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Halloween yard decor is a big thing around here. A really big thing. A where-do-you-store-all-this-stuff-year-round thing. But this little yard is my favorite this year. This sits beside a modest house of weathered wood cladding and freshly painted trim, the house’s footprint was cut out of a tree line and farmland. It sits right up on the road, at once out of place and perfectly expected.<\/p>\n

Beyond the over-dependence on plastic tchotchkes, this scene has one unique feature. You see it right in front of that standing skeleton.<\/p>\n

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That human-sized wrapped garbage bag. Wrapped in duct tape.<\/p>\n

Each time I pass by, that bag is in a different spot. Cracks me up, every time.<\/p>\n

The view from office is not bad.<\/p>\n

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A little kid plays under those trees. What a magical set of memories are getting made under those big full canopies.<\/p>\n

(Update:<\/strong> I took that photo at precisely the right time. Two days later, one of those trees has dropped half of its leaves already.)<\/p>\n

I went to campus to give a very brief presentation last night. On the way back home I think I saw the comet<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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I was driving, on the phone and it was pure timing, which explains the quality of that photo. <\/p>\n

It could be a plane, or a smear on the car’s glass for all you know. (I know it isn’t the latter.)<\/p>\n

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We went for a nice bike ride this afternoon. Well, the first few miles were nice. I swallowed a bug at about eight miles in, enjoyed a coughing and choking fit, got dropped and never really recovered.<\/p>\n

Before that, though, I took this photo. This is the one my lovely bride usually takes, but she’s much better at the composition than I am. <\/p>\n

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Here’s my question. We’re poking along at 20, 21 miles per hour here. That’s not nothing. How does she look so casual there.<\/p>\n

After I got dropped, I enjoyed the scenery.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever wondered what half a million dollars looks like on a farm? It looks like this combine.<\/p>\n

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Since I had a nice ride today, and it’s now a record-breaking October, and I’m ahead of my mileage projections, and we went to a cycling safety meeting tonight, I wore this shirt. <\/p>\n

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I made this a few years ago and it’s sat in my closet since then, because I oddly don’t want to wear the things I like, I guess? Worrying about wear-and-tear and stains probably means something. Anyway, it’s a cool shirt. I thought you should see it. I’m thinking maybe I should design all of my own t-shirts. <\/p>\n

Like I have more hangars in the closet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween yard decor is a big thing around here. A really big thing. A where-do-you-store-all-this-stuff-year-round thing. But this little yard is my favorite this year. This sits beside a modest house of weathered wood cladding and freshly painted trim, the house’s footprint was cut out of a tree line and farmland. It sits right up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,40,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-cycling","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573897538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897540,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897538\/revisions\/573897540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}