Got a wonderfully comforting and encouraging Comment from a terrific sounding woman who has gone to rowing camp at Craftsbuy and who assures me that it is major fun. Super hard work (large quantities of blueberry pancakes and still you lose weight) but super fun . There was one troubling reference to "muscles you didn’t know you had". I’ll report later.

It is balmy and warm in New York today; wonder how balmy it is in deepest Vermont? Hope the water does not get too soupy for my dunking….like, you know, 62 degrees. I am still frightened.