Interesting Blog - Appalachian Trail Adventure

One of my downline with Stampin' Up!, Emily from Indiana - her son and daughter are hiking the Appalachian Trail this spring and summer.  Back in Carmel, we had a guy who gave up his full time job to take Indianapolis inner city kids out in nature, including some hikes on the Appalachian Trail.  Several years ago, I got to go camping and hiking quite a bit on the weekends and really liked being out in the woods like that so hearing about peoples' hikes on the Appalachian Trail has always been very interesting to me.

My friend, Emily, is pretty nervous about her kids being out there.  At first it was her husband and daughter, Mary, and their dog hiking, but the plan was for the dad to come home and their son would join his sister.  As of this morning, Emily says that her son, Will, has symptoms of the norovirus which a lot of  hikers in the area are getting.  They're trying to get a shuttle from the trail to a hotel and having some problems and it's raining. 

If you'd like to read about their Appalachian Trail Adventure and follow them, here is the LINK to Mary's blog and the beginning of their trip on April 11th.   You'll see (concerned) comments from Mary's mom, Emily (my friend), see lots of pictures of the amazing scenery and hear about seeing bears and snakes.  They've had a pretty wet start to their trip.

We're still on our rain delay for planting unfortunately with a very wet forecast for the next week.  Today is sunny so Bill and Tim hope they might get to spray the last corn field we planted - if the wind dies down and it's dry enough.  The wind usually dies down in the evenings so we'll see.  I've thought about heading to Indiana for a few days - that would be sure to change the weather for us if I was too far away to help!