Obstructions

Yesterday I rode 67km out to a dam and back (33.5km each way).

Descending the range near home, I passed a blue tongue lizard that
appeared to be attempting a road crossing.

There were numerous dead wallabies on the side of the road, and a dead
fox on the road.

A magpie swooped me several times but didn't make contact, unlike the
one on Friday.

A wallaby darted off the road ahead of me, and a goanna just under a
metre long ran across the road just ahead of me as well.

No snakes this time, but goannas have been known to mistake a person for
a tree and climb up. With razor sharp claws and venom in their bite,
they are not to be trifled with!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ia_a_21627361/

Seriously though, the risk of death by goanna bite is probably about as
high as the chances of winning lotto for someone who doesn't buy tickets.

Council have stockpiled materials to replace a pick-a-plank bridge along
the road, so another terrible danger will soon be gone.

--
JS

On 9/5/2017 4:58 PM, James wrote:
Yesterday I rode 67km out to a dam and back (33.5km each way).

Descending the range near home, I passed a blue tongue
lizard that appeared to be attempting a road crossing.

There were numerous dead wallabies on the side of the road,
and a dead fox on the road.

A magpie swooped me several times but didn't make contact,
unlike the one on Friday.

A wallaby darted off the road ahead of me, and a goanna just
under a metre long ran across the road just ahead of me as
well.

No snakes this time, but goannas have been known to mistake
a person for a tree and climb up. With razor sharp claws
and venom in their bite, they are not to be trifled with!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ia_a_21627361/


Seriously though, the risk of death by goanna bite is
probably about as high as the chances of winning lotto for
someone who doesn't buy tickets.

Council have stockpiled materials to replace a pick-a-plank
bridge along the road, so another terrible danger will soon
be gone.


Yikes! I thought our unseasonably cool, windy, wet morning
sucked.
It was not as daunting as your ride!

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 06/09/17 08:12, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/5/2017 4:58 PM, James wrote:
Yesterday I rode 67km out to a dam and back (33.5km each way).

Descending the range near home, I passed a blue tongue
lizard that appeared to be attempting a road crossing.

There were numerous dead wallabies on the side of the road,
and a dead fox on the road.

A magpie swooped me several times but didn't make contact,
unlike the one on Friday.

A wallaby darted off the road ahead of me, and a goanna just
under a metre long ran across the road just ahead of me as
well.

No snakes this time, but goannas have been known to mistake
a person for a tree and climb up. With razor sharp claws
and venom in their bite, they are not to be trifled with!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ia_a_21627361/



Seriously though, the risk of death by goanna bite is
probably about as high as the chances of winning lotto for
someone who doesn't buy tickets.

Council have stockpiled materials to replace a pick-a-plank
bridge along the road, so another terrible danger will soon
be gone.


Yikes! I thought our unseasonably cool, windy, wet morning sucked.
It was not as daunting as your ride!


Oh, I had to contend with strong wind as well, however it was warm, dry
and sunny here. No rain for over 4 months so far, but it is likely the
drought will break over the next couple of months as the temperature and
humidity increase.

However, you can keep your unseasonably cool, windy and wet. That kind
of weather I don't miss since leaving Melbourne.

--
JS

On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 4:32:03 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 06/09/17 08:12, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/5/2017 4:58 PM, James wrote:
Yesterday I rode 67km out to a dam and back (33.5km each way).

Descending the range near home, I passed a blue tongue
lizard that appeared to be attempting a road crossing.

There were numerous dead wallabies on the side of the road,
and a dead fox on the road.

A magpie swooped me several times but didn't make contact,
unlike the one on Friday.

A wallaby darted off the road ahead of me, and a goanna just
under a metre long ran across the road just ahead of me as
well.

No snakes this time, but goannas have been known to mistake
a person for a tree and climb up. With razor sharp claws
and venom in their bite, they are not to be trifled with!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ia_a_21627361/



Seriously though, the risk of death by goanna bite is
probably about as high as the chances of winning lotto for
someone who doesn't buy tickets.

Council have stockpiled materials to replace a pick-a-plank
bridge along the road, so another terrible danger will soon
be gone.


Yikes! I thought our unseasonably cool, windy, wet morning sucked.
It was not as daunting as your ride!


Oh, I had to contend with strong wind as well, however it was warm, dry
and sunny here. No rain for over 4 months so far, but it is likely the
drought will break over the next couple of months as the temperature and
humidity increase.

However, you can keep your unseasonably cool, windy and wet. That kind
of weather I don't miss since leaving Melbourne.

It's scorching here -- literally.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-whip...075128654.html

It's hard to breathe with all the smoke (no joke), but at least no mamba snakes or poisonous lizards crawling up my legs. This is the hottest summer on record in PDX, and it's getting old fast. We need a huge dump to put out all the fires, and that's not in the forecast.

-- Jay Beattie.

On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:25:06 AM UTC-4, jbeattie wrote:
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It's scorching here -- literally.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-whip...075128654.html

It's hard to breathe with all the smoke (no joke), but at least no mamba snakes or poisonous lizards crawling up my legs. This is the hottest summer on record in PDX, and it's getting old fast. We need a huge dump to put out all the fires, and that's not in the forecast.

-- Jay Beattie.

At least it's fires causing those problems and not Mount Ranier erupting.

I hope all you people stay safe.

Cheers

On 07/09/17 00:25, jbeattie wrote:


It's scorching here -- literally.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-whip...075128654.html

It's hard to breathe with all the smoke (no joke), but at least no
mamba snakes or poisonous lizards crawling up my legs. This is the
hottest summer on record in PDX, and it's getting old fast. We need
a huge dump to put out all the fires, and that's not in the
forecast.


It isn't scotching here, yet. But we have gone nearly 5 months without
rain, and the West winds have dried everything out. There are numerous
fires burning within a 100km radius of where we live, but at the moment
there is no smoke at home. However, my ride today took me about 30km
South and the air was noticeably smoky there.

So, I'm hearing you. We need rain here too.

--
JS

On 9/6/2017 9:25 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 4:32:03 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 06/09/17 08:12, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/5/2017 4:58 PM, James wrote:
Yesterday I rode 67km out to a dam and back (33.5km each way).

Descending the range near home, I passed a blue tongue
lizard that appeared to be attempting a road crossing.

There were numerous dead wallabies on the side of the road,
and a dead fox on the road.

A magpie swooped me several times but didn't make contact,
unlike the one on Friday.

A wallaby darted off the road ahead of me, and a goanna just
under a metre long ran across the road just ahead of me as
well.

No snakes this time, but goannas have been known to mistake
a person for a tree and climb up. With razor sharp claws
and venom in their bite, they are not to be trifled with!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ia_a_21627361/



Seriously though, the risk of death by goanna bite is
probably about as high as the chances of winning lotto for
someone who doesn't buy tickets.

Council have stockpiled materials to replace a pick-a-plank
bridge along the road, so another terrible danger will soon
be gone.


Yikes! I thought our unseasonably cool, windy, wet morning sucked.
It was not as daunting as your ride!


Oh, I had to contend with strong wind as well, however it was warm, dry
and sunny here. No rain for over 4 months so far, but it is likely the
drought will break over the next couple of months as the temperature and
humidity increase.

However, you can keep your unseasonably cool, windy and wet. That kind
of weather I don't miss since leaving Melbourne.

It's scorching here -- literally.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-whip...075128654.html

It's hard to breathe with all the smoke (no joke), but at least no mamba snakes or poisonous lizards crawling up my legs. This is the hottest summer on record in PDX, and it's getting old fast. We need a huge dump to put out all the fires, and that's not in the forecast.

-- Jay Beattie.


One wonders why arson is no longer a capital crime. But hey,
Oregon culture.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 6:14:12 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:

One wonders why arson is no longer a capital crime. But hey,
Oregon culture.

One wonders why they don't believe in the value of human life and property. But as you say - Oregon is an entire state of people that must come from San Francisco.

Some man got tired of some deer eating his extremely expensive landscaping and shot two of them with a high powered pellet gun killing them. There was 20 minutes on the news about this being a hate crime that would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In San Francisco this is probably 100 times worse that the knock out robberies that are committed daily. People as old as 86 have been hospitalized and they have clear pictures of the felon and somehow no one can find him. But killing deer is REALLY important.

On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 6:14:12 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/6/2017 9:25 AM, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 4:32:03 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 06/09/17 08:12, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/5/2017 4:58 PM, James wrote:
Yesterday I rode 67km out to a dam and back (33.5km each way).

Descending the range near home, I passed a blue tongue
lizard that appeared to be attempting a road crossing.

There were numerous dead wallabies on the side of the road,
and a dead fox on the road.

A magpie swooped me several times but didn't make contact,
unlike the one on Friday.

A wallaby darted off the road ahead of me, and a goanna just
under a metre long ran across the road just ahead of me as
well.

No snakes this time, but goannas have been known to mistake
a person for a tree and climb up. With razor sharp claws
and venom in their bite, they are not to be trifled with!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ia_a_21627361/



Seriously though, the risk of death by goanna bite is
probably about as high as the chances of winning lotto for
someone who doesn't buy tickets.

Council have stockpiled materials to replace a pick-a-plank
bridge along the road, so another terrible danger will soon
be gone.


Yikes! I thought our unseasonably cool, windy, wet morning sucked.
It was not as daunting as your ride!


Oh, I had to contend with strong wind as well, however it was warm, dry
and sunny here. No rain for over 4 months so far, but it is likely the
drought will break over the next couple of months as the temperature and
humidity increase.

However, you can keep your unseasonably cool, windy and wet. That kind
of weather I don't miss since leaving Melbourne.

It's scorching here -- literally.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-whip...075128654.html

It's hard to breathe with all the smoke (no joke), but at least no mamba snakes or poisonous lizards crawling up my legs. This is the hottest summer on record in PDX, and it's getting old fast. We need a huge dump to put out all the fires, and that's not in the forecast.

-- Jay Beattie.


One wonders why arson is no longer a capital crime. But hey,
Oregon culture.

I don't think arson has been a capital crime in any state for 200 years -- except arson-related homicide or arson of an occupied house at night (e.g. Va.) Some dopey kids lit off fireworks around Eagle Creek -- which was supremely stupid, but I think stupid kids exist in all 50 US states and are unaffected by the criminal laws. One hopes they are found and punished.

-- Jay Beattie.

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 07:58:29 +1000, James
wrote:

Yesterday I rode 67km out to a dam and back (33.5km each way).

Descending the range near home, I passed a blue tongue lizard that
appeared to be attempting a road crossing.

There were numerous dead wallabies on the side of the road, and a dead
fox on the road.

A magpie swooped me several times but didn't make contact, unlike the
one on Friday.

A wallaby darted off the road ahead of me, and a goanna just under a
metre long ran across the road just ahead of me as well.

No snakes this time, but goannas have been known to mistake a person for
a tree and climb up. With razor sharp claws and venom in their bite,
they are not to be trifled with!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ia_a_21627361/


And a some goannas grow pretty big. I read some are as much as eight
feet long.... longer, even, then a mountain lion.

But more important I read that "An international research team led by
Dr Bryan Fry, of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University
of Melbourne, and colleagues at Monash University", published a paper
in 2005 titled Aussie Lizard Bites Can Really Hurt".

As I can find no reference to anyone publishing anything about the
pain of mountain lion bites it must be that the Australian Lizard is a
much more dangerious creature.

Seriously though, the risk of death by goanna bite is probably about as
high as the chances of winning lotto for someone who doesn't buy tickets.

Council have stockpiled materials to replace a pick-a-plank bridge along
the road, so another terrible danger will soon be gone.
--
Cheers,

John B.