puzzling
With weather that varied between light rain and a near-freezing mist, I wasn't able to spend much time on the trail, and the few minutes I might have had were, instead, spent getting ready to drive up to New Hampshire to pick up my daughter-in-law and bring her back to her second home where we'll try to help her recover from her latest round of cancer surgery. When I left mid-morning, my wife and my granddaughter had settled in to work a jigsaw puzzle of 1,000 pieces. That, and keeping the wood stove stoked, would keep them busy for the eight hours it took me to head north then return with a precious but very sore cargo who got through the operation in reasonably good shape. The future, however, is as cloudy as the day.