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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 05-09-20, 05:02 AM
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36 F right now, and there’s a chance of “flurries” up here
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Here in the big city we have one that's news & talk by day, jazz & blues by night (KJZZ) AND one that's Classical music all the time (KBAQ: K-Bach)
Can't listen to any of the above all the time.

Diversify.
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Old 05-09-20, 06:08 AM
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The temperature is 36° 'merican and there is currently some kind of frickity frack falling from the sky
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Old 05-09-20, 06:20 AM
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Woke up to 32F and 20MPH winds. Gonna ride fake miles in the basement.
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Woke up to 32F and 20MPH winds. Gonna ride fake miles in the basement.
It's much harder to HTFU in May, innit?
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Old 05-09-20, 06:45 AM
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I'm talking about when I'm at the optometrist. I always blink.
They used one of those doohickeys to hold my eyelids open so I couldn’t blink. They used numbing eye drops before that and I couldn’t feel the doohickey. I did notice that the doc took care that I never saw the syringe, very considerate of him.
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Originally Posted by Pirkaus
The temperature is 36° 'merican and there is currently some kind of frickity frack falling from the sky
30F for Benson's morning stroll, with frickity frack.
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I installed rain gutters on the garage yesterday. It went pretty smoothly, although I did have to knock some dust off of the pieces.

Unfortunately, hindsight has me thinking that that dust was from insulation, which was in the next row over at the home center.
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But the magnolia tree is blooming.
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But the magnolia tree is blooming.
Our magnolia is already done, but the crabapples and lilacs should be poppin' in the next week or two.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
30F for Benson's morning stroll, with frickity frack.
Our coldest was 30ş also but it's warming fast. Light winds today so that's a bonus.

Tomorrow is our day from Hell. High of 50 with gale force winds and occasional showers.
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Our magnolia is already done, but the crabapples and lilacs should be poppin' in the next week or two.
The wisteria is a slacker - it's just starting to throw out some creepers.
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Old 05-09-20, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Really, any eyeball injections is a lot. I'd like to get through life with a solid zero.
I bet you feel the same way about finger amputations.
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Originally Posted by whyfi
it's much harder to htfu in may, innit?
qft
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Our magnolia is already done, but the crabapples and lilacs should be poppin' in the next week or two.
Lilacs would almost be worth a trip north.
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85°A. The fans now run 24/7. Only the one ac in the house, in the woman cave. Rarely herd.. And seldom seen.


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Slow morning. Must be Saturday
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The most disgusting thing you will see today.

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I am fed up with Zwift. Considering the price there are so many bugs that ruin the group ride experience. If it worked I would stay but plan to cancel. Sad.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
The most disgusting thing you will see today.

https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/statu...75888324153344
I didn't see any raspberries.
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raspberries > mangoes
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Hoo boy.

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A little cheer for a slow day.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Memories from a happier time?
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