Three separate and very minor incidents, but worth a brief account. 1. (a) White heron, flapping up from the acequia ditch as I rode back south the other day on the ditch road on (Riv content) the '03 Curt. We've plenty of blue/gray herons, attracted over the last 5-6 years, I daresay, by the City-built wetlands reserves, but this is the very first pure white one I've seen. Majestic!
(b) Coyote -- as I turned north this morning at 11 am on my (Riv content) '03 Curt, a big western one, *right smack dab in the middle *of the busy access road that runs N/S between my little bosque infill neighborhood and the shopping center fronting Coors Blvd. They''ve been very close this year; our little neighborhood (40 houses, mostly semidetached, as the British say) backs up against the bosque, and this year you can hear them in the evening howling right up into the commons area. I am going to buy a slingshot; I walk my dogs -- craven 7 year old Chihuahua, Nico, and hyper 2 year old mutt Perry -- along that road, and where 1 coyote will appear singly just to look around, a pack may appear if there is likely prey. These are big western coyotes; the size of a malnourished German Shepherd. 2. I actually got to wear my Campmore rain cape yesterday! Hurrah! I didn't get to use the new rain hat (not Grundens; this is a much cheaper one, but a brand name and very well made; about $25 IIRC), 'cause it wasn't raining that hard, but as I took a 10 mile detour yestiddy to pick up the car from the mechanic's, it started doing more than spitting, and I was able to enjoy the cape for a good 5-6 miles. When your side of town gets an average of less than 9" a year, you take your pleasure where you can. ABQ's monsoon has shifted north from late June thru August to late July thru late September -- very long and heavy (for us) rain over the last couple of days; 7/10" last night, which is, around here, practically Noah's flood. More predicted today and tomorrow, but on today's ride, tho' I took cape and hat, it was sunny. 3. Load, again, '03 Curt. 55 lb back from the walking distance Albertson's, in front Sports Packers and rear Roller Packers; included a 12-pack of IPA , gal milk, and a $20 lb special of 8 lb of various industrially grown MEATS ($2.50/lb overall). My biggest load previously, in rears only, was 45 lb, and I grunted that up a very steep, 4/10 mile long hill in a 67" gear at 20 rpm on that Motobecane. BTW: this is a good read: https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-agrarian-standard/ And while I think of books: Not quite "Just Ride," but I checked out (Kindle) a very well written book, "Half Man, Half Bike ..." by The Guardian's cycling columnis, Will Fotheringham. *Very* well written, and a good read even if, as I, you have never raced. The Brits just write better than we Americans. (Another is "Gironimo", by another British journalist, his account of resurrecting a more or less period machine and riding, with many a travail and much retrospective humor, the extensive and often obliterated route of the 1914. Giro d'Italia. Both, and many other interesting cycling books, available for Kindle on Amazon. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, New Mexico, EUA ************************************************************************** ************** *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
