{"id":573896948,"date":"2024-05-28T21:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896948"},"modified":"2024-05-30T03:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:12:41","slug":"medium-ride-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/05\/28\/medium-ride-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium ride day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the day. I did my first swim of the year. It was just 500 yards, which is not even a warmup. It was simply a test to see what part of me would complain first. And the answer was: everything.<\/p>\n

Then we pulled up some flowerbed liner and installed some new one. An experiment! A no-going-back experiment!<\/p>\n

There’s no going back because I took the old liners to the inconvenience center with a few bags of garbage, a couple of boxes and a giant tub full of recycling. That, somehow, takes about an hour, from start to finish. But it was a warm and beautiful and sunny afternoon. <\/p>\n

When I got back home I discovered an iris I didn’t know we had. <\/p>\n

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It’s flourishing next to this peony.<\/p>\n

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And not far away from this beautiful little rose bush. <\/p>\n

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All of which live under the peach tree. <\/p>\n

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And that looks like another great crop coming later this summer. Which only serves to make me want some peaches, which is good, because we have a lot still in the freezer from last summer!<\/p>\n

It is a lot of fun to watch all of these things grow and flourish. <\/p>\n

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In the early evening I set out for a bike ride, all on familiar roads, but some of them in an unusual order. I love this little tree tunnel. <\/p>\n

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You only go about three-tenths of a mile under this verdant canopy, but it is a magical stretch of road nonetheless. It is the stuff of childhood fantasy, idle imagination and endless wonder. You just go faster and faster in there. <\/p>\n

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Also it has to be three or four degrees cooler in there than a stretch of road exposed to the sun. It was a mild 84 today, though, so that wasn’t the biggest concern.<\/p>\n

I met some nice horses near the end of my ride.<\/p>\n

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This pair live nearby, but they were a bit more shy and I had no sugar cubes with which to win them over.<\/p>\n

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It was intended to be a 40-mile ride, but the map said it’d be 42 miles by the time I got home. In actuality, it was 45 miles when I got back. It was a fine ride. <\/p>\n

After dinner, I went out to water some plants, and check on this little light. We have a tiny little structure that holds a few gardening tools next to the greenhouse, and I am enamored with the light fixture on top of it. It feels like a full size miniature, if there’s such a thing.<\/p>\n

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Plus, it comes in handy for late night summertime projects. So I just need to come up with some late night summertime projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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