Lawns are going brown

Air temperature 57 F, wind near calm, sunny. Trash out, to include a fall web-worm nest extracted from our flowering crab tree out back. Bike ride later, last before the heat stomps us with 90s F forecast for Sunday and into next week. We might get some thunderstorms next Thursday. Or might not.

Friday roadkill report

Couple of mummified squirrels on my route, one bit of flattened fur that I would call a woodchuck if it wasn't for the pale underside so it could have been a marten, a patch of feathers gray and white that I think was one of my standard mockingbirds. Or maybe a youngster from that family, operating on a student pilot's license . . .

Usual late summer flowers, tansy and goldenrod and chicory and Queen Anne's lace. City has mowed some milkweed, tough luck monarchs.

No interesting metal birds out at the airport/base. Only air traffic was a noisy light plane landing.

Got out on the bike, across town and back over the hills and dales. Air temperature either 77 or 82 F, depending on which thermometer you choose, excessive for elderly cyclists and gonna get worse. Did not die.

15.69 miles, 1:28:34