Long Excellent Day

Full day at work. 50 miles of bike riding and even though it’s way late being too early tomorrow, I still manage the energy to upload pix of: Some flowers and stuff at the Exposition Park Rose Garden where I stopped on my wat from work to the Arts District Tonight’s IAAL•MAF Invitational Ride  I …

Bike-A-Palooza

Thankfully yesterday’s and night’s winds have seemed to dissipate, the better to enable today’s endurathon in which I will rack upwards of 50 miles before the day is done thanks to tonight’s IAAL•MAF Invitational No. 4.0 that will be embarking from the Arts District for East L.A. and points south. First I’ll be two-wheeling to …

The Linen Suit

In a phone conversation last week my mom told me she’d been out shopping and had come across a men’s white linen suit for an unbelievable price and wanted to know what my size was. I told her I wasn’t sure. The heftier last year’s me was threatening to push into the realm of a …

Where There’s A Hill There’s A Way

Near the end of my bike commutes home I’m always faced with one final obstacle. It’s nothing monumental, about 580 feet of Occidental Boulevard that rises some 60 feet over that length (roughly a 10% grade), but after 15 miles across town through traffic it’s a chore to get up on top of it (even moreso after the 22 miles rolled …

Part Of The Scenery

When you look through the years And see what you could have been Ooooh, what you might have been If you’d had more time In light of today’s unfathomable and horrific violence that occured this morning on the other side of the country, I need to go to the edge of this side and get …

Animal Update

Having just watched the live-action version of Charlotte’s Web tonight (by choice; you gotta problem with that?) I wanted to chime in with a brief base touch regarding the present status on some of the animals inside our barn and out: 1) While Susan saw a pair of sparrows sitting in the bougainvillea yesterday in …