How do you spell relief?

Temperature in the 50s F overnight, 64 now.  Dew point 54.  Little wind.

Sounds like a bicycle ride to me.

Friday roadkill report

Couple of squashed squirrels, new since Tuesday.  Actually, most of Tuesday's count has vanished, although one gray patch of fur may date back to that.

If curses have effect, a couple of truckers will become roadkill in some tidy, no-innocents-involved fashion.  They couldn't wait a few seconds until we reached the top of that hill, had to pass right now!   Blind.  On a section of road with no paved shoulder.

May they be reincarnated endlessly as armadillos in the middle of a Texas interstate highway.

As per previous post, the weather has improved.  A little more wind than I'd prefer, but that's life.  Queen Anne's lace blooming.

15.29 miles, 1:09:03

Further exercise

Okay, the power lawnmower has gone on strike.  Starts, but sputters and dies -- diagnosis is a fuel feed problem.  I've pulled the fuel line and blown it out, drained the tank, no problem there.  Ergo, carburetor.   Perhaps a sticking float valve or gunk in the needle.  I've seen reports that this happens with older engines when we switch from MTBE to ethanol as an additive...

Anyhow, just ran the Jim-power reel lawnmower around our yard, instead.  Emergency backup system.  And a blow to the petro-oligarchs.

But I haven't used some of those muscles in 20 years.