Another restless night. The dog started barking at 2 a.m. and she was inside! So I had to get up to let her out. The neighbor dog was out there looking around and I guess Kelly felt territorial. Then at 2:15, for some unknown reason, the television came on. So 4:00 came and went and I was still awake. Hubby reminded me that this happened last Thursday too, so maybe next Thursday she will sleep outside. Here are some more things that are sitting in my mind from having read the Oregon Trail diary: They drank a lot of coffee back then because the water was so dirty. The coffee covered the taste. It was said that those who ate the most breakfast, ate the most sand. You never took a bath or combed your hair. The blankets were wet and dirty. The people often married young, 14 was not uncommon. People often ended the trip with nothing because of having to lighten the load so much by the end of the trip; the animals were too tired to pull anything and just died. How does a 14 year old, with nothing, start a life? And this was 150 years ago! That is not long ago.