and more decrepit. When we returned to the start, the park fields were full with kids' baseball teams, playing for some reason in November, filling the air with that annoying CLOINK! that aluminum bats make. Why, grrr, when I played Little League we had to make our own bats out of real ash trees...
*And, grrr - when I was young we didn't try to save Daylight by rejiggering the clocks all the time, we just lived with whatever little daylight was available in the first place.
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