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BCT hike: Map 6, Lowell Rd turn in Section S to Rt 2
I can recommend the Emerson-Thoreau Amble and the Hapgood Wright Town Forest for hiking. I saw some inquisitive mosquitoes but none bit today. If you go any later in the year, take bug repellent just in case. In the forest, there are some steep hill sections. In the Amble, there is mud. As long as you are prepared, enjoy! Good wildlife. I could ( Read more... ) -
rum in Medford?
I was walking around Medford Square today, a place I mostly try to avoid for traffic reasons, and saw a marker telling about the four rum distilleries that used to be spitting distance from the bank at the point in the square. Who knew? -
Breakheart has a lot of hill terrain
I orienteered. galaneia has been doing a good job getting out there. Today's meet was less than fifteen minutes from my front door. chiefoperator enabled. The rain stayed light. Oh, hell, ran out of excuses, so went to do the yellow course. My time was uninspiring, but the course was a bit of a challenge at my current fitness level and I came in 14th of 21 so it didn't ( Read more... ) -
letterboxing in Winchester
I needed to get out in the sunshine and get some exercise. I also needed to conserve spoons for other activities, so no Concord hiking today. Winchester has a Town Forest. It has letterboxes. I haven't letterboxed in a while, so grabbed my gear and out I went. The venue is better in early spring than later when the vegetation gets denser. -
Mooned!
I was inducted into Carolingia's Order of the Moon (baronial arts&sciences) on Saturday. I was asked last spring, but it took this long to get all the ducks in a row. Gundormr's speech, as I recall it, recognized my achievements in the art and science of musician wrangling, aka cat herding. Not quite what I expected. I guess my primary SCAdian ( Read more... ) -
Teddy is vet-certified as FAT
Teddy had a well-piggy visit today because it had been more than a year and chiefoperator thought he was FAT. His vet's professional opinion is that he is healthy but should be on a diet. Since she knows we measure stuff anyway, she asked us to cut his pellet ration (which he eats ALL of, and quickly) by 20%. He can eat as much hay as he wants. It is hard for ( Read more... ) -
Adam Vinatieri's great-great-grandfather was Custer's bandmaster
I was not thinking about football at all. I was looking at the website for the National Music Museum in Vermillion SD, a place I did not know about at all until I went to a gallery talk by the music curator at the MFA. The NMM has an online gift shop, which I cruised to see if anything would particularly call to me, and saw a listing for a CD ( Read more... ) -
BCT hike: Map 6, a little more of section C
This is the first hike this season to feel like winter. The woods were mostly dry, but the chill and a few wet leaves reminded me that I should put my Yaktrax in the day pack. Today's hike was in the Spring Hill Conservation land in Acton. I walked from the Spring Hill Rd. trailhead straight on almost to the Nashoba Brook land. The theme of the ( Read more... ) -
BCT hike: Map 6, section B and a little of section C
There is a gap between where I left off and where the directions for this map start. The first point is labelled B, so I guess they've left room for A when that gap is finished. I drove past the trail-to-be on my way home and, where it was pretty badly overgrown in mid-October, it appears cleared though not finished ( Read more... ) -
I was in Mr. Pep's way
He was polite about it, let me stroke his cheek a little without freaking out, but was clearly impatient for me to get my hand out of his house, out of his way, so he could GET THE COOKIE NOW! Which he did by sticking his head through the house window and snatching it up from the pellet dish I had "hidden" it in. I don't know how many more seconds ( Read more... )