Running With the Foghorn Leghorn

they get eaten by the fox/racoons/etc....start again with new ones in the spring.

seriously, my brother's that didn't get eaten were fine in a closed in area out of the wind.
he may have put a heating pad in on the coldest nights, and has a water bowl that doesn't freeze too.

fox proofing will be a key design requirement, afterall, I live in a section of town called Foxhill where bunnies fear to tread. I haven't fully considered for electricity yet, but likely pull in a low voltage system for the water
 
they are the best egg layers. they are not hardy.
rhode island red are very hardy, good egg layers.
get some golden comets or red sex links. they are hybrids that do very well. half rhode island red/white and half something else.
the sex linking is key so you don't wind up with roosters.

I'll PM you for more Qs on chickens, interesting that googling "red sex links" at work doesn't get filtered
 
Fine with Red, blue and white as the trails are well ridden, but can't seem to avoid getting lost on yellow and orange every time I get out. I'll figure it out, not sure GPS will help much


I've been riding CR and 6MR for over 10 years and have no clue what trail is what color. This frustrates me so much as I never have a clue what anyone else is talking about, yet I don't do anything about it. I'm not color blind and I'm sure I could figure this out with just one ride. No real question here...just thinking out loud.
 
It was a cool ass road that time has kinda forgotten in a way. I don't know why but the road was really neat in an exploratory way.

thanks for checking that out. its not an easy thing to find spots like that. its like riding an old trail that you haven't been on in ages. good stuff for the soul.

as far as drama goes i don't know if i would call it a virus. more of a bacterial infection. viruses you really cant do anything about. just gotta let it runs its course and hope it doesn't turn bad and kill you. bacteria you have the option to apply antibiotics and fight it off, or, not do anything and just let it run its course and let your body fight it off and hope it doesn't kill you. with bacteria you have options.

after the week i have had, i can really see that even when we are cornered and there appears to be no way out, we have options.
 
they are the best egg layers. they are not hardy.
rhode island red are very hardy, good egg layers.
get some golden comets or red sex links. they are hybrids that do very well. half rhode island red/white and half something else.
the sex linking is key so you don't wind up with roosters.

Half RI red
Half RI white
Half something else

That's three halves, Darwin. It's like a remake of "The Fly" at Luke's house.
 
Kevin reminds me of Toby.

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@Norm why @stb222 and I are always swatting that ball of yarn. Well, I can't speak for him....but I know there are similarities.

Had to clip a section out, quality sucks from video editor
 
Friday, May 8, 2015

Drama does sort of work in a sense. Consider you go out to eat, If it was really good you said, "Oh man it was really good, you should try it." If it was bad you write a 2000 word review on Yelp. It's a lot easier & fun to slag something. I guess in a sense this is a form of drama. Unfortunately the reality is that the negative Yelp review is 100x as entertaining as hearing, "It was good."

@clarkenstein has a good point, maybe more of a bacteria than a virus. You can choose to ignore it, which is what I'm doing this week. I have said this a few times recently, but my pile of GAF cards is empty.

Today was an actual easy ride. Just tooling around on the bike for an hour while enjoying the day and filtering the pollen of the world out through my lungs. Home & immediately showered and dunked my head in salt water for 45 minutes.

I have a call today at 5:00. Who schedules a conference call at 5:00 on a Friday?

This entry sucked. I guess it reflects the fact I am tired. Big calorie deficit this week coupled with almost 9 hours of riding leaves me a little flat today. Flat Stanley.
 
as much as kevin hates on strava, he lives for it. i mean who else chases so many segments? its his whole life. i just figured it out; kevin should work for strava and make it even betterer.
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about the drama thing, imagine if you had the chance to stop the drama before it ever started? or even repair it? sometimes i think, imagine if HIV or something terrible was created by someone, and then let it spread and just sat on the vaccine. now that its spread, its so damaged to all the other recipients its too late to keep them alive? that must be a crappy feeling. i mean you can try and do all the treatments and stuff and feel good that you tried, the media feels that you did everything you could to save the patients and stop the outbreak of this deadly disease, but in the end, you know that you had the vile of antidote that could stop everything? you see the havoc it creates on families, friends, everyone around them, it's pure hell for them. draining, dragging them down, because they can't do anything. they are just along for the ride of this deadly disease that isn't curable. oh man, thats heavy stuff right there.

sometimes i feel like its unavoidable, like allergies. you cannot avoid them, unless you move to alaska or something where you dont have any plants. at some point the trees bloom and the allergies go away, and it really is beautiful. dat lush green forrest life.

you live with the trees and flowers after they bloom, they are beautiful. the things that caused you so much pain for a month or so, actually aren't too bad in the end. granted its a vicious cycle of taking zyrtec, spraying chemicals up your nose or hiding inside. i myself get tired of blowing my nose with toilet paper at work (i'm on my second roll by the way) but i've found a decent way to suppress the allergies. wasn't it the dear poet, 50 cent, who said "sunny days wouldn't be special if it wasn't for rain"? the rain helps my allergies, actually.

i guess at some point the pollen will go away and stop irritating our noses. in the mean time, you just wake up, you deal with it, you look them in the eyes (pollen doesn't have eyes) and you just co-exist. you both seem to hate each other, but you figure out a way to make it work. even though on the outside it seems normal, and strange. it doesn't make sense, since pollen doesn't have feelings, but it works, for now i guess. kind of like duct tape on a carbon frame.

now THAT is a rant about drama!
 
Dammit Pat, Kevin is right. Half of what you say is like listening to a friendly alien trying to explain interstellar travel. Ima put you on ignore. 😛

thought about this many times - in so many cases, drama works.

"OMG, this <blank> is killing me."
No it isn't - suck it up, and stop complaining.
see, i matched drama, with drama.

the big one is with kids, we take them from youngins, where we can tell
them the right thing to do, or that they were wrong, to some very low double digit age, where "telling them" produces some drama from both sides....
so it takes awhile to realize, just because "we" know the right thing, doesn't mean taking the role of director is the right one.

same crap at work or family. i alluded to it in a previous post - moving a person off a position can be damn near impossible without giving them a path
to walk down with their head up.

defending a position produces drama

you also mentioned language - what happens when command of the language falls short of communicating the point begin made.
kid, "I hate you" - really means "i was thinking about that ice cream trip all day, and now you are tired. You have disappointed me"
(of course kids don't anticipate anything more than 15 seconds away, which is why doing homework before 9pm......)

adult, "i hate you" - could mean "i'm jealous of your..."

Drama ensues.

saving add'l material for my thread 🙂
 
Dammit Pat, Kevin is right. Half of what you say is like listening to a friendly alien trying to explain interstellar travel. Ima put you on ignore. 😛

Damn, the people have spoken. I forget you aren't watching the movie playing in my mind!

i'll add more pictures. 😀
 
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Frontier gibberish comes to mind some days.

Today is day 10 of using LoseIt again and I am averaging about an 1100 calorie deficit per day. I guess it's just time to do this again, after like 2-3 years of trying to "eat right naturally". The unfortunate reality is that I don't eat right in any natural form. So for the time being, I will be using LoseIt, not the sister application that Iggy wrote for Matty, FoundIt. It really sucks when you have to eat like 1000 fewer calories a day. Then again, it's motivation to make sure you get on the bike and do something every day.

So my riding has gotten a little harder because of it. I pretty much dialed back my bike drinks to water only (plus a GU tab) and riding with no calories starts to add up on any ride approaching 2 hours. Last night I felt good for a while, then the last 20 minutes or so I felt like crap. Robin & Luke and I had gone to Jungle for some race pre-riding. When we went to grab dinner I felt like a zombie. I went home and drank something like 3 pints of water and 4 cups of tea. This after the 2 cups of water at dinner.

I'm debating doing the Jungle race this weekend. In the grand scheme of things I want to ride about 10 hours a week and stick with that ~1000 calorie hole a day. This pretty much means I'll show up on Sunday in some form of tired state. At the same time, riding is riding and a hard 2 hour ride can't hurt. Flipping that token, I have to buy a USAC license for this single race. I don't know if that makes it worth it. I really dislike USAC. I wish all the locals would go non-sanctioned.

I feel like my technical skills get better & better but if you ride Jungle long enough you will eat shit sooner or later. Towards the end of the ride it was Otter Slide that finally got me. First that rock build-up between the trees before Otter really starts. Front tire got wedged and I went OTB. Well it was one of those where I saw it coming, and I jumped out and landed clean. The bike slammed the rocks though.

Then on the way down I clipped a tree at speed and ate some dirt in semi-fantastic fashion. Robin was behind me so she may have gotten a good look at that one. Shortly after my foot clipped a rock. I didn't eat it on that one but it was close. Then closing out the ride with Animal Chute I was a train wreck going down that. The bike felt like shit, it was just all over the place and hard to control. I'm sure it was me but when the ride ended I wanted to throw the bike in the woods.

I don't know what I'll do here. But part of me feels like I should be racing the mountain bike now and again. Plus, it's good to support the good people, which the VWs are. Not the car.

On the shorter term radar, I need to figure out if I'm going to try and join the CR Pain Train tomorrow. Sadly, I will be on the receiving end of the pain. This is life, and the reality is that I'll likely get dropped. More than that, I need to figure out if I have the energy to even stick on the ride for 15 minutes. I'd like to, but not sure it makes sense given how tired I am right now. I guess I'll see how I feel tomorrow.
 
Good read just before I head out to yoga.

I did not see your crash on Otter Slide - just you picking yourself up. I did look around you to see what might have happened, guessing either you clipped a tree or pedal. My back is sore today. How did I race a HT there in the past? Three laps there is going to be...rough.

I broke down and bought a USAC license - I'm still on the fence whether to spend the extra $100 for UCI. I don't see the benefit of having a license - especially because I won't be going to Nationals.
 
Your out there and doing it sadly I am not. Take that as a positive and keep on trucking...
 
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