Still no snow in yard

Air temperature 42 F, wind near calm, sunny. As far as I can tell, the world did not end overnight. Bike ride maybe.

Reminder -- not tame

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/14/news/hancock/bryce-basso-death-acadia-national-park-otter-cliffs/

Why my books don't sell

I'm reading a recent novel that has a lot of glowing reviews and finding it decidedly meh. Slow development, prose that obscures, and characters that haven't made me care . . .

Not yet dropping it unfinished, but it is on that road.

Saturday wildlife report

Five geese by the cemetery pond. I suspect at least one more, as an odd number is odd in the spring. Lots of dueling cardinals yammering away.

Roadkill limited to the human sort -- truck passed me with a smoking right rear wheel, probably brake dragging. Had to follow that stink for a couple of miles. Also, people ignoring a couple of oncoming sirens at a traffic light.

Got out on the bike, upriver to the junkyard and back, just warm enough and little wind. Did not die

10 miles, 1:00, both approximate.