{"id":573898136,"date":"2025-07-10T20:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898136"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:11:26","slug":"the-middle-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/07\/10\/the-middle-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The middle of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the middle of summer, the sort where you convince yourself that the actual middle is next week. This is the same argument I made with myself last week. <\/p>\n

Guess what I’ll be doing next week. <\/p>\n

On today’s bike ride I decided to take a photo in a particular place, and then forgot about that entirely. I remembered it three or four miles later and realized, I’ve probably never taken a photo of this spot before.<\/em><\/p>\n

So here you go, venturing into the deep dark forest. <\/p>\n

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You’re in the shade of the tree canopy for about 35 seconds before you’re staring back into the sun again. <\/p>\n

I think I’m going to try something different. I’m going to take tomorrow off, and ride this same route on Saturday. Maybe I’ll go faster with a day off. <\/p>\n

Watch, that will work, and then I’ll have to reconfigure all of my ride plans. Of course, those intricately laid plans currently consist of, “How hot is it?”<\/p>\n

I went outside this evening and it was 79 with 90 percent humidity. I’m not sure if plants even need watering under those conditions. (The weeds don’t!) Then I made the mistake of looking at tomorrow’s weather. Tomorrow’s forecast in no way played into the weekend bike experiment. Also, look how bright that moon is. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, back to doing productive stuff. I am approaching the stage of class planning where I wonder if I have bitten off more than I can chew. <\/p>\n

Remember, designing new classes is fun! Remember that so you can remind me of that sometime in the next month-and-a-half. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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