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rain also here. the heat is gone. finally. once the rain clears out looks to be a stellar weekend. office is quiet today, thankfully.
Driving 5.5 hour north in Sweden to meet a small group of riders for an invitational gravel ride tomorrow. 185km and 2500m of climbing so a long day on the bike. We will start on a small island and head inland and the host is making breakfast and dinner with local produce. Weather looks good.
Thought my cold was clearing up, probably should've given it another day before having beers last night.
Slept in, brain fuzz is strong, must make strong coffee to win the war. Busy day followed by driving the camper to San Juan Bautista for a two day horse show. Going to take Watson with me. He loves road trips
do you guys not have diners?
Super suburb lands. We got nothing. Plan was CKB, but I can't find one.do you guys not have diners?
was going to WFH today, but too many thing to do 
Mornin!
Was up til 2 am drywalling, which capped off a 12 hour day. Still have to sand, do another round of mudding, then sand again before I can prime. Woof.
Was up til 2 am drywalling, which capped off a 12 hour day. Still have to sand, do another round of mudding, then sand again before I can prime. Woof.
So far I managed to avoid instantly gaining 10 food gorging pounds which usually happens after a marathon or Ironman (I'm actually down two pounds), but looks like that may change this weekend. I've got three meals out planned with friends and family. I will say I've slept more in the past four days than the average person sleeps in a week, and that is not an exaggeration.
finally getting around to coffee #2.
No. Just dumb. All my clothes are old bike and car stuff and jeans that should probably be retired but I keep patching them. Anyways, Gap makes things for short, fat people, not wookies.oooooooohhhhhhhh @stoney is t-t-t-t-t-t-triggered!
you know i'm just busting your chops right?
Happy Friday! Yesterday we rode Reno/Flag/Bear/Deadman and damnit, those 30 switchbacks on the last DH are sweet. I forgot how much I liked that trail. Woot woot, carry-on.
Slept like shit last night. Went to school with the girls for some assembly that I still don't understand why my presence was required. I sense a nap in the very near future.
Isn't that what the interwebs is four?
And six.
speaking of pancakes, now that @Adventurous is a new englander he's gotta learn to make maple syrup. my cousin in maine still makes it, i have a small stash after my latest trip.
A few of the properties we've lookes at come with tapped trees and lines. I wouldn't complain about some fresh maple syrup.
i've got a few maples (not sugar maples) on my property that are large enough to tap. since i made that post i looked into what it would take to try my hand at it......
i also learned that Pennsylvania is the #5 maple syrup producing state (about 5%). Vermont is #1 (nearly half the total US product, 42%) followed by Maine and NY (roughly 17% each), and then Wisconsin is just ahead of PA with 6%.
Better than eating drywall, I’d say.
Ever tried birch syrup? We first saw it in Alaska this fall. Supposedly the yield is 1/40 of an equivalent amount of maple syrup. I liked it more than maple, it's a bit more caramel like.
If you don't ride Doctor Park I don't know that we can be friends. I usually do that one as a big-ass shuttle from Reno Ridge that looks like Reno > Flag > Bear > Doctor, but that's probably difficult for ya'll to set up. And riding Doctor Park as a loop by pedaling up Spring Creek is a grunt.
Not that you need any advice as it A.) sounds like you've been before and B.) you can't swing a dead cat without hitting 3 great rides in that place... seriously CB is super amazing, and there are so many good rides there, and since you can start linking things together to make some really big days? Fuggetaboutit. One of my favorite combos is 409 > Point Lookout > 409.5 > Strand > Canal... which is apparently now mapped out on MTB Project as the 409s and Point Lookout Loop.
The best resource I can offer for riding in CB is Frank and Brittany's blog... it's got all the goods. My friends and I often troll that thing for ride ideas, not just in CB but all over that part of the state. For example, this ride we did was partially if not entirely inspired by this trip report from Frank and Brittany.
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i have heard of it, but haven't tried it. for maple it depends on the type of tree and how concentrated you boil it down.
Nothing to twix and chik dic pics won't fix.
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@Adventurous now i'm looking at this. Would just need some food grade buckets for storage until boil, and i already have a big propane burner and 10 gal kettle from homebrewing.