BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

It was definitely fall today. The Weather Channel said 71 at the downtown airport at shortly past noon but Mikey J's weather site said 65 in Little Canada. The radar revealed that there was a front lurking out to the northwest and a possibility of something also developing to the southwest. All in all, not an extremely promising day before the ride. We are both pictured in this entry and you can see we both went with long sleeves and neither one of us ever felt overheated. It was definitely fall today.

Here is a view of my cyclocomputer. This is the trip distance setting. You don't get the first digit on this setting but it was also a "9".This is the odometer total setting. This number, seldom seen on a bicycle odometer, speaks for itself.Here's where I was when this occurred. It is at the north end of the Lake Vadnais access road.About the this time I got a really good look at the northwestern sky and didn't like what I saw. We rode down to the lake and I got a good look at the southwestern sky and didn't like what I saw. We rode hard all the way home, no resting. When we got close enough that it was obvious that we had beaten the rain, we stopped for one last look at the corn field, Babe for scale.The remaining corn seems to have reverted to that knee high status. Here in the corner of the field the harvester making turns often misses a few stalks. I gleaned those ears off a couple of stalks that had been run down instead of chopped off. The geese will be along to clean up those ears. And that really and finally is the end of the corn series.