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All quiet here in Virginia…no breeze…68F…Sunday morning 16miles…but I can FEEL the storm battering England’s coast since recently re-reading Dylan Thomas’s “Quiet Early One Morning” …”Tar black howling” “It had been such a ferocious night that someone in the Smokey ship-pictured bar had said he...

Yesterday's day cool morning's ride was a shakedown cruise of my new saddle, a Brooks Cambium...I stopped three miles in on a long stretch of farm road to adjust the seat. Soon a stopped and rolling down her window asked it I needed help. "No thank you...just taking a break." And then she...

Rode...mowed...dozed yesterday. Forgot to look for the Northern Lights...oh well, there is always the comet. Today I chanced the fast route to check on Bobby's $$$"Pumpkin Patch" $$$. I didn't see him but did see two school buses and about 50 cars...noon on a Friday. There will be traffic...

I don’t push my tractor fast enough to blow off the ball cap

I have been using one of the big rim visors this year. I wish I had been using it the last ten years considering the recent knife play by dermatology. For the one I use…hard hat type…I needed a rim/visor to secure the the big rim so was forced use older helmet. For this reason I’m ordering a...

I got out briefly (6miles) taking a break from the surprisingly competent performance of the Washington ‘Commanders’ Football team.

A few photos from recent rides, Bobby Lloyd’s pumpkin’s are certainly much larger after what seemed like ten days of rain.ten days of rain. Bobby told me he’s amazed how much money the Patch, and Easter setup makes. His daughter-in-law implemented the activity. I’m unsure what the yard display...

Last week an old friend from New England visited me in Central VA. Though he hadn’t been riding he brought his venerable steel road bike. The rain changed our plans as did our other friend’s hangover so I persuaded Bill to ride my extra Trek Allant. He noted the wide tires versus his 26c. So we...

21C here in Central Virginia…but then I’m much further south than you two

My neighbors’ ostentatious display…some people. I first met them after my cows got out and I found them in what passed for their backyard. The woman helped me for an hour getting them back in. I’ve been riding more, still local, enjoying this cool September weather, unusual this time of year for...

Panda =Banded Galoway

^Looks like Leon Russell. Irish-English was on glorious display in Kevin Barry‘s ‘Night Boat to Tangiers’ which I recently read. On the Penguin/Randomhouse site is this clip of Barry reading the opening few pages. After some pages the talk of this strange novel become a kind of music...

I've been riding little this year due to various medical issues such as my watch buzzing at me last month as I walked dressed to ride to the barn...Afib alert...first I heard...but Cardio at VA said the Apple watch tracings were definitive...so I'm dealing with the tests, monitor etc....but I've...

@Chargeride It seems as if the real Basil was on the BMX.

I believe James Joyce opens “Ulysses” in one of these towers (Martel?)

My Wales is built entirely of Dylan Thomas’ reading ‘Quite Early One Morning’ over 50 years ago. “quite early one morning in the winter in Wales, by the sea that was lying down still as glass after a night of tar black howling…It had been such a ferocious night that someone in a Smokey...

I use RX from the VA and order from Zenni…but the GF is resisting Zenni…and raves about Costco…so I have another way to push into new glasses

My sister as a passenger died in such a situation

ROME was more ‘off’ than troll. His nonsense though, as pointed out, could be bad news to someone seeking information. I blocked him reluctantly…

And my donkey loves me. Transportation infrastructure is clearly lacking in the US though the vast distances here compared to Europe is one of the reasons. I drove to town yesterday (Richmond, VA) to referee an athletic contest. As I walked inside I spotted a young man mounting his bike...a...