Autumnal morning

Temperature in the 40s F now, overnight low in the 30s.  No frost yet at our precise location, although the back-country pumpkins have been killed.  Waiting for the mid-50s before I go out for my bike ride.  Blue sky, so the sun should provide incentive.

So far, little wind.

Sunday roadkill report

Flat squirrels, raccoon, skunk, weasel.

Not-roadkill: a flock of turkeys grazing the roadside ditch on Clewleyville Road (7-8 birds, all hens), a prime-looking red fox loping across the road near Copeland Hill.

Temperature climbed into the 50s F and the wind stayed gone, so I pulled on my fuzzy jacket over bike gear and headed upriver.  I guess the forecast wind came through last night -- something did, that's for sure.  Anyway, walked the bike across that Bridge of the Damned, biked back downriver, and detoured into the hills with a stop at Wife's nature center to admire monarch butterfly chrysalis (chrysalii?) and industrious red squirrels.  Thence home, to couch-potato a few football games.

40.33 miles, 3:11:45

Three more miles and I reach 1000 for the year.  I was strong -- I didn't circle the neighborhood until the numbers rolled over.   Although "rolled over" doesn't apply to this odometer, totally electronic instead of mechanical...

James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (Robert Jordan) 1948-2007

Reported on sff.net

From his website:
http://www.dragonmount.com/

(Not verified elsewhere...)