Some Sun But Mostly Overcast and Hiking Overland Trail

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Mt Pleasant Rd Parking Area

Climbing Over Barbed Wire Fence

Up later than usual, sun blinding in the living room, though there's a cloud cover just above the tree line. It's around 35 degrees already, so the snow is beginning to melt in the yard, the gutters drip, so I am wondering what to do this morning, if the lake is good enough to ski or should we hike somewhere else though I ground may also be sof and muddy in the woods. Decisions, Decisions.

Yesterday, we drove off to Sherman, to walk an area of the Western Overland Trail, which we had not hiked before.  We parked at the designated parking area, just of Mt. Pleasant Rd, about a mile or two east of Sherman.  We then walked south through fields, woods, lowlands, to the Sherman Rd (426), about 35 minutes one way and back.  It felt good to be out in the woods, the ground for the most part was snow covered and crunched when we walked.  It was hilly, surprisingly so, giving interesting vistas at times.  We did have to climb over a barbed wire fence twice going, twice coming back, but the trail guides had built a ladder, two sided, so you walked up one side, down the other, to get you over the wire.  Interesting.  There were no downed tress on this section of the trail though about two weeks ago, I had walked the other end and encountered lots of them.

We got home around 12:30, just in time to put the onion rye bread Evie had made into the oven.  This is an old recipe, from the wife of an old Robert College faculty member's wife, Gene Higgins, and it was one of our favorites.  It makes two great loaves, one which we gave to our neighbor, John Johnston because he had lent us a pair of skates for the girls to use this past weekend.

For dinner, we had spaghetti and meatballs and watched the rest of Downton Abbey.  It was the final show of the season, so lots of knots were tied, the most important being the imprisoning of Bates for murdering his wife, and Matthew and Mary finally declaring their love for each other.  If only they had done this in the initial episode we would not have had a series.  I was getting tired of their mooning over each other, yet denying that they should love each other.  The casting and the minor characters all seem very real to me, one of the reasons I really enjoyed the show.  And the half hour look at how the series was made also was interesting as we got to see the various characters as they are in real life, quite a shock to see them in modern clothing and hairdos.