It is proving to be a banner year for pine cone production. Several different species on our land are dropping them in large quantities. I needed to do some raking before mowing the front lawn yesterday.

I completed all of the grass cutting and some of the fence line trimming when time ran out on home chores yesterday, and I needed to start packing all my biking and camping gear. Six, possibly seven, of us who met on the annual “Jaunt with Jim” (Klobuchar) bike trips years ago are meeting today in Onalaska, WI, for a 4-day adventure of our own on the trails of the Sparta/Elroy region.

As a result, my posts for tomorrow and over the weekend will be created on the touchscreen surface of my phone. Maybe I can force myself to use a little more brevity than is typical for my habits.

Partly due to my clumsy touch and partly to my lack of familiarity with using a smartphone to create posts in WordPress, it is never certain that the result will align with my intentions. The next three days will be an adventure in posting for me, while I am on a cycling adventure with friends and tenting on the hard ground.

If I am successful in keeping my phone sufficiently charged, you can expect to find daily reports from the trail with a few snapshots of the scenery we encounter.

May the weather gods be kind to us.

Oh, and…

Happy Birthday today, Cyndie!

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