Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. Good trip to Wichita Falls, TX for Hotter than Hell ride. Rode 100K route in morning, ended wit 64+ miles then 27 mile gravel route in evening on Saturday ending with 32+ miles. Rides went well in morning, evening ride had riding partner hit gravel patch and went down. When almost home got dog attack bite did not break skin. Temps were cooler than last year. Return trip uneventful today.
start catch up tomorrow
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Scott(vt) /wife's back pain, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Eye recovery, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Israel, Ukraine war, Middle East War, and Country.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 48° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 69° with cloudy skies. Got garden pond maintenance done yesterday. Then spread the 10 bags of mulch around gardens as needed. Was a great day to spend time on back porch. Have a few things to cleanup in barn and shop before PT visit at noon. Then its relax in afternoon.
My Hens and Chicks in rock garden. I pulled weeds after taking photo.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Did not sleep well at all been up since 4:00 fell asleep in chair earlier. Lost reading glasses hard to see fine print. Forgot to give Holly pills paying price now.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

good Monday morning all
up early, for no reason

Ron, I have a small version near my front door but until seeing yours
never realized they look like little artichokes.

67 going up to 82 today with a brief rain shower coming through shortly radar shows.
no plans yet for today
that will take a second cup of coffee

Mostly I think the heat would be shimmering off the pavement on your long rides in the sun, you are a lot
tougher than I am, think I'd melt

Buppies, drink an extra water today, take care of yourself and feel better

It's a shower morning but a no shave morning.
nice to get out of shower and not have to shave
I try to shave every two or three days, or more often if needed.
my Braun electric shaver is ok in a pinch but always winds up irritating my skin.
I use one of those shavers with five blades and rarely use shaving cream, just soap.

being retired has its privileges
besides I grow my beard back in October anyway so I don't mind shaving.

really miss the early morning daylight
seem to wait forever for the sun to come up now, and less time after dinner to do stuff outside.
but Christmas is coming...
always look for the bright side

 

[thclimer]

The daylight hours are sure diminishing. We are loosing 2 min and 40 seconds of daylight each day now. I would have a difficult time living in a Northern latitude like Alaska.

@Looking4new you must be loosing even more daylight than us each day now.

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[riptides]

63 outside right now, lower 80's expected.

Don't know what I may get into today. Wife and MIL taking a trip to see MIL's old property that has a 1800's cabin on it that we relocated and rebuilt. The cabin is now an AirBnB. Should be interesting for them.

Need to get the weed whacker out and do the fence lines sometime soon. The grasses are thinning out and drying up. Should be a lot easier trimming.

Hope all have a great start to the work week, or another week of retirement. Be safe.

 

[daugen]

decided to treat myself with two nice to haves.
knowing I can't upgrade my Makita string trimmer to a double line, purchased the
modern equivalent of what I have now but upgraded a little. I only need to trim grass, nothing else, so
don't need the more expensive commercial unit they have. I've seen that one and it's impressive but over spec
for my use. And a little heavier which is not good for me.
that should be in tomorrow.

also in tomorrow are a new pair of speakers for my office.
only 50 bucks more a pair than what I have now, which is very modest, but
I'm hoping for an audible difference. Going from KEF's smallest speaker to a small
Elac speaker. Small is good to fit my existing wall stands, plus I have a Klipsch sub hooked up for deep bass.
definitely looking forward to cranking that up. And since I keep reverting back to listening, at times, to Fleetwood Mac,
I ordered a best of cd which should also come in tomorrow. I have a Cambridge cd transport and a PS Audio Sprout integrated
amplifier and use Pandora for background music, often the allison krauss channel.

and I have Popgadget to keep me on the straight and narrow and not drink too much audiophile koolaid.
particularly as i get older, I/we all start having limited hearing, not to mention in my case severe hearing loss
in one ear. Sure screws up the stereo effect, but I have balance cranked to one side to compensate a little.
But my one good ear sure can appreciate better sound and thankfully today it's not expensive.

 

[Thomas]

when is that? Probably Sept.

Around the first weekend of October.

 

[Thomas]

That sounds more like enduro ride when you don't know what expect next Mostly.

 

[Thomas]

64F partly cloudy day maybe couple stray showers in afternoon.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...town for BIG load critter food,check game cams,putter.

Enjoy your day all.