Weekend

[squeequeg]

Good things about the weekend:

- Climbed Monadnock on Friday, taking the long slow Cascade Link to the Pumpelly. It was a perfect day for it: warm and sunny and bright, few people even at the summit, dragonflies and hawks circling the summit and cold sweet water from Falcon Spring. I love this mountain.
- Disapproving chipmunk on the way down the mountain. Seriously, it sat there, about two yards away, staring at us and making that "chrrt!" noise over and over, as if chiding us for barging in on it. Didn't even move as we climbed right past it. Eventually it scampered to the next rock and eyed us balefully as we left.
- I couldn't have asked for better weather at the beach. I swam out to the rock twice, found it both times without any trouble (even though one of my landmarks appears to be gone) and spent evening hours dozing in the water.
- Barely any sunburn, even after all that time outside. I do have a couple of weird crescents around my shoulders where I missed spots, but I'm not a lovely shade of lobster.
- Finished a story to go to BRAWL this weekend. It's not bad. I need to start writing some different things or I'll get stuck in a rut, but this one was good.
- Watched Sherlock Holmes with thomascantor Saturday night. Oh dear Lord, what a goofily fun movie. I'm not sure that it really counts as "good," but I sure as hell had fun watching it.
- Pancakes Sunday morning!
- Slow mornings. Late nights. The sound of wind in the trees and the smell of sun on drystone walls.

Bad things about the weekend:

- Ow ow ow all of my muscles have been sore since coming down the mountain on Friday ow ow ow everything hurts ow why did I get old?

Most important thing about the weekend:

- One year together with thomascantor. (Okay, so it's closer to fourteen years, but one year with these little gold things on our hands.) He makes the world more awesome every day.

Comments

[balsamicdragon.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!!! :)

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Monadnock! First mountain I ever climbed (when I was five). Almost didn't make it but, so the story goes, found a patch of wild blueberries, stripped it clean, and ran to the top.

[ellinor.livejournal.com]

time flies so wonderfully. :)

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! Glad Monadnock was fun (we have yet to climb it...)

You're not old, you're just out of practice climbing mountains.

[esqgirl.livejournal.com]

Great to hear your voice, even if virtually. And a very happy anniversary to both of you!

[ltlbird.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! I hear you on hiking soreness kicking your butt. The hike I did in Maine last summer had me hobbling for days, especially on stairs. Ow.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

You forgot: this is also the anniversary of ME GETTING ANOTHER BROTHER which is infinitely more important than whatever ringy-thingy y'all were talking about. I mean, he's an organist and everything! This new-brother sh*t is fantastic. Oh yeah, and congratulations or something.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This being married stuff is awesome.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

The blueberries were still in bloom when we were up, but they were everywhere. Yay blueberries!

I can't remember how old I was when I climbed it for the first time. Seven? Ten? Somewhere around there.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Doesn't feel like a year at all.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Good to hear you too! We should meet sometime soon.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Stairs. The bane of my existence. It's worse going down for some reason.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, new brothers are awesome. I got mine first, though. Oh yeah, and thank you or some shit.

[megastoat.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!! your combined awesomeness is a wonderful thing to have in the world!

(and yay for disapproving chipmunks!)

[sal-sal.livejournal.com]

I HAVE TWO!

[sal-sal.livejournal.com]

Which landmark appears to be gone?

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

All of Antrim. Gnomes ate it. You didn't know?

[sal-sal.livejournal.com]

You know what's funny about that? The gnomes.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

I HAVE TWO AS WELL! AND ONE IS NOT YOUR BROTHER AT ALL!!!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

It was so great -- it kept chirping at us, and then when we got back to the cabin, another chipmunk sat outside the door and started in on it. Maybe I smell funny?

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

I had trouble matching up the flagpole and the stovepipe -- the flagpole's getting harder to see, and there's a birch tree that looks very like it from a distance.

Wait. You guys are glasses-wearers. How can you even see these?

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

What's left can still serve tasty pizza, though.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

What the hell's that???

[sal-sal.livejournal.com]

Squinting. Last time I was there (Holy shit, that was a while ago), I had the same problem with the flagpole/stovepipe. Think we can get those folks to chop down/move that birch? Without that, the rock could be pretty difficult to find.

[megastoat.livejournal.com]

I suspect a woodland conspiracy. Be wary when approaching trees and shrubs. I will try to use my stoatish influence in your favor.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

...There's a flagpole?

No wonder I flounder so much.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Obviously, the only solution is to sneak onto their land and paint the flagpole bright pink.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Not for your defective eyes, there isn't.

There's the stump-rock-tree triangle, there's the V in the rocks with the tree behind it, and there's the stovepipe/flagpole matchup. What landmarks have you been using?

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Ummm...the...ummmmmmmm....beach?