It was kinda foggy yesterday morning and I walked out to see the over .5" of rain in the gauge. It dumped for a day then POOF the storm is gone and the sky cleared.

Then as I dropped the boys at school the fog had burned enough that it was just hugging the river and was quite shallow. Still made for a killer view.

Mid morning I was at a job bid which I got. I take down a tree and run a line for the hot tub power. The tree will come down tomorrow and the line will get run next week.

Once home I got ready and headed out for a ride. I knew I was going south but had no clue what route until I was riding. It was really cold in the shade to start with but the sun was nice and warm as I got out of the rive valley.

I ended up going up Dunn to Orchard Prairie which gave me some gravel experience with the road bike and it's slick tires. I just have to go a lot slower around corners with the road bike but it did fine on the gravel otherwise. The Dunn rd climb was 1.25 miles long and 523 ft elevation gain and is my biggest single climb so far. When I eventually go do the Mt Spokane ride up the main road it will be a 4k ft climb.

This put me over 200 miles for the month.

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On the ride I found 4 e-cig vapes thrown to the side of the road. I spent a little bit while I rested once home tearing out the batteries from them. I know have 10 batteries ranging from 2 to 3.7 Wh or about 600mah to 1ah at 3.7v. There is so much trash along the roads but this is the hazardous garbage that needs to be picked up. Disposable these fucking things ARE NOT despite the marketing. They are supposed to be turned in to an e-waste center since they have LiPos in each. I've heard that after a concert or "rave" the fields are littered with these things and people have scavenged full power walls from them...

In the afternoon we went to our couple's session which went well. We were home in time for Hive account@stryeyz and R to eat before he had wrestling practice. I found a model to hold my Garmin Edge and got it printed so it is not just lying on my desk between uses. I also love the AI search engines. Grok told me exactly how to pair my watch and the Edge so now I should get my heart rate metrics with my rides using the Edge.

Today I get the boys to school in a bit, get another ride in, sharpen the chains for the chainsaw and gather the tools I will need for felling the tree, I will pick R up after his STEM, Nancy is going to be cleaning more, PDC is on mid day, and I really need to get the 2nd tilling done so I can plant the garden rows....