Too hot for bike riding, and also somebody did me a solid.

I put 24 miles on the ebike before 9:30…

Needed to go to town and very much wanted to get it done before it got too hot. So I left right after morning walkie and chores. Everything went perfectly, no problems at all, but as soon as I got out of the airflow and started storing and charging the bike I broke into an all-over muck sweat that hasn’t stopped yet. It’s an electric bike: It’s not like I was working all that hard. But I was working a little, for two hours straight, plus all the bouncing around and sand steering. And by the home stretch the outside temperature was pushing 90^o with full sun. So, yeah. Well into its second week now, this heat wave is becoming oppressive and so far Monsoon has been an almost total bust.

Somebody sent me a nice gift…

I mentioned that a week ago I had an unexpected flood when a plastic water diverter gave way on the yard spigot: Just fell right off. A Generous Reader – apparently immediately – sent me a fairly expensive replacement that will probably solve that problem permanently. Thanks a lot!