A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That--August '07 edition

Did you hear that, Sunday morning, a bike race up Mt. Washington was canceled due to extreme weather? It's only mid-August! It doesn't bode well for a mild winter, does it? If you are a mountain bike enthusiast, try some of the other locations found in Mountain Biking New Hampshire's State Parks and Forests by Linda Chestney [917.42 CHE].

There's an amazing corn maze that you can visit right here in NH. (Thanks to Terrie for directing me to the site.) I'm horribly directionally challenged, so I might skip it, but it is fun to see an aerial view of the complex design.


Are you one of those people who cringe when a little girl will only wear pink, only carry a pink bag, only read pink books, etc.? A touch of pink is fine, but pink overload can be a bit cloying. Well, a recent study found that a fondness for pink may be in our genes! It helped women gatherers to find ripe fruits and berries, and, insured their and their family's survival. So, I guess I should embrace those books like Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann [JP KAN] and Double Pink by Kate Feiffer [JP FEI] that are so popular with little girls.