Good time had at 2pm

It was 72 when we headed out at about 9:30 this morning but the dew point was already into the 60s. It was already just a tiny bit unpleasant outside. Still we thought that we could suck it up and get home before it got completely horrible.

We made good time on the outward leg. Not much has changed at beaver central.

We were regaled by a geezerette who filled us in on the role taken by her resident geezer who for a time had been sneaking over there every evening and opening up the dam. Eventually he tired of competition with the beavers.

Too many beavers, too many hours in the day.

By the time we reached Lake Vadnais it was HOT. And steamy. The GRider likes a stop there and we took one but she needed no encouragement to cut it short so that we could try to make it home.

I posted a photo on June 21 of the GRider posed with her bicycle in the corn field. The bicycle was irrelevant today as it wouldn't have been visible even if she had hauled down the corn row with her. It looks to me like that corn has grown nearly two feet in the last 8 days.

And as we know the portion of the growing season when the corn usually grows the fastest is the month of July, the time that I have dubbed the part of the year when you can HEAR the corn grow. If the corn does well in July the GRider is going to totally and completely disappear into that field.

At about 3 miles to go we were stopped at a stop light when the GRider commented that it had become hot. I estimated that the temperature had risen about 15 degrees in the time we had been out without any decrease in relative humidity. When we reached home we found that my guess was remarkably accurate.

Neither one of us felt particularly well, it was too hot to be riding. But by about 2pm we both felt OK and a good time was had (I think).

Voeckler is on the copy of the VeloNews Tour de France preview issue with his name on the cover and an inside article describing him as a dark horse contender. Apparently Schleck has a girl friend and has not improved his time trial ability. Some people think Evans can win again, some of the trendy thinkers are on Bradley Wiggins (I haven't heard either of them on this subject yet but I am willing to bet both Phil and Paul fall into that camp). Bradley has had a good spring, winning among others Paris-Nice and the Critérium du Dauphiné (previously known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré). The weasel Contador will not be riding this year. The race starts tomorrow in Belgium. The July 4 stage passes through Dieppe before finishing in Rouen. We will be in both of the those cities later on next month so I am looking forward to that stage from a strictly tourist perspective. By noon tomorrow someone will be in yellow. Cancellara?