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The neighborhood news
May. 29th, 2025 10:12 amRowan trees blooming while the ornamental crab-apples shed petals. Spirea bushes going white, some irises open, and one lupine has actual flowers. Met up with Ms. Sasha for a petting-purring session. The world has improved. No sign of the park geese when I was walking past there.
Wednesday goose report
May. 28th, 2025 11:42 amFour geese seen at the cemetery pond on my way out, two visible when I came back through. They can hide well when they want to.
Curled dock up, can't tell if it is blooming or not -- green flowers. Also equisetum, horsetails, I think at least two species. And the buttercups are spreading in that horse pasture. Which I complain about every year, but that gets me nowhere.
Got out on the bike, up to the golf course and back, viewing with alarm all the dig-safe graffiti on the asphalt. Looks very much like a few miles of new paving. That's a US highway, and I demand my taxpayer rights -- they can only pave roads when I don't want to use them. Anyway, did not die. Although my body reminds me that this is a possible outcome . . .
12.05 miles, 1:10:24
Curled dock up, can't tell if it is blooming or not -- green flowers. Also equisetum, horsetails, I think at least two species. And the buttercups are spreading in that horse pasture. Which I complain about every year, but that gets me nowhere.
Got out on the bike, up to the golf course and back, viewing with alarm all the dig-safe graffiti on the asphalt. Looks very much like a few miles of new paving. That's a US highway, and I demand my taxpayer rights -- they can only pave roads when I don't want to use them. Anyway, did not die. Although my body reminds me that this is a possible outcome . . .
12.05 miles, 1:10:24
Return of the geese
May. 28th, 2025 06:53 amAir temperature 53 F, wind northeast at about 1 mph, sunny. Pair of geese in the middle of the park, declaring it off-limits to any children and small dogs. I don't think they are nesting out there, as we don't have any open water within about half a mile. Planning a longer bike ride, up to the country club and back.
Signs of spring rolling?
May. 27th, 2025 12:35 pmBeen seeing the summer toys come out of garage, big loud horsepower totally out of place on 25 mph residential roads. I'm not hip enough to ID most of them, but Corvettes and Porsches for sure. Low-slung beasts that may still have trouble with road conditions.
Monday goose report
May. 26th, 2025 05:53 pmSix geese claiming their hereditary rights to the grass by the cemetery pond. No idea if they included our park geese. Also, mockingbird claiming his rights to the high ground.
Wild apple and cherry trees blooming outside of town. Wild mustard and buttercups adding yellow to the roadside dandelions.
Temperature got up over 60 F, sunny, light winds. Got out on the bike for the first time in weeks, upriver to the turn-around of my ignominious fall. Did not die.
10.04 miles, 1:02:24
Wild apple and cherry trees blooming outside of town. Wild mustard and buttercups adding yellow to the roadside dandelions.
Temperature got up over 60 F, sunny, light winds. Got out on the bike for the first time in weeks, upriver to the turn-around of my ignominious fall. Did not die.
10.04 miles, 1:02:24
