That rain I avoided? Ingrid, poor girl, had a scout hike this weekend and got all of it dumped on her. She said it had rained non-stop from eight o’clock on Friday night, to twelve noon on Saturday. Ingrid is a third-year “adventurer” (as her age group is called) and she and her friends had managed it reasonably well, but the first-yearers had been quite dejected. Fortunately they got sunshine on Sunday, so the hike ended on a better note.

Now our deck is full of drying camping gear, because just about everything she used was soaked.

Ingrid says she herself was dry and warm and got a reasonable amount of sleep. But she was completely exhausted after the hike, to the point of sickness. Her head aches. Her entire body aches. She’s flushed and hot and cold at the same time. I can see from just looking at her that she is not well. Had I not known about the hike, I would have been certain that she’s coming down with something.