Local mood control

Air temperature 51 F, wind near calm, airport claims partly cloudy but I don't think those thin streaks on the horizon count. Foraging morning, bike ride afternoon? Don't plan on watching the "debate" -- I doubt if the event will justify the name. A synopsis should suffice.

Technological

Managed to resume useful flow on a bathroom faucet by taking the aerator apart and putting it back together. This act seems to have dislodged enough crud. Still not as much flow as its twin on the adjacent sink, so I'll be looking for a replacement the next time we visit Home Despot . . .

Tuesday no-goose report

Geese neither on the outward leg nor the return of my route. Too early for them to have headed south, so I am assuming they have other grazing grounds.

Roadkill included a crow that had been too interested in something in the road, and a porcupine near a farm pond about 5 miles into my ride. Also a couple of partial squirrels. Numerous woolly bears.

Most of the maples out in the bog have started to turn and some have already dropped leaves. Goldenrod in vast banks of yellow, probably yet another variety. Asters, of course.

Got out on the bike, upriver and inland through the bog and home again. Did not die.

15.33 miles, 1:23:55