Lucky to have an exercise outlet

As the young people continue to demonstrate by their refusal to rely upon old school daily ink and paper presentations of information, instead preferring the "intertubes" to inform themselves about the daily world, newspaper information, particularly newspaper weather information, is just so, so old news.

The morning newspaper proclaimed 84 sunny and warm.  By noon the intertubes were predicting something in the 70s with 40 percent chance of rain.  As the young people know the intertubes weather forecast ended up being far more accurate.

I am by now overly familiar with the not to far from home loops.  I rode them again today. 71 at the Cattle Barn at 2:55, not exactly OOTND any time recently.

News?  Well the wind was mostly west today making the uphill from Lauderdale fun and easy (tail wind).  Other than that, it's pretty much the same stuff I am seeing every day of late.

But here's something.  Yesterday's corn picture seemed like corn way behind schedule.  On the other hand today over by the Falcon Heights City Hall they were just planting one of the fields.

On that field they may be lucky to have sprouting by Flag Day (the young people may not know when that is) and corn struggling for calf high by the Fourth of July.

That's the Gibbs Farm in the background.

I noticed something else today.  Here is what they do in Falcon Heights with a street that if you drive down it you are going to have to turn around and drive right back.

That's Lindig Street running north from Larpenteur.  When you get down to the far end of the block there is a gate blocking a dirt road that continues on into an area of community gardening.

It's actually kinda nice down there and it is a place that I walk early in spring after the snow is mostly gone but before you can ride your bike.  Like yesterday for most of us I guess.

Here is how we deal with the same situation in the suburb where I live.

So what's my point? That other suburb seems awfully déclassé, don't you think?

For further illumination of the point here is a similar situation being dealt with in an entirely different way over on the Fairgrounds.

I made it home dry at about 3:15.  At about 4pm it rained.

Not hard rain, not rain for a prolonged period.  But definitely not 84 and sunny.

Our carnivore index has been a little low lately.

That dang cottonwood tree throws down seeds everywhere at this time of year, even onto the hot grill and coals.  Given the amount of actual cooking involved in producing this main course it doesn't seem like an appropriate entry for the cooking blog.