seedsbelize2

Have you figured out what pollinates it? Either a moth or a bat.

seedsbelize2

Another good reason to live in public transport land. Merida traffic is bad, but in a different way. The city is compact, with tiny streets, so it jambs up quickly into gridlock. Being that it's so compact, it's easy to get around on foot. If one must drive, public parking lots abound.

datlas 

Google says moths.

datlas 

My wife and I had always planned to move from our suburban 1 acre 4BR3BA 2500SF home to an in-town 3BR1.5BA 1500SF home close to work so we could downsize to 1 car and I could walk/bike to work.

But real estate in West Chester, PA (where I work and the county seat of Chester county) is crazy so that downsize-move is postponed indefinitely.

Mojo31

Lol, I keep telling my wife that when I stop working I want to downsize to a 2,000' house with a detached 6-car garage with a separate workout room. She looks at me like I have dementia or something.

Mojo31

He's referring to a sailing site. I don't think Froome was ever featured there.

Mojo31

I have not logged into that site in well over 10 years, but am now getting weekly or more frequent emails driving to drive me to the site. Scooter must be hurting.

MoAlpha

There is some cycling content and even some WT commentary from time to time, but I don't remember any Froomage.

I posted a few messages last year when my friend Larry Howard died and there was a thread on him. I'm getting those emails too.

WhyFi

After a day of walking around the fair, I've accepted that I like the idea of fair food more than the reality of fair food. First, the value sucks all the way around - I've always known that, but it's worse than ever, now. Then there's the question of whether or not the stuff is worth the calories, which is almost always a hard "no" for me, these days, too. And let's not forget the indigestion cost - oof. It's often high (I overheard some college age kid, in an "extreme" voiceover voice say "The MN State Fair - punish your toilet!!!" He's got a point, there ).

In the end, I got back home hungry for something substantial, because I didn't have much and a lot of the stuff that I did have was sugar/fat/carbs with some nostalgia value (helllllo, mini donuts).

Also, fair goers are fat. Shocking.

datlas 

It's so noisy at the fair, but all your friends are there...

seedsbelize2

I tried hard to delete that post, once I realized that. At least on the laptop, that is a near impossible task. Better to just edit it somehow. But onnce the delete button has been pressed, and the site locks up, there is nothing to be done. And this reminds me of this, though in an indirect fashion.
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phrantic09

Super surprising there. I always though fair goers were fit and trim

genejockey 

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Mojo31

No, but water park people are.

phrantic09

I’ve been having a hard time putting out anywhere close to my normal power numbers the past few days - wondering if I have asymptomatic rona that’s slowing me down.

WhyFi

Dunno about you, but I'm def feeling some fall allergies. Not super overt, most of the time, but it's there, particularly in terms of mildly restricted airways; the kind where you can still breathe, just not as well, so that the need to launch a snot rocket isn't necessarily obvious.

t2p

you almost described my neighbor's house - but his house is smaller - and the garage larger

he actually has a smaller garage within the garage ; the smaller portion is insulated and heated

his house / garage are at the top of the picture

Mojo31

I kind of went through that recently. Sunday finally felt like the good old days.

I didn't test though.

#antitester

Eric F 

Serrano has been a consistent top performer on the World Cup circuit this year, and has shown some serious power in the final few K on a regular basis. However, Nino's downhill tech skills are hard to match, and it's not uncommon for that to be the deciding factor in his wins. Nino is currently tied for the all time record of World Cup race wins (33, Julian Absalon). He's been very close to breaking that record a couple of times this year. If he can maintain his current form, he has a good chance this weekend (free live coverage on redbull.tv).

phrantic09

I always have exertion based rhinitis, so hard to say

Don’t want to kill Schroedinger’s cat

Eric F 

In my limited observations, this seems like a pretty universal experience at State and County fairs across the nation.

Mojo31

My wife would not go for anything so rural. She likes having neighbors.

The garage I mentioned would have to have an air conditioned workout room. It would be useless from April to November otherwise. The floor space for cars, bikes, water toys, etc. would not require air or heat, but would have to have a nice finish. All of that would be required because I would likely be sleeping out there if I ever required her to make such a move.

Mojo31

Looks like he's sporting some fancy new RD: New SRAM derailleur spotted at MTB World Championships - BikeRadar

seedsbelize2

One of my last waterpark experiences, probably 35 years ago, we were there for the full day. Right around noon there was a thunderstorm. We had the place practically to ourselves the rest of the day. Those tall(antique I'm sure) waterslides were my fave. The limit to how many times I could go down was how fast I could get back up the ladder. And now that I think of it, the same thing happened on a canoe trip. We could never figure out where everybody went, but they were gone.

Eric F 

Yep. There has been some buzz about the new SRAM drivetrain on a MTB forum I frequent, starting last week when the top riders' bikes started showing up in the pits in Les Gets. My concern is the potential for frame damage if the derailleur gets torn off. The reason that the bike industry went to replaceable hangers was that they are sacrificial.