M.I.A. Missing in action.

Yep, that be me for sure. As at least when it comes to the blogosphere and my Trail Head friends.

Sorry folks!

Let's see... where do I start on my list of excuses?!

A fried laptop. That's been a biggie. Hard to do much online anything when your regular computer, chock full of all your files, favorites, photos and whatnot has crapped out on you. And you have to beg, borrow and steal time on other people's laptops. Productivity all around suffers.

Never mind my day job which, with gas prices surging over $4.00 a gallon and no relief in sight, has kept me busier than ever. Too much to do, not enough of me. By a good margin. And that cloning experiment I devised to help remedy just such a situation, well, those skin samples in the Petri dishes just don't seem to be producing much.

I think I'm stuck with just me. And a to-do list that only seems to grow longer.

Oh well Wally.

Alas, a fancy new laptop is set to arrive any time now. So I'll be up and running and back to me ole self soon me hopes. Blogging, ranting, blathering, all that good stuff.

And I'm backed up, too, on stuff. No, not that kind of backed up. Coffee and beer keeps the pipes in good running order.

I mean that, although I've away from the blog, I haven't been away from the outdoors.

Nope. Just the opposite.

There's been hiking and bird watching at Libby Hill in Gray. Paddling Fort to Fort on the Kennebec River. A big 10th anniversary celebration for the Cohos Trail. A marvelous day of sea kayaking off of Stonington and Deer Isle. Time at camp up north in Elliotsville Plantation. Trail maintenance on my newly adopted section of the AT nearby. A bit o' hiking and camping in The County. The Maine Bike Rally in Fryeburg.

So, where is it dammit, you asks? The stories, the photos?

Like I tells you, been busy, been laptop-less, been beered-over, been, well, you get the pitcher, er, I mean picture.

Anyhoos, I'm back. You'll see. And read. Right after I get outs for the weekend on the western half of the Grafton Loop Trail.

Next week. You and me. Here. Trail Head.

K?