Not Much to Report Post Christmas

Greetings Post Christmas Earthlings!  How was your chosen observation of your chosen holiday?  Ours was successful, we bought a veeeeeeery expensive whole chicken at Sprouts, spatchcocked it, and grilled it.  It's good chicken, it has a very clean taste, unlike some supermarket chains' products.  So that made three dinners and a lunch.  Not cooking is good.

There was a ride on Christmas day.  It was a cold ride, undershirts, tights, arm warmers, jackets, head socks and glove liners were involved.  Actually, I wore my long sleeved slightly fleeced jersey because I hate arm warmers because they won't stay up, and they were a pleasant alternative.  That ride was from the house, up to Christopher Columbus park. 

Yesterday we had planned to ride from the ball fields up on Camino del Cierro.  We discovered that the road in is barricaded, and is in the process of being removed.  If you refer back to the December 18 post, and scroll down, there is a photo of the desert behind the ball fields parking lot that had recently been bladed.  Our first thought was that what we thought was new housing was going to subsume the park, but this is not the case.  They are adding new places for the playing of softball.  It's going to be big.  I'm still not clear on why they had to dig up the road in.  The restrooms are still open, accessible from the bike trail, so it's not a complete loss.  We can park a Christopher Columbus which is a mile south.  Here is the site of the new fields being built.

We rode north to check on the sewer pipe project that has closed the northern part of the trail system.  Their website says it will complete at the end of 2023.  Somehow, I do not think this will be the case.

If you're wondering about our insistence on riding bike paths, it's because we're old.  Getting hit now would be the end of us.  When you're hurt in your old age, you're never the same.  Plus, the hospitals are over run with Covid, flu and RSV and we do not want to have to be taken to one via ambulance.  The days of us riding on the road with traffic are officially over.

Today we went to Lowes to buy an inexpensive garden hose.  We need to flush the hot water heater, and a hose is required to move it out to the street.  The one left by the previous owner is rotten, which suggests that it may have been awhile since flushing happened.  On the way home we saw this car.  It's a Plymouth Barracuda.  They're pretty cars, nice lines.  Being next to one makes me grateful for emissions controls.  Their exhaust is just bad.

There were interesting clouds later on.

I will be glad when the holidays are over.  We need to go to Costco, and the grocery store, and I do not want to do these things until people go back to work.  I will also be happy when our neighbors quit firing their guns in the air and shooting off fireworks.  They're making it difficult to sleep.  See?  I am officially old.