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September 27, 2007 – Schenectady, New York

Submitted by woodstrehl on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 5:23pm.

We have settled into Schenectady to visit family and recover from our last nine day walk across MA and VT.  Our friends Jane and Bob completed the Appalachian Trail on the last leg of this walk.  Wonderful! We hope to finish the Northeast part of the AT over the next week and a half with weather at least half as good as during this last walk.  Sunny and cool every day with chilly nights.  Superb hiking weather.  

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September 6, 2008 – Eastham, MA

Submitted by woodstrehl on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 7:26am.

We are departing as the Nor’easter arrives.  First foul weather since we have been at Cape Cod.  We left the Appalachian Trail last week after completing a final section of trail in Maine.  Having finished the entire trail in the states of Maine and New Hampshire, we can say that the hardest is over.  This year’s walks led us to treats of chanterelles and blueberries.  Wonderful.  As always the rugged northern mountains gave great views of themselves.  Fabulous.

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August 23, 2008 - Twin Mountain, NH

Submitted by woodstrehl on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 5:52pm.
We have just completed a three day hike on the A.T. in western Maine and have now finished the trail across both Maine and New Hampshire. This gives satisfaction because frankly these are tough mountains and we wanted to finish the Trail here while we were still able.
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August 7, 2008 – Newry, ME

Submitted by woodstrehl on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 9:55am.
Today we were supposed to be hiking near here, but the weather has kept us in. We enjoyed a fine if somewhat damp walk ending Monday of this week between Carratunk and Monson, ME. We found it hard but strengthening. The weather promoted fungi and we dined on oyster mushrooms and two kinds of chanterelles. We snacked on blueberries and saw one moose. There were fine views from two rock-topped peaks. We camped near the peaks where beds of spruce leaves provided fine padding and where the altitude discouraged mosquitoes.
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July 31, 2008 – Greenville, ME

Submitted by woodstrehl on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 9:53am.
We are camped in the motorhome at the summer home of friends on Wilson Pond. Their one-acre woodlot is similar to ours and provides a wonderful view of the lake and the mountains beyond. Loons call at night.
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When Does A Run Score On A Double Play?

Submitted by Mark on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 12:55pm.
Mike and I had an interesting time at the Yankees game yesterday. It was a seesaw game but we were both happy where it ended up. I have a question about one play that I was hoping someone could clarify for me. In the fourth inning with one out, the bases were loaded with Giambi on first, Abreu on second and Jeter on third. Nady hit a fly to left field that was caught. The runners on second and third tagged and ran to third and home respectively. I thought Jeter crossed home plate before Abreu was tagged out at third but the run was not counted.
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Robert's Stockade sidewalk work reported in the Albany TU 7/16/2008

Submitted by Patty on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 1:34pm.
Stockade residents shape streetscape By LAUREN STANFORTH, Staff writer First published: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 SCHENECTADY -- Residents of the Stockade neighborhood hope all of its narrow streets will one day be redesigned in the same spirit as part of North Ferry Street was recently. Property owners on the street were intimately involved in the design, from choosing the color of the sidewalk to the brick pattern that exists between the sidewalk and the newly repaved street.
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Whispering Pines Girl Scout Memories "songs"

Submitted by Patty on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 10:55am.
White Coral Bells White coral bells upon a slendor stalk Lillies of the vally deck my garden walk Oh, don't you wish That you could hear them ring That will happen only when the fairies sing Ash Grove Down yonder green valley Where streamlets meander When twilight is fading I pensively rove Or at the bright moontide In solitude wander Amid the dark shades Of the lonely ash grove 'Tis there where the blackbird Is cheerfully singing Each warbler enchants With his notes from the tree; Ah, then little think I Of sorrow or sadness The ash grove entrancing
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June 25, 2008 – Qualla, North Carolina

Submitted by woodstrehl on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 4:02pm.
Having remained stationary, there has been less reason to report our progress these months of May and June. That is about to change as we relocate to our little house on South Mountain in Pennsylvania next week, but there we have no Internet access and only poor telephone access, so I provide this update of the pilgrims’ progress.
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A great slideshow about where all of our plastic bags end up

Submitted by Kara on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 8:44am.
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/MULTIMED... You have to use the scroll down button on the bottom right to go through it.
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