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I’m at BWI waiting for Mrs Zs flight to arrive. Due at 4:45. 🥰 I’ve missed her terribly this week. After that I’ll take her to get some dinner then head home. Hopefully I’ll get some sleep tonight. tomorrow is open. Maybe some yard work or a hike. Sunday meeting a friend for breakfast.

Not sure how other people are like, but here is my tendency: *True zoning out for me, is literally becoming so absorbed in executing colours/shapes properly that I have actually spelled a word wrong, while doing hand calligraphy because I fell in love with letter shapes. If that makes any sense. OR my paintbrush with couple flicks of paint strokes, I've executed the perfect shadow-light combination in a corner of a painting. It's thrilling when latter happens. *For blogging, usually a vague idea or a couple words floats around back of brain for wks. or months. Or I get inspired after looking at a few photos I've taken. Several days of incubation in head. Then I start to write lst few sentences OR I start off with a draft blog title. Usually title gets modified near end. But it's to get some word concepts pulled out and shaped like a weaver's yarn for spinning the entire post. Sometimes I jockey between selecting photos and writing the post. Or I have all my selected photos ready..and then write. It depends which river flow direction I choose. 1 post may be edited 10 or 25 times for wordsmithing. Wordpress software tracks the version. (though doesn't keep version 2 out of ie. 15). As a teen I did write poetry..and have won some teen contests. I don't crash. I just finish eventually and satisfied or if done really well, happy the piece is done. I suspect I will struggle a bit with painting because am awfully rusty now.

Aeration.

Not yet. I wanted to enjoy my visit to the Jungle. We are taking him to dinner somewhere later.

Of course l I was confused by the "Ride on Orlando" Nothing to see here Move along

Did you bring LAJ on an outing?

Cincinnati

The back story isn’t just the scale of the store but the fact that the guy who started it all is basically printing money every day. Not from sales at the store, but rental income from the various stores that are on his land. There are at least 20 to 30 tenants paying him $1,000 to $4,000 a month. He also has a few event centers that he rents out as well. I’ve met him before; he comes across as an eccentric but I envy his creativity.

You're in Orlando?

I might have placed one word here but I've seen how well that worked so far. I'm going to assume from the thread title that you hate the Hey so much that in your mind it's a hanging offence. Maybe?

@Longjohn and I have posted about this place before but here’s a brief video. There are longer ones on YouTube if you want to go down a rabbit hole. We stopped there today for some things as it’s just a mile from where we are staying and across the street from where LAJ is living. We bought the puppies a new toy that they are loving.

Our new home gets dozens of them. Too bad that it wasn't a sunny day when I took this photo. No hummingbirds just yet.

Some photos. One of the steep climbs where folks would help others get to the top: Rolling past the Iwo Jima memorial: I rode with her quite a few times. She dug deep in the climbs. You might recognize him from the movie Battleship And a few of the other types of recumbents. The guy in red would FLY down hills hoping for some momentum on the way back up. I chatted with this woman about her "ugly" bike - an older Univega steel triple with a very tight cassette. I man-splained she could definitely go with a wider cassette. Boxed in on a climb as those two guys were well ahead of me until they started slowing and GCN guy started weaving.

Those must be Continental Gatorskin tires.

Green tea from the hotel beverage bar. Cold & dry in Vegas & my throat is scratchy…

Coffee

I like this chock better.

I wish that my toenails looked that good.

What?

Got me.

Unfortunately, my A1C is up into the prediabetes range. Therefore, I've switched to low carb beers like Michelob Ultra. I've made other changes as well.

Bottled water