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Autumn
You know its coming, faster and faster every day.
It starts by just wearing a light jacket in the morning. Riding in the first fall rains. Putting the fenders and lights back on the bike. The last official club event of the year. The first ride where your fingers turn numb and you realize you need to go to the full-finger gloves. The first ride where your legs are really, really cold, and you realize it's time to get out the tights. Wearing a wool shirt as an outer layer -- then a wool shirt with a fleece vest. The first day where you ride to work the entire ride in the dark -- and all the way home in the dark, too. Booties on the day it rains hard. Then it's November. It rains, and rains, and rains. High of 43, low of 41, the paper says, day after day. Endless rain, darkness, and a little voice in your head says, "Mexico...Mexico...Mexico..." -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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Claire Petersky wrote:
You know its coming, faster and faster every day. It starts by just wearing a light jacket in the morning. Riding in the first fall rains. Putting the fenders and lights back on the bike. The last official club event of the year. The first ride where your fingers turn numb and you realize you need to go to the full-finger gloves. The first ride where your legs are really, really cold, and you realize it's time to get out the tights. Wearing a wool shirt as an outer layer -- then a wool shirt with a fleece vest. The first day where you ride to work the entire ride in the dark -- and all the way home in the dark, too. Booties on the day it rains hard. Then it's November. It rains, and rains, and rains. High of 43, low of 41, the paper says, day after day. Endless rain, darkness, and a little voice in your head says, "Mexico...Mexico...Mexico..." Dang it, Claire, I already want to move to New Mexico and it's only September! :-D -km -- Only cowards fight kids -- unidentified Moscow protester the black rose proud to be owned by a yorkie http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts |
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Claire Petersky wrote:
You know its coming, faster and faster every day. It starts by just wearing a light jacket in the morning. Riding in the first fall rains. Putting the fenders and lights back on the bike. The last official club event of the year. The first ride where your fingers turn numb and you realize you need to go to the full-finger gloves. The first ride where your legs are really, really cold, and you realize it's time to get out the tights. Wearing a wool shirt as an outer layer -- then a wool shirt with a fleece vest. The first day where you ride to work the entire ride in the dark -- and all the way home in the dark, too. Booties on the day it rains hard. Then it's November. It rains, and rains, and rains. High of 43, low of 41, the paper says, day after day. Endless rain, darkness, and a little voice in your head says, "Mexico...Mexico...Mexico..." We don't get the rain issue often here in San Diego, but on my solo night mountain bike rides on Wednesdays the light goes on sooner and sooner. Alas, two nights ago the light was turned on before I left the parking lot. Bill "then we'll turn the clocks back and then will come knee and arm warmers and vests and...well, SD still rocks" S. |
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"S o r n i" wrote in message
[...] Bill "then we'll turn the clocks back and then will come knee and arm warmers and vests and...well, SD still rocks" S. Yes, well. It's supposedly spring and we just had our second coldest day of the year. Guess who got caught in the hail. -- A: Top-posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? |
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In article .net,
"Claire Petersky" writes: Then it's November. It rains, and rains, and rains. High of 43, low of 41, the paper says, day after day. Endless rain, darkness, and a little voice in your head says, "Mexico...Mexico...Mexico..." "Weekend, weekend, weekend," anyways. I've gotta go up to my brother's ranch in the BC Interior for Canadian Thanksgiving. The turkey will be one he raised & killed, himself. Probably a gimped one, because his good ones go to market. I hope I get the sole drumstick. I like turkey dark meat. Anyhow, I find bakery confections with flakey pastry are especially wonderful in the autumn. I just hate the fog. But, hey -- mushrooms! cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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"Claire Petersky" wrote in message
link.net... You know its coming, faster and faster every day. It starts by just wearing a light jacket in the morning. Riding in the first fall rains. Putting the fenders and lights back on the bike. The last official club event of the year. The first ride where your fingers turn numb and you realize you need to go to the full-finger gloves. The first ride where your legs are really, really cold, and you realize it's time to get out the tights. Wearing a wool shirt as an outer layer -- then a wool shirt with a fleece vest. The first day where you ride to work the entire ride in the dark -- and all the way home in the dark, too. Booties on the day it rains hard. Then it's November. It rains, and rains, and rains. High of 43, low of 41, the paper says, day after day. Endless rain, darkness, and a little voice in your head says, "Mexico...Mexico...Mexico..." Hey, living in Seattle & complaining about rain doesn't add up, didn't anybody tell you before you moved? Personally, I hate cold rain more than any other conditions, I'll take the single digit winter rides we get in Boston first. Fortunately, our autumn tends to be dry (usual disclaimers about NE weather), that, and the foliage, make it arguably the best cycling season. It *almost* compensates for the shortening days. To me, the real end of the season is when the clocks fall back. I don't grumble about the weather so much as the latitude. Oh well, London is worse... |
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"Peter Cole" wrote in message
news:rOW0d.162378$9d6.84718@attbi_s54... Hey, living in Seattle & complaining about rain doesn't add up, didn't anybody tell you before you moved? You mean, before my great-grandparents came here 114 years ago? Me, I didn't have much say in the matter. Popped out of my mother, and here I was. To me, the real end of the season is when the clocks fall back. Yes, and it's dark, dark, dark. Sorry, it's just been such a lovely summer, I'm having problems letting it go. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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Claire Petersky wrote:
Sorry, it's just been such a lovely summer, I'm having problems letting it go. I can relate to that. Up here in upstate NY, we didn't really have a summer. More like an extended spring. A very wet, extended spring. Our July was the second wettest on record by only a few hundredths of an inch. But the fall is turning lovely, and it's warmer than the summer was. That's gonna be hard to let go of. I'm a weenie who doesn't like to be cold. -km -- Only cowards fight kids -- unidentified Moscow protester the black rose proud to be owned by a yorkie http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts |
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"Claire Petersky" wrote in message
link.net.\ snip- Riding in the first fall rains. Putting the fenders and lights back on the bike. The last official club event of the year. no club events in the winter? do they not ride in the rain? i was thinking about joining a club ride for the first time. am i too late? the weather here isn't that bad. i grew up in phenix and i love it in seattle, like the winter better than hot weather and the fall is the best. BTW the atmospheric scientist on the radio said last week that this year is shaping up to be an el nino because the southern pacific temps are warmer than normal. for us in seattle that means drier and warmer than normal... -alan |
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"dreaded" wrote in message
... "Claire Petersky" wrote in message link.net.\ snip- Riding in the first fall rains. Putting the fenders and lights back on the bike. The last official club event of the year. no club events in the winter? Club rides, yes, every day, and multiple choices at different levels on the weekends. But events? Once we have the Kitsap Color Classic October 3, 2004, that's it, until the Chilly Hilly in February. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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