Month: March 2012

I guess it’s spring. The weather was surprisingly awesome this weekend. Highs in the low 80’s, almost no wind, cloudy and cool Saturday morning and then clear. I’ve been riding my bike more to prepare for the MS150 in April and the nice weather was a welcome change. I rode 100.5 miles over the weekend. Just under 68 miles on Saturday starting from home, up Reagan to 29, down into town all the way to the office and then back home. Then today just over 32 miles from home to Parmer, out to 3405 and back. I ran into Rusty doing his training out that way as well. I have a little sun burn just at the cuff where my shorts were from Saturday because I didn’t quite get enough sunscreen there but other than that I’ve survived and I also ate all the things so that’s nice. This evening, while cooking dinner, I noticed that my cherry tree is blooming. I’m pretty surprised because this was the most pathetic winter ever but we’ve been getting rain and I guess it wants water more than it cares about the supposed 1400 hours below 40 degrees it’s supposed to need to make flowers. The maple also looks good and it has a ton of the little seeds with sails on it too which is cool. The rest of the yard is a wreck but that’s to be expected after last year’s 9 month summer. Hopefully we’ll keep getting rain and we won’t have to worry about the entire state being on fire again this year. Fingers crossed.