Auto repair

I have now, oh, hundreds of hours of riding a bicycle, almost all in a pretty urban environment. This means many, many iterations of pulling away from a stop sign next to cars doing the same, passing cars and having them pass me. Here is one really strongly enduring observation: How can people drive a car with bad wheel bearings? The noise bad bearings make is unmistakable and, at least to a bicyclist, penetratingly obvious.

Just an observation.

The weather site I read today gave a good explanation of the current weather pattern. The explanation is that a large air mass has stalled just to the west of us. With the mass stagnating we see the same pattern repeating every day. We continue to come under the influence of the counterclockwise rotation of the mass which produces southerly winds. The winds keep bringing up more moist air from further south. The moisture content is not extremely high, therefore the effect produces alternating "slots" of rain and shine. Today I was home for a dry slot. I got to ride my bike.

It was the last ride of the month and like the flat land contingent, I often have several round numbers that I find myself trying to attain at the end of each month. Not many rides at the end of this month so I missed out on most of the round numbers but I did get to one of them, a quite satisfying one at that. Month over, tomorrow I start anew.The rain has been spectacularly good for the corn. It looks to me like it has grown about an inch a day for the past week.