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walkitoutIt was a beautiful day in Grand Tetons National Park. Cell phone coverage and internet is pretty poor here at Signal Mountain Lodge, which I would personally view as a feature, but it hasn’t adequately discouraged other people from tapering off their internet dependency. I tend to assume that because I don’t have much trouble quitting things, other people have similar capacity; moments like this remind me just how false that assumption is.
Today, I received text messages from my friend M. She told me that there were police and fire at my house. I used an earlier FB Messenger group message to contact several other neighbors simultaneously to find out who had called them and what the status was. I also called Acton Fire Department’s non-emergency line, however, I had trouble with cell coverage there and while I could hear them, they could not consistently hear me. I gave them the garage access code, and eventually was able to reach them again to find out that they had determined a faulty alarm had occurred in the basement. This wasn’t one of those short false alarms — it went on and on and on, and so a neighbor out on a walk had called it in. Conveniently, the group message chain gave us an opportunity to negotiate watering of our deck plants including a really massive cabbage plant A. is growing for me. She got the seed started at school, and then R. replanted it here at home.
Anyway. Lots of excitement — really a lot more than I wanted on the first day of vacation.
The only scheduled activity at Grand Tetons for us is tomorrow, when we will go on a float trip on the snake. However, because people are antsy, we drove out to Jackson Lake Lodge and walked up to Lunch Tree Hill. It was very pretty. But honestly, just staying lakeside at Signal Mountain Lodge is very pretty. The view doesn’t improve significantly from sitting indoors and staring at the lake and mountains. Also, there are a lot fewer mosquitoes indoors. In good news, the wind on Lunch Tree Hill was sufficiently brisk that there weren’t any mosquitoes there.
We also did a scenic drive. Signal Mountain itself is having some fuel reduction (where they collect brush into teepees which will later be, presumably, burned — we saw the teepees all over the place at Grand Canyon earlier in the year) during the day, so you have to either drive up early or late.
Today, I received text messages from my friend M. She told me that there were police and fire at my house. I used an earlier FB Messenger group message to contact several other neighbors simultaneously to find out who had called them and what the status was. I also called Acton Fire Department’s non-emergency line, however, I had trouble with cell coverage there and while I could hear them, they could not consistently hear me. I gave them the garage access code, and eventually was able to reach them again to find out that they had determined a faulty alarm had occurred in the basement. This wasn’t one of those short false alarms — it went on and on and on, and so a neighbor out on a walk had called it in. Conveniently, the group message chain gave us an opportunity to negotiate watering of our deck plants including a really massive cabbage plant A. is growing for me. She got the seed started at school, and then R. replanted it here at home.
Anyway. Lots of excitement — really a lot more than I wanted on the first day of vacation.
The only scheduled activity at Grand Tetons for us is tomorrow, when we will go on a float trip on the snake. However, because people are antsy, we drove out to Jackson Lake Lodge and walked up to Lunch Tree Hill. It was very pretty. But honestly, just staying lakeside at Signal Mountain Lodge is very pretty. The view doesn’t improve significantly from sitting indoors and staring at the lake and mountains. Also, there are a lot fewer mosquitoes indoors. In good news, the wind on Lunch Tree Hill was sufficiently brisk that there weren’t any mosquitoes there.
We also did a scenic drive. Signal Mountain itself is having some fuel reduction (where they collect brush into teepees which will later be, presumably, burned — we saw the teepees all over the place at Grand Canyon earlier in the year) during the day, so you have to either drive up early or late.