Another Saturday nite
and I’m sleepy. For various reasons, I’ve only been getting 5-6 hours of sleep a night and I think it’s catching up with me.
Despite that, I decided I really needed to get outdoors today so I rode my bike for the first time in about three weeks.
I debated whether to go for an a.m. or p.m. ride, with mornings always the preference. After watching the weather, I decided and headed out at about 8:30 a.m. The forecast said cloudy this morning, but a cold front will be coming through and will bring the sun but dropping temps.
I did a terrible job picking out layers to wear. Although what I wore would be deemed warm, it wasn’t windproof. I had forgotten windproof is as important as warm.
I headed out on the world famous llama farm route. Yes, the llamas were out. When I sung out, “Hello, Llamas” as I am apt to do, I startled one and he took off running. I felt kinda bad for that. Elsewhere I saw two cute little baby goats hopping around their mama.
This may be the only ride I’ve ever done where I tried not to go faster. This causes wind which leads to cold.
Despite what the weather people said, the sun burst forth at about the half-way point. I like me some winter sunshine. But as I was heading home, I could feel the wind picking up out of the northwest. Brr.
When I got home, I wanted a hot drink. So I decided to stir some chocolate protein powder into some skim milk and nuke it in the microwave. Do not try this at home. All of the powder gathered up in a strange floating island solid lump. I didn’t drink it. It was weird.
BTW, I tried a nice simple recipe for supper, peppered steak with a pan sauce from red wine. Very good stuff. I also made some roasted sweet potato fries and some grape tomatoes with a vinaigrette.
A good day.
