LV Ju MMXXI
The 55th day of June, in six (6) months it will be Christmas day and cold. This is a brief, unscheduled report as some ‘free time’ developed in the day plan so YOU win.
After getting you up-to-the-minute and posting up I will be in the cement pond sipping a grande cup of hot black coffee watching the sun warm things up behind a cool pair of house shades aka sunglasses.
I pulled in Monday’s Easy40K ride to today as Silver & I have an appointment at the car vets in Sherman. Hopefully this latest repair will stop the financial bleeding for a spell. At LEAST dim the idiot light.
I had low expectations after Saturdays long 105K GDR. I have decided Saturdays are no longer optimum for such long rides and going forward now Sunday will be preferred. As mentioned low expectations for today as the GDR was brutal. Heat, humidity and traffic were all contributors and my feet started to give me some pain for a ‘first’.
Starting out this morning I could feel the tender man-machine interface specifically that bone in the 'down unda' pelvic region. However as is often the case once I got mounted and going, building momentum, towards the end made the move to empty the tank and was able to post another good time for 40K.
TRAINING UPDATES ARE SO BORING. WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Very well. I get the hint.
Currently I have four (4) books piled up. The one I am reaching for most often and actually reading (none have an abundance of pictures) is the history of Galveston. This is the book I was looking for and found it on the last trip.
It started as ‘Galvez Town’ and the inhabitants before that were a tribe called the Karankawas. A mean and nasty bunch because the early Spanish explorers REALLY pissed them off and talk about atrocities. Back & forth brutality and gruesome raids on the other where no one was spared as in women and children.
Galveston Ghost Stories was a quick glance thus far. Not what I would label exceptionally well written, I am thinking it is better left for Halloween, when the Grandees visit or a cold winter night.
An Ambrose Bierce collection is lingering. Odd that his name came up on an old time radio quiz program last week. I find him a little difficult to read sometimes but good none the less and certainly far ahead of his time.
Fourth & final is Millkans Bend. An account of a small obscure Civil war battle in Louisiana that failed to hold initial interest.
OK. That’s it.
Water plants. Laundry shuffle before the dip. Continue painting tropical fish and projets artistiques. I borrowed Poor Richard’s reciprocating saw and some damaged backyard shrubs are coming down and today out before it gets warm.
At 1:10 the Red Sox v yankees go at it again. Sad ending yesterday as Sox starter Nate Eovaldi was brilliant for seven (7) strong innings and left with a 3-0 lead. His ‘relief’ totally let him down and wasted his effort and blew a stunning performance which doesn’t seem fair by any means but that’s how it bees sometimes.
Enjoy the day Fans.
Life is short and you get no ’do overs’.
