26 July 2012

Left Virginia at the crack of dawn where the humidature (effective temperature given the humidity) was supposed to reach 109°F today.  After hiking a few feet on the Appalachian Trail yesterday, felt good to sit down for awhile… like maybe five minutes.  Even with moderate to heavy traffic the whole way, and having to go all the way around DC on the I-495 beltway ‘cause somebody forgot to put up a sign that says you can’t get to I-295 from anything but the right-hand lane which you have to enter before the Eisenhower Road exit (5 miles earlier), arrived in Brandon a “mere” 8½ hours (and 1,600mg of Ibuprophen) later.  Temperature inside Delores was a frigid 67°.  Had to open some windows to warm the place up!  Lake temperature is 79°… maybe I’ll sleep there tonight.  First of the Kingsley corn for dinner… yummy as always.  Opened the utensil drawer to get some tongs for removing said corn from the cooking water and discovered beaucoup mouse droppings and a wine bottle stopper that is a lot shorter than it used to be.  Set up both humane traps in hopes that the tipsy mouse (mice?) will be lacking judgment tonight.