genejockey 

I mean, there's almost half a year between the earliest and latest ripening apples.

LesterOfPuppets

Apple dates here are all August and September. Gotta head north to really see any apples, and even then there's not much compared to OR/WA

Ripening dates for specific varieties of pears and apples in AZ

Pears

Type Season Best For
Bartlett Mid August Eating
Starking Delicious Mid August Eating/Canning
D'Anjou September Eating
Bosc September Eating/Canning

Apples

Type Season Best For
Gala Early August Eating and applesauce
Early Blaze August Cooking
Yellow Transparent August Cooking
Gravenstein August Cooking
Red/Golden Delicious September Eating and applesauce
Red Rome September Eating
Top Red Delicious Mid September Eating
Royal Red Delicious Mid September Eating
Stayman Winesap Late September Cooking and applesauce
Winesap Commercial Late September Cooking
Old Fashion Winesap Late September Cooking and applesauce
Rome Beauty Late September Cooking
Jonathan September Eating/Cooking and applesauce

seedsbelize 

First weed eating session of the season. Same as it ever was. And local plums are on. Another tree fruit.

And mangoes. I don't have a pic of them. They get esten too quickly.

LesterOfPuppets

We have a date palm out front but I've never tried eating them. I always figure they're probably the wrong kind or will taste terrible for some other reason.

seedsbelize 

No. Neither do fresh figs, nor fresh mangoes. It's a shame.

seedsbelize 

I like GU and Hammer. But I have never had negative issues with gels

genejockey 

I grew up in orchard country. At the time, it was cherries, peaches, and apples, but as I understand it a lot of the farmers pulled up their cherry and peach trees and replaced them with apples. Mostly the pickers were migrant workers, who'd come North in June, and their first work was thinning peaches, presumably because more fruit set than the trees could handle.

Next was picking cherries, which IIRC was the first 2-3 weeks of July. For the processors, that meant 2 shifts every day, because everyone's cherries were ripe at the same time. Back in 1973, pickers got $0.35/bucket, and the good ones could pick 4-5 buckets an hour.

Peaches would be two weeks in August, usually the hottest part of August. They're even more tender than cherries, so the plant ran 2 10-hour shifts/day, because like the cherries they had to be processed immediately.

Then apples, which would just about last till late November. Most apples take well to cold storage, so that's where most of them went, and then they'd be brought out and processed through the winter and spring.

genejockey 

I can't bring myself to do gels on the bike, because I don't like having sticky hands and I've seen too many empty gel packets on the roadside. So I eat Clif bars, which create their own issues, but not till hours later.

Velo Vol 

We've been weed eating for two months in the quasi-actual north.

Velo Vol 

At the risk of posting the obvious, mangoes are disgusting.

LowCel 

Try something like Clif Bloks. I really like them, especially for longer rides. They are almost like a treat. I'll usually go through three of them on a century and I'll also eat a couple of Honey Stinger Waffles and / or Clif bars.

genejockey 

Bad mangoes may be disgusting, but good mangoes are fantastic. Like peaches with attitude.

abshipp 

I asked to start doing some service work at the shop.

My first job:

LesterOfPuppets

datlas rode down there today? I hope you told him to change cables in Virginia next time.

Mojo31

Edibles are all the fashion these days.

LesterOfPuppets

Put enough chamoy on it, a little shaved ice and a tamarindo straw and they're delicious!

seedsbelize 

I only do it when there is rain. Rainy season just began about a week ago.

seedsbelize 

There was a mango variety in southern Belize, aptly called 'peach mango'. Mmmm.

seedsbelize 

you're work? Or something you're repairing?

ls01

Yeah I see on Strava. Big miles man . Keep at it! Good to see ya round here.

ls01

Yes and yes. I've done it 3 times. Once in the rain for the beginning. It's a *****, but an accomplishment. It was called off last year for the covid. Should be a good time.
Friday. Drive up. Do ride around Tourch Lake. 50 miles ish. Dinner camp out.
Saturday. ride 200 K . Eat a big dinner. Then either camp again or drive home. Sunday is Father's day.

Dad's done himself a bit of a mischief. He was putting up some shelves in the basement. He just won't stop... anyway the next morning his right "knee" was hurting. From hip to ankle.... his description. So he took it easy all day rubbed some linament ointment on it. Next morning the pain migrated to the left "knee" and worse pain and no strength.
a couple M.r.i's later. Complete collapse of a disk in his spine resulting in pinched nerves. Looks like he's going to get stabilization surgery, couple rods and a few screws..

ls01

Thank you for your contribution, what would we do without you?

ls01

So , Monday is lawn day. I cut front and back. The mower hast been right. Runs slow, doesn't cut well, pops and coughs. Cleaned and regapped the plug. Dropped the float bowel. cleaned out the cruds. Tweeked the carb and unstuck the linkage. Now it has high and low speed. Sharpened and balanced the blade. Then recut the front yard.
Nice.. I need to get my weed whip out of the storage facility. Soon.

DougRNS

That's the 64 million dollar question.

DougRNS

I cut one of my lawns today. Pressed a button and off I went. It was 87F with 45% humidity. No jacket required.