The climate at present is spring-tacular. Not solely is new stuff popping out of the bottom:
However the spring peepers are even peeping! I solely seen spring peepers for the primary time like final yr, which is unusual, since they’re loud as fuck and I don’t understand how I’ve managed to tune them out all this time. Right here’s what they sound like:
The video is 9 hours lengthy, however be sure to watch till the very finish, as a result of it’s value it.
Simply kidding:
Ha ha, made you watch.
Anyway, yesterday was wet however at present was heat and sunny, so there was a beguiling mist hanging over the hilltops that I couldn’t work out learn how to seize with my poor images expertise:
Simply spray your monitor with Pam or one thing and also you’ll get the thought.
I used to be additionally fairly happy with my selection of bicycle:
I all the time thought I’d be too outdated to experience a singlespeed mountain bike by this level in my life, however satirically it’s fairly the other, and it seems whenever you get outdated and snow piddling round on a tiny gear is juuust advantageous.
Plus, quickly I’m not going to have a lot selection, since my older son is formally sufficiently big to acceptable the Jones now:
Of all my bikes it’s the one he’s all the time most admired, and now that he can experience it he’s fairly excited. The truth is he’d like me to offer it to him completely, however in an effort to take possession he should first go a expertise take a look at that can contain efficiently negotiating a sequence of off-road obstacles with out placing a foot down. Ought to he full these Feats of Power, the Jones might be his:
On the subject of bikes or the rest, it’s extraordinarily necessary to place near-insurmountable obstacles in your kids’s paths, in any other case they may get the concept that it’s all proper to take pleasure in themselves, and also you wouldn’t need that.
Luckily, there’s little probability kids in New York will fall prey to the delusion that driving bikes is pleasing, due to the way in which we speak about it:
I do know it’s necessary to attract consideration to the “stuff that should change” a part of driving bikes, however I believe perhaps we’re dropping sight of the “driving a motorcycle is superior” half whereas we’re at it. The truth is I don’t bear in mind the final time I noticed somebody refer positively to driving a motorcycle in New York Metropolis, in order an experiment I went to the Govt Director of Transportation Options’s Twitter feed to see how far I had to return earlier than I discovered one thing that made driving a motorcycle sound engaging versus like a suicide mission. Finally I obtained uninterested in scrolling gave up, however I did discover this:
Lob is aware of there’s one million issues incorrect with automobiles and the way we use them, however that is like saying the dagger ear cuff is constructed for the only function of stabbing individuals to loss of life, when everyone knows its actual function is to deflect the truth that you’re too afraid to defy your dad and mom by truly getting your ear pierced:
The rivalry that barbed wire license plate frames are supposed to impale individuals is very absurd when you think about that so as to take action you’d must ram them with it, which goes to maim or kill them even in the event you’ve obtained a very benign license plate body equivalent to this:
If something, I’d be far more anxious about Cat Mother, who may very well be distracted by the 40 strays within the again she’s rounded up for spaying and neutering.
Anyway, it’s not that I facet with the car-addled individuals over the advocates, it’s simply that individuals are so car-addled it takes a pointy instrument to chop by the brainwashing, and in the event you as an alternative attempt to go at it with a plastic sport like claiming novelty license plate frames are designed to kill individuals it solely reinforces their notion that anybody whose crucial of automobiles is loopy.
Although in the event that they ever attempt to make us put license plates on our bicycles we will get barbed wire license plate frames too!
