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This Pilated Woodpecker has been responsible for a few trees in the area going down. That means that the tree was probably already in trouble cause he's hunting insects. He's made some holes big enough to put your arm through. We caught this picture just after dawn this morning.

Well yeah, this ugly mug is the only one God gave me...

I don't know about your town, but around here you can get arrested for waving your dipstick around in public like that.

Do you add oil every time you mow or just check it?

... cycling miles so far this year in the forum exercise totals thread! Thanks to all taking the time to post their miles.

I just watched my wife’s memorial service again. I didn’t know it was still up. What a celebration of her life that was. Memories, memories, memories. 🥰😍💌❤️💓💓💞💖💘💕.

Baked boneless, skinless, tasteless chicken with Stonemill salt free seasoning blend, steamed carrots, and steamed peas.

Sunday I made meatloaf. Yesterday I made sourdough sandwich bread. I decided to combine the two for lunch and made a grilled meatloaf sandwich with pepper Jack cheese. What you got?

I use one of these for my coffee every day. If I left it somewhere in the house I don’t go looking for it. I just get out another one. I’ll eventually find it and return it to the kitchen.

Or hydro fluid. If I know him, he probably has a spreadsheet documenting every oil change, tire pressure and hydraulic oil level on each tractor and truck or equipment that he owns.

Pileated is known by the raised red feathers on the head.

I use a contigo travel mug for iced tea or seltzer, but I found it kept the hot tea too hot and it was actually hard to drink. So I use a ceramic mug for tea - one from shutterfly with a picture of a painting a friend did of my parents old back yard. The painting included their favorite garden things including two stray cats who eventually became house cats, cardinals in the bird bath, the little stone steps and blooming azaleas and day lilies.

yes Sometime I even wash it...

It's crawling towards your house right now looking for revenge.

I don't recall the last photo, but here's a photo of me with my first car...

I spend the majority of my work life trying to get potassium and extra fluid out of people that shouldn't eat it as much.

37 miles with WoJSTL on the tandem. Her longest ride this year.

Turned out really good. Wife and I split a small loaf with dinner.

I check the oil every time I cut grass.

It matches my old hat

Yes, the hole changes. it is not uncommon with interference fit parts to cool one part and heat the other to get them to go together easily and when they return to normal temp, they are tightly fitted.

I use one that RO made me at a pottery-painting place a few years back. I will be crushed if I ever break it.

Possum Stew – Road Kill Recipes (deadfood.com)

I used a new (to me) four loaf ceramic loaf pan from Pampered Chef and a usual loaf pan.

Hey, it has oil!

1465.7 are mine

that's why he doesn't

I posted three of them.

When you roll up to the field (especially with a pitcher like Emmy) then your softball wagon game had better be strong. 1. 2 good chairs. The rocker kind, none of that cheap Wall-Mart bag chair crap. 2. Name brand cooler. Yeti, Rtic. Bonus points for Grizzly or Pelican. No igloo bullshit. 3. The little portable heater if under 50 degrees. 4. The "Dad glove" if your a pitcher dad and might have to warm up a pitcher in a pinch. Mizuno or Rawlins at least. And you had better have this shit organized and looking good. It's a reflection on your team.

I think silver or natural finish aluminum wheels would have looked sharper than the black ones.

come clean some blood with me.

I was driving on a majorish road with a bike lane on the shoulder. Cyclist passes & goes over a rough railroad crossing. I've done that hii/RR crossing 100's of times. You really need to unload (stand up a little) while crossing it. About a 1/4 mile down the road he's got the rear wheel off & pulling out the tube. Pinch flat! The best kind of flat...someone elses's

My plan is to be a big contributer.

Isabella Rosalini

I don’t eat raw chicken. That Stonemill seasoning is really good, I added a little Tobasco.

All of those vegetables that old#7 listed are my favorites.

38 miles today, 6 miles to work, 32 miles on the way home. Perfect riding temperature today for me. (68F)

I rode my mountain bike the first time I did DC-Pittsburgh. I had a spare tube that had been in my seat bag for years so I stopped at my LBS before I went and bought a new tube. The owner of the shop showed me a trick, he used a ziplock bag and put some baby powder in it. He took the new tube out of the box and put it in the bag with the powder. He said that will keep the tube protected and easy to use. i took Amtrak to DC and started my journey. I did the trip in five days, on the fifth day I came to a place where they had dug a ditch across the trail and filled it in with real coarse crushed limestone. As I rode across the ditch I heard my tire pop. One of those large sharp pieces of limestone had cut my rear tire about a one inch cut. I removed my panniers and back wheel. Took the tire off and looked at the cut. I carried duck tape wrapped around one of my water bottles so I figured I would boot the tire with a dollar bill and duck tape. Checked my wallet and the smallest bill I had was a $5. Used that, got out the new tube in the baggie with the baby powder and discovered he had sold me a 20” tube. I took a look at the old tube. Same one inch cut as the tire. I got out my patch kit and found it contained a bunch of little patches and one big rectangular patch about three inches long. I used that and put everything back together. I had twenty miles to go to get to where my ride was going to meet me and I had already called them before my flat. Five miles later I came to a bike shop, I didn’t want to take the time to change the tire and tube but if my repair didn’t hold I would wish I had. I stopped and bought a tire and tube and strapped it on top of my bags. I didn’t need it, my repair held up the last 20 miles.

Anne Hathaway.

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, bananas, beets, avocados, salmon, lima beans, swiss chard, acorn squash, etc. all have good amounts of potassium. Eat better, feel better.

I was sitting on the uphill side of a tiny road carved into a hillside, a flat is never fun but this was a nice spot. I was getting a break from the hill, and enjoying the sunshine, the hole was easy to find and I was putting on the patch. Heard a commotion in the woods above me and watched as two woodchucks came rolling down the hill, one latched on to the others ass, tightly, teeth sunk way in. The one getting bit was squealing like a pig with a woodchuck clamped to it's ass. They rolled over the drop off to the road, fell about 4 feet and landed with an audible thud. Across the road and down the hill into the woods, both squealing now. I don't know who did what but the one with the teeth was pissed about something that I bet the one with the sore ass regretted.

^^^ I said grandfather, not great grandfather...

Didn't Steinbeck cover this in his novel, "Canny Row"?

I got a flat on my second ride here in CA from a staple on the road shoulder It's not so bad doing a tube change when you have the time and tools. I get stung relatively often - maybe every other year - on a ride. I no longer ride with an unzipped jersey as yellowjackets seem to love getting trapped in my jersey and sting away! Sometimes they get me on my thigh as well. They don't bother me too much after the initial OUCH.

I like Mondays. All the amateur retirees go back to work and the stores are much less crowded.