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It felt great to be out working again at Sterling! Hopefully Art and I can out after this rain and inspect and put a plan together for Ringwood. I'm sure there will be some spots that need a little maintenance. As always, input is always appreciated, especially since we are not seeing the...

Ten days later, and we are back in New York. The drive back was ok, but day 3 was really long. An Interstate closure detour in Indiana put us on secondary roads for a 100 miles or so. That part of the drive was actually pretty nice, but that and the route tacked on a few hours to the day. The...

We did a group ride Sunday and we thought we might be doing the new rerouted stuff by our house, but it turned out that one person wanted to take the group out on Monkey rocks. We had seen some riders out on some slabs across the valley but did not know how to get over there. We went along to...

Our last scheduled visitor left yesterday and we are three weeks from departure for heading back east. The heat wave has moved out and the weather is just about perfect. We could always use some rain, but things have been pretty dry. We have both been feeling pretty drained from the riding and...

I just harvested my first round of squash blossoms and made stuffed blossoms. We have had a young ( 2 rattles ) rattlesnake make a few appearances in our garden. No more walking around in the garden without checking under plants or watering first. Both times I saw it, it came out while watering...

Just spent a week riding with old friends from Team Campmor. Thankfully temps came down below 100. It was actually quite pleasant riding in the morning and we stayed in the shade or indoors in the afternoon. Everyone took naps, except me. I do take naps, but this week's riding was much less...

Hopefully this heat dome will end tomorrow. Today it hit 100 by 1pm. The humidity is only 7%, but 100 is still 100. So, another day getting on bikes by 8:00. Tomorrow we may ride longer so will try to get out earlier. Trails are actually busy early in the am. Today we saw 2 gila monsters...

Currently, the weather channel is saying it is 100 degrees outside. The weather station on the roof is calling it 99.9. I guess you get the idea that it is hot in Tucson today. We did our ride early and it felt comfortable, but we are all feeling wiped out. I may do a siesta today. We saw a...

Things have warmed back up to summer like weather. Today we were on the bike by 9:30 and it was ideal at around 70 with a light breeze. Next week it is supposed to get super hot ... like 100 downtown. Looks like we will be up early if we want to ride. Jen will be visiting so I hope it is not...

The fruit comes in fall. I have not had any as just fruit. I have had the juice and I love the color!

I think all that riding finally caught up with me as my legs have been flat all week. My Exie is in for suspension service so I have been riding my Pivot 429 this week. While the differences in the two bikes are subtle, I am reminded of how much I like the Exie. I have my eyes on the new Ripley...

I caught a glimpse of the eclipse this morning around 5:30. My pictures did not come out, so no pictures today. I was glad my bladder woke me up to see it. That's one good thing about getting older and having to pee several times a night, you get to see shit like that. To continue on the...

I just dropped Marianne off at the shuttle after having a nice few weeks of a visit. It has been a wonderful month with friends visiting and some really fun riding! We had visitors for 22 fun filled days of February. On our last 2 days of riding, Art, Marianne and I rode Wild Burro/Ridgeline and...