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So I figured out why the front shifter on my bike wouldn't stay adjusted. The cable was busy breaking strand by strand inside the sheath. I was about five miles from the shack when it finally let go. After deploying a few appropriate phrases, I rummaged around and found the perfect rock to wedge it into high gear. I can get by on the rear shifter for a few days. But I need granny low for when the hill o' death is open again.
I don't normally have a hay fever problem, but out by the prairie I sneezed my head off for about ten minutes and then it was over. Completely soaked the paper towel I had and things got soggy and ew. Oh well, if thats my hay fever season I don't have it so bad. But on the path by the creek there was maybe a foot between mosquitoes. I got pelted like rain and got a few down my shirt. But they seem to be too young to know what to do yet and I got away unpranged. In a couple weeks when they have it figured out I'll have to make sure I'm out of there well before dusk. Aside from all that it was a gorgeous sunny breezy spring day.
Then I scorched up a pretty decent clean-out-the-fridge stew if I do say so myself. Diced and seared chuck roast and Italian sausage with shrooms, garlic, three kinds of peppers, and carrots in a peppery tomato broth. That worked.
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