And so the mowing continues. Yesterday morning after getting the boys to school I kept pushing the spinny thing around the yard hacking the weeds and grasses down.

Finished off the area between the creek, studio, and house before the grasses were to thick around the shaft of the hub and I called it good. I have been hard on the thing over the years and need to get a new hub for it and covers. Still more mowing to do this morning before the heat sets in.

I decided to go out for a ride. More for my head than anything I think. I rode to Deer Park... Which just a few months ago seemed like a huge distance and out of reach for me... Now it is easy. Rode east and to Riverside then down the 2. I had seen the black clip on the side of the road numerous times so went to ride past it and pick it up.

Was really just out for some miles and trying to keep it solidly zone 2. I really surprised myself with the high gearing I am able to use on climbs now!

THIS BOULDER!!!! I have been staring at it for YEARS as an AMAZING climbing boulder. It is overhanging, shaded at all times, standing all by itself thanks to the Great Floods, but is on private property.

I have stopped to check it out before but really need to see about asking the land owners if it would be possible to do some bouldering or climbing on it. It's all of 4 miles from the house...

MORE DATA! I am now running the MyBikeTraffic app on my Edge 540 which gives me a live display of the speed of approaching vehicles, the distance from me, and the vehicle count.

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My Garmin uploads it when the activity is done and the site gives me a map showing where exactly all the vehicles passed by me on my route. They even show the ones that are going over 65mph as a blue dot instead of the green dots. I now have the data field in my display to see more easily as I ride.

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I got home to see the new canopy cover and new canopy had arrived so I got the new cover installed on the old frame and setup the new canopy before putting them both back in their cases.

THANK GOD I save instructions. The R/O was leaking from the base so I had turned it off until I could deal with it. In the "help" section of the manual it gave me the exact issue I was having so I popped the drain line free of the base and with a good blow on the end cleared the line into the sink drain line and the thing works like normal now.

Weeded the leeks row, the leeks that overwintered by the greenhouse. The things are rather huge and the weeds were really thick. Got a full tub from the row.

I found 7 volunteer potatoes in the garlic rows. Interesting to me is there are a pair per garlic row and not all in one row. All towards the bottom of the rows so I must have missed a few last year in digging.

Boys got home from school, worked on the mower, then got dinner ready. After a well needed shower I was in bed early.

Today is the warm day of the week before it cools off again. Boys to school, weekly session this morning, I will get the last of the mowing done, do more weeding, cleaning, then figure out dinner this evening.