Phyllis, Abby and I didn’t do Pleasant mountain on Saturday but did Bald Pate instead. Went all the way to summit and got back just in time to avoid rain. We had a nice picnic lunch on the way. Got no Ticks! Nice walk and great to travel Bald Pate again.

Tony loaned me his book, “Nice Work” by David Lodge, a British novelist. It’s an amusing encounter between a nervous conservative factory manager and a leftist artsy academic woman. She’s in a government program to “shadow” the factory manager for better academic and industrial communications.

Slept better the last two days but still have the big D. You know, diarrhea? Ursula at church told me I was too skinny and that I should eat more “fat”. Perhaps she’s right. I tried to eat more yesterday, including a Klondike.