I'm glad you survived your hike. Life is what happens while you're making other plans. Or maybe I should quote Robert Burns about the best laid plans of mice and men, but I'm not sure I can manage the Scots dialect.

Ally baked cookies this afternoon for a Young Communists League meeting tomorrow at which the movie Capitalism: A Love Story is being shown, so between that and dinner (baked chicken with barbecue sauce), our kitchen's been hot all afternoon. Thankfully it's cooler now.