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It's a wonderful invention. I retired from working in the woods. Much of that work was in our temperate rain forest. It is a good thing to start out each day with dry feet. And ski boots will even stay warm for a while on the commute up to the hill after sitting on the dryer all night.

There isn't much of a view to the south from my house. I pulled on a windbreaker and took off with shorts and a fleecy top on. I was on a grocery mission. It was very windy, but when I turned south it was a Ruh Roh moment. The sky was dark and it showed that a lot of stuff was being spit...

From watching Seattle's struggle through the years, I have the feeling that a lot of money is made off of money that is supposed to help homeless folks. I have heard that Finland has a darn good program but it won't work here. I pointed this out on another forum and got the perfect responses...

Maybe remove the battery to take indoors and then use a cover of some sort over the bike to protect the display?

Winter commute in Sweden. They have good bike infrastructure there.

It's a Casita Spirit Deluxe. The deluxe means it has a bathroom. It's my glamper. In the summer, I keep it ready to go in case we have a big wind blowing a fire this way. It's ten years old. I bought it used and am now waiting for a replacement refrigerator. I fear I'll be buying ice and...

If you are meaning roads, bikes have a miniscule impact on roads. What damage do they cause? Meanwhile, heavy trucks and studded tires are the usual suspects, along with some poor low bid paving jobs. Bike lanes? I'd pay like a ten dollar tax if they were ever built here. A bike lane is...

I have a hard time with the homeless problem. On one hand, I feel sorry for some of them. I realize it's hard and all. But on the other hand, I despise the mess they make. There was one guy trying to survive in a van here. He started trashing his edge of the road, and then I noticed people...

That first part is my point. If all the "serfs" moved away, that would create a demand for their work, which should increase wages and decrease housing values. Who would clean the McMansions? However, in reality, workers from other countries would be imported. I actually worked at ski...

People don't seem to be willing to move to more affordable places. Yeah, I know that we get attached, family, work, scenery, etc. to places but if you can't afford to live somewhere, move elsewhere. That's the way capitalism is designed. If people move on, eventually there will be a shortage...

Finally. Today was warm and there was a music thing going on down the road about 5 miles so I hopped on my bike and rode there as there would be beer. Good beers to try! I got a beer and sat down with some strangers who offered to share their shade. There was music from local folks. One...

I'd say more motorists are jerks. Bicycles are consdered to be a vehicle in my state. If I'm in a lane and staying in the lane but happen to swerve a bit , staying in my lane, it is the car's fault. I'm legal and in a lane. I often hog the lane going up the scary road for a ways until it...

I remember going into The Church of Elvis. I might still have my plastic chalice.

No, it won't unless it is actually enforced. If people drove the speed limit on a road that I take to access a lot of other riding routes, I'd feel a lot safer. In my town, speed limits don't matter and are seldom enforced and everybody knows that. Speed limits are a joke. The town's answer...

I have been faithfully watching The Sheep Game on Youtube. I have learned that if you come across a sheep on her back, you need to go flip her over or she will die. Apparently it is one of the ways sheep try to kill themselves (humor as it is said that sheep are born trying to die).

Probably bottle blondes. I were a towhead when little.

This is a timely topic because there was a blurb from a local newspapers facebook page that our county commissioners are going to lower the speed limits on several roads "for safety" reasons. The speed will be lowered from 50mph to 35. I am skeptical, a few years ago they tried to lower the...

Fixed it. I have no idea what a passport page is, other than an effect of failing to delete a part of a sentence. I'm just seeing a lot of places to go in Beautiful British Columbia and Alberta, and then we have the Palouse to Cascades trail...

Since Covid began, drivers started going faster, because there was/is no enforcement of speed limits, at least in my area. For a while, law enforcement was not pulling drivers over because they might catch Covid. They don't seem to have improved much in that respect and people are still going...

To me it is depressing to read about alternative to car solutions being implemented in Warshington, but it is actually only to be done in the Puget Sound area. Then, (and I have to get political, sorry) the Governor and others wonder why they are disparaged so much in the outlying areas of the...