Hard-pack sand roads don't have a lot of automobile traffic. Kinda rough on the bike, but I'm riding a mid-nineties Trek I got at a yard sale. Nice enough for the money, for sure. Heavy chain and cheap cassette. The 850, and it had been owner rebuilt, so a few things were a little less than I would have liked. Wheels might have been set without a cone wrench. Or simply without mechanic's feel. Same for the headset, but it came out okay without having a detent. Pedal bearing covers were missing. Um.
Four miles of riding on sand and muck.
From time to time we can feel a vibration pass through the house. It lasts for several minutes, and it's not worrisome. Nearby construction site is compacting soil for several three-story apartment buildings. These will be for the work-staff at an exclusive gated community on the Island. The community will run shuttle busses.
For now, run-off is an issue. We expect that the plan includes drains to channel water into the system that sends it into a canal and then into the river. - You can see the roller/compactor in the pic of machines. And on the other machine a blue drill for busting up rock. The area is called Rockridge for a reason.
Ellen and I had walked to the site to see what was doing. And we took a dog. Included in our walk, checking out what is doing at buildings that house a car collection. A second structure has just been completed, and we were pleasantly surprised that the architect and builder had kept old trees as much as possible. Also, many of the bromeliads remained.
These buildings are diagonally across the street from the apartments.
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A sudden, and quite unexpected, late-season bout of me vs flu. And let's not leave Ellen out of it. And outside day after day of rain. A unstable weather over Florida and on and off system of something above the Gulf. Birdbath is full.
Later in the day I made fried chicken & basmati rice and collard greens with bacon.
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Modern lenses with no moving parts sticking out of the back. Kinda getting used to it. Everything flies by wire now.
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Equivalent. A 14mm Lumix and 28mm Pentax SMC. Sorta surprised, the K-mount came out in 1975. Why does it not seem so long ago?
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Meanwhile, the rains came. And very probably will return today. Off and on for the remainder of this week is forecast.
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A member in good standing now of the Academy of Model Aeronautics (home: Muncie, Indiana) and of Quiet Birds park flyers of Vero Beach. That's Tom flying one of his foam designs. He's a retired aero engineer.
My plan is RTF: ready to fly. Because I know nothing about modern anything for these airplanes. And foam b/c it's fairly easy to repair.
Steven is the hot stick in these parts. He's Tom's grandson. You know that Steven has the feel for a new airplane when he flips it inverted and makes low passes. Which he did with Bob's airplane here the third time around.
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