First ride of 2005

I finally got out for my first ride this year. I have been doubling up the efforts. This week while I am off, I will hike and ride each day. I found myself to be quite tired after the short ride. There are no easy rides around home. Lots of rolling hills which means I am either coasting or creeping up the side with my heart thumping. I got in a 2 hour ride yesterday with a 4 mile up the mountain hike. I am supposed to get a call to go on a hike today. No candy or peanut butter the past few days but I have eaten bread. I have to cut that part out also. The next two or three days have rain forecasted. I hope they are wrong. I need to get a goal for the trip if I am to know if I am making progress. I had thought that I might get to where I can ride the Wiregrass road out to the mountain and up on top and back. That would be about 16 miles on a mountain bike. Hopefully that would be a good level to go road biking. But the constant pedaling of a road bike is a different thing. I need to get time in the gym on the Airdyne. Now the trick is, I won't be in a race with anyone. I will have all day to ride the 40 or so mile loop back to camp. One day is a 60 miler. Now with Florida, daylight begins early and lasts later than here. So I'd have 12 hours to do 60 miles. Average 5 miles an hour and you are there. Do 10 miles and hour and you can make it in 6 hours with several rest stops. Other than the pressure on the backside, it won't be that bad.

Catching up

After my recovery period for Covid, I went to Cullman on Monday the 8th and started catching up on the mowing and farm stuff. Pretty much everything needed mowing. The big tractor made short work on the main north fields and David helped me with the field across from the pond. The grass had grown quite long and with the two week absence, I simply started and mowed all of them. There is always some mowing to do. At least no trees had fallen. There were some indoor projects pending. A couple of shower fixtures had to be replaced. The screen door latch didn't hold and had to be improved. The old JD mower needed a bit of tuning so it would climb better and the mowing deck replaced. And the garden needed to be disked and more corn and okra planted. David should have had a shot on the groundhog at the old house but forgot to check his ammo. The hammer fell on an empty chamber. I got the conibear traps out and caught one of the groundhogs that lived by the spring. David had ...

Spock

Spock is my favorite character in all fiction. A character who bridged the gap between two worlds and faced disdain from each. Who strove for excellence and exemplified strength, character, intelligence, and control. His nearly emotionless demeanor was a perfect foil for those who would attempt to intimidate or insult him. It was a style I would endeavor to imitate to thwart those attempting to insult, demean, or scare me in my own young life. I bought this little figure to remind me to guard against letting my defenses down and allowing emotional hurt to strike me.

Island Walk

I always try to help Rachael with Hubbard/Rockford if asked. They had me down for 3 days but at last minute asked for the other day. Work at Rockford is slow so working isn't hard, but not following my usual routine tired me out a bit. I still had some work I could take care of up in Cullman. Some bushhog work and other little items but the high temps held me back a bit. I did ride my bike a little and got in some of my walking in addition to some chores. Max needed to be delivered to Charlotte, SC for his drum major camp. I volunteered to take him. I was glad to be able to perform this chore for him but the long trip up and back combined with extra heavy traffic in the Atlanta are, which extended to within 30 miles of Alabama, combined to really tire me out. There had been a problem with my left rear wisdom tooth for over a year, so I decided I should get it taken care of before I wound up isolated somewhere in PEI. The extraction didn't appear to be problematic until just be...

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