"Marlene Blanshay" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:blanshay- [email hidden]... [...]
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We're getting some nice springlike weather for at least the next few days- temps in the 40s. Of course, it won't last and for sure we'll get walloped between now and the end of winter. And with March coming in like a lamb, that means getting walloped at the end of the month!
Oh yah. I like to wait until everyone is _sure_ that the snow is done, usually at the end of March, and say; 'Not so fast! We've got one more storm coming. Take it to the bank.'
For me the certainty that spring has sprung is when the city gets the sweeper and vacuum machines out to clear away the salt/sand residue crud. Usually we get the last snow just after that.
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Don't remind me- I was just setting out on my first nice ride of the year last april when BAM! Some piece of [censored] on the road caused me to puncture. It was this big staple! I just stood there for a second going WAAAAAAA! like Lucy. By coincidence, this nice guy stopped and asked me if I needed any help, so my ride was saved. In return, I bought him a tube at the shop and told them to give it to him on my account. And it's awful when a big breeze comes up and blows all that dust and [censored] in your face!
Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:24:32 GMT, <[email hidden]>, Mike Latondresse
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Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:
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I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a reliable judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered with crocuses, their blooms not quite open yet.
Hey my Camellia is starting to open. Must be 20 or 30 full blossoms of the 20K that are to come.
The crocus and a few mushrooms were popping up through the snow we had in January. The daffodils on the south side are almost ready to bloom. The ones on the north side haven't formed buds but the horsetail is pushing through the asphalt. -- zk
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:53:12 GMT, [email hidden] (Marlene Blanshay)
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In article <[email hidden]>, "loki"
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"Marlene Blanshay" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:blanshay- [email hidden]... [...]
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We're getting some nice springlike weather for at least the next few days- temps in the 40s. Of course, it won't last and for sure we'll get walloped between now and the end of winter. And with March coming in like a lamb, that means getting walloped at the end of the month!
Oh yah. I like to wait until everyone is _sure_ that the snow is done, usually at the end of March, and say; 'Not so fast! We've got one more storm coming. Take it to the bank.'
For me the certainty that spring has sprung is when the city gets the sweeper and vacuum machines out to clear away the salt/sand residue crud. Usually we get the last snow just after that.
🙂
Don't remind me- I was just setting out on my first nice ride of the year last april when BAM! Some piece of [censored] on the road caused me to puncture. It was this big staple! I just stood there for a second going WAAAAAAA! like Lucy. By coincidence, this nice guy stopped and asked me if I needed any help, so my ride was saved. In return, I bought him a tube at the shop and told them to give it to him on my account. And it's awful when a big breeze comes up and blows all that dust and [censored] in your face!
Hey, I go WAAAAAA! Too. That's just required. Your 'steed' is wounded!
The important thing is to stand there and pretend to look at your quads all-round to assure your lycra knickers aren't ripped - while he's fixing the tire - or so I've heard. ;-p
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:00:11 -0500, Badger_South <[email hidden]>
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last april when BAM! Some piece of [censored] on the road caused me to puncture. It was this big staple! I just stood there for a second going WAAAAAAA!
Hey, I go WAAAAAA! Too. That's just required. Your 'steed' is wounded!
I think the Klingon Death Roar is valid, too. -- Rick Onanian
Tanya <[email hidden]> wrote: : Ya now that its getting warmer lots more people on bikes come out, and playing the leapfrog game - : my pet peeve is when I pass a much slower cyclist, and then they proceed to pass me back at every : light because they run through red ones, and then I have to wait for a gap to pass them back : again. Not much leapfrog in winter.
3 hour urban bike rides with ONE other person starting at 2 or 3am and ending in front of a donut shop or white castle are a favourite of mine for avoiding all that extra action. gotta be warm for that .. night time rides in the winter are not as fun. there has to be a big lake, river or ocean in there somewhere, tho.
there are no oceans, lakes or rivers where i am now. big, big :-(
extras for topping off a water bottle with becherovka.czbecherovka.czOpen ↗ (hint, i'm not talking about the teddy bear). -- david reuteler [email hidden]
Tanya <[email hidden]> wrote: : Ya now that its getting warmer lots more people on bikes come out, and playing the leapfrog game : - my pet peeve is when I pass a much slower cyclist, and then they proceed to pass me back at : every light because they run through red ones, and then I have to wait for a gap to pass them : back again. Not much leapfrog in winter.
3 hour urban bike rides with ONE other person starting at 2 or 3am and ending in front of a donut shop or white castle are a favourite of mine for avoiding all that extra action. gotta be warm for that .. night time rides in the winter are not as fun. there has to be a big lake, river or ocean in there somewhere, tho.
I love doing 'odd hours' things like that. I can be wide awake at that time slot.
Here's my off-beat late night ride idea. I got a night scope for my b-day, and I've figured out a way that you can put on your helmet and see in the dark (one eye only). I had the thought of riding the bike trail in the complete darkness, (or on a full moon night), without lights. That's a -little- creepier than riding the streets. Will get around to it this summer. Of course the trail is supposed to be closed, but there are no signs to that effect and the trail starts 300 feet from my backyard
Of course I'll ride slowly so as to avoid riding into the river...nah, strike that. ;-p
"Ryan Cousineau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message ...
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I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a reliable judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered with crocuses, their blooms not quite open yet.
Must be nice, it snowed on the guys out training in Gent for this weekend's Het Volk race. The conditions on the Eikenberg and the Molenberg were the worst I've ever seen them.
Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:18:47 GMT, <H7R%b.615187$JQ1.187751@pd7tw1no>, The Only "Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> observed:
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Must be nice, it snowed on the guys out training in Gent for this weekend's Het Volk race. The conditions on the Eikenberg and the Molenberg were the worst I've ever seen them.
What did you expect from last year's eyewear? -- zk
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01:44:18 -0800, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]>
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Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:18:47 GMT, <H7R%b.615187$JQ1.187751@pd7tw1no>, The Only "Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> observed:
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Must be nice, it snowed on the guys out training in Gent for this weekend's Het Volk race. The conditions on the Eikenberg and the Molenberg were the worst I've ever seen them.
What did you expect from last year's eyewear?
Swoosh - passes overhead like a Nike logo.
Must be a name dropping gear thing. o Buck Knives Gent folder o Jan van Gent Motorboats o Gent collection of Swatch watches.
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:16:41 -0500, Badger_South <[email hidden]>
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Zoot Katz said:
Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:18:47 GMT, <H7R%b.615187$JQ1.187751@pd7tw1no>, The Only "Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> observed:
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Must be nice, it snowed on the guys out training in Gent for this weekend's Het Volk race. The conditions on the Eikenberg and the Molenberg were the worst I've ever seen them.
What did you expect from last year's eyewear?
Swoosh - passes overhead like a Nike logo.
Ghent, being a Flemish city (as in Treaty of Ghent)
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:54:43 -0500, Luigi de Guzman <[email hidden]>
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Badger_South said:
Zoot Katz said:
Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:18:47 GMT, <H7R%b.615187$JQ1.187751@pd7tw1no>, The Only "Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> observed:
>Must be nice, it snowed on the guys out training in Gent for this weekend's Het Volk race. The >conditions on the Eikenberg and the Molenberg were the worst I've ever seen them.
What did you expect from last year's eyewear?
Swoosh - passes overhead like a Nike logo.
Ghent, being a Flemish city (as in Treaty of Ghent)
Oh, the place where they have the World's Largest pair of Sunglasses.
On 27 Feb 2004 22:54:03 GMT, David Reuteler <[email hidden]>
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3 hour urban bike rides with ONE other person starting at 2 or 3am and ending in front of a donut shop or white castle are a favourite of mine for avoiding all that extra action. gotta be warm for that .. night time rides in the winter are not as fun. there has to be a big lake, river or ocean in there somewhere, tho.
Why, is it necessary to slog through the ocean on such a ride? -- Rick Onanian
I got in my first 25 mile ride today !!! The temp's broke 50 here in New England. There is nothing like that first ride of the season.
Close to 60 here in DC. Spent the day riding around and shooting photos. It's great to ride without winter duds.
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Ooh, you lucky guy. Unless the photography was (for) work. But even then ... ooh, you lucky guy.
I was just thinking about how photogenically dynamic and wild March skies can be, and replete with all kinds of natural light effects. We're entering a magical time of year for shutterbuggery.
cheers, Tom
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Ooh, you lucky guy. Unless the photography was (for) work. But even then ... ooh, you lucky guy.
Work was not in the picture. I was on my homebound commute on Friday and I noticed those photogenic March skies with the artistic contrails in them and I said to myself, self, you need a camera for this stuff.
So I bought a camera (I had a camera but it died on my trip to the Northern Neck, if you recall).
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We're entering a magical time of year for shutterbuggery.
As far as I'm concerned any sort of buggery is right out of the picture, Keats.
:-)
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