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TrentonMakes

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  1. TrentonMakes

    TIB

    exactly. I get a lot of good thinking done when I'm out there (and I'm getting some exercise). What I do hate is lawnmower issues. Since I splurged on a 36" commercial walk-behind a few years ago I've been happy. 15hp Kohler with 5 speeds - I'm almost jogging if I run it in 5th. It cuts about a full hour off the entire job compared to the 30" push mower we had. For home use it should last a damn long time. I don't have a mulching cover though and those grass particles go everywhere. I always spend the next day sneezing.
  2. I suspect you are right - that's why I mentioned the "mental" part. Once my legs really start feeling it, and I get back into our area, the pull toward home gets almost too strong to resist. I didn't ride at all since last Sunday - I know a full week off the bike didn't help. Of course it would be a lot easier to reach 63 if I didn't insist on climbing all these hills all the time.
  3. Another day out in the Sourland Mountain area - I got a book out of the library about the area and now I can keep an eye out for some of the landmarks. I feel like I'd like to live up there - but I know during snowstorms the power goes out for a week at a time (because there are so few people up there). And I'd probably never go outside at night for fear of a bear carrying me off. I've been "suburbanized"... Bridge over the Raritan River at Neshanic Station... they don't make them like this anymore. Nice scene just to the south of the white bridge - the trestle is still there but the railroad is defunct (the bridge over River Road is no more). The mill building appears to be residential - 4 stories; I assume it's some sort of apartments. And I suppose I could use some "holding camera straight" lessons. This is the South Branch School House - the plaque says built in 1874. I peeked inside the window at the right, with the curtain open, and was startled to see a mannequin looking back at me. I felt like I might have been on a hidden camera show. and my favorite, the Mount Zion Methodist Church. A church was built here in 1843; this structure dates to 1880 according to the book. With the stone it looks a lot like the Neshanic Church I posted a photo of a few weeks ago. I rode by this twice, out and back... the Sunday morning service was in process on the way out. I counted six cars parked adjacent. "Zion" was never more than a dot on the map - it was once a little village, but today it's just a couple intersections and a scattering of homes. On the way back home I stopped to take this picture and a woman in the parking lot said hi - I told her I thought it was beautiful here and she invited me to come to a service. I would have gone into the building to see what it looked like (since the door was open) but I felt like I was in no condition to venture into a place of worship. I could fill a thread just with photos of all the little old churches scattered around this area - every little hamlet had one (almost all Methodist) and many of the buildings are still standing even if they're not still active. And the riding is still working, along with managing my diet - I weighed in at 260 this morning.
  4. 56.5 miles, 14.7 mph, 2700 climbing feet. This was my third 56-mile ride this year - the third time this year I finished 7 miles short of 63 which would be a new one-day record. Nothing left in the tank - though I expect that's all mental. Good ride though - no regrets.
  5. Have the Red Sox retired #2?
  6. I agree 100%. An inexpensive, high-protein, high-fiber addition that soaks up strong flavors? A no-brainer. Black beans and chick peas both usually go in ours. Not that anyone cares what someone from NJ thinks about chili.
  7. TrentonMakes

    Pigs...

    Wrap it in prosciutto.
  8. What's so funny about his hift ending?
  9. Yes, if I had ten fresh figs I doubt they'd last long enough for me to even get the cheese and prosciutto out of the fridge (as good as that option sounds).
  10. The KHS this year was my first brand-new bike purchase since the Rockhopper - 15 years. I pieced together the old Panasonic roadie on an ebay frame in 2003 or so. Very little of that bike was brand new.
  11. Seriously - I didn't even know that 27.5" was a thing.
  12. It sounds like the worst part about that story is that you likely have no way of ever finding out what happened.
  13. I usually stop on the way home from work, so I'm already "business casual". I probably wouldn't dress up otherwise.
  14. Nope - I firmly believe that there is no such thing as objectively bad music. Everyone responds to it differently and everyone looks for different things in a piece of music. But I think as long as someone out there (including its composer) likes a piece of music - and even if I personally hate it - that doesn't make it "bad". although I'm no Skrillex fan, to be sure.
  15. Growing up in upstate NY we lived on about ten acres which were bounded on the south by a creek (the Poestenkill - in case TK ever comes back ). Along the north bank of the creek, a little ways downstream from a spillway some previous owner had built, was a big concave boulder, set low but still high enough to stay dry most of the time. I used to sit in that bowl-shaped depression - there was another rock a little ways out that I could put my feet on. Once in a while I brought a notebook and a pencil and worked on an assignment, which led to me dubbing it "Homework Rock". Sitting on that rock, in the afternoon light after school, listening to the creek go by...... so peaceful. Sure, it was a rock, but it fit me well - it was comfortable. We moved away 22 years ago but I still remember so much of that place, so well. I miss the whole place, but that rock will always be special.
  16. yeah, they're cute little guys. The KHS came with Maxxis tires but they're not so knobby.
  17. I don't think so, aside from my kids. And it's really only my daughter who's expressed an interest in a ride of substantial length - we did 14 miles on the towpath one day. (I've grown to enjoy climbing but she's not a fan. ) Since she's 12, she may soon lose interest in riding (or doing anything) with Dad. But I sure hope not.
  18. I think I made two posts with a puppet on the LF, back in the days of HC points, Mango Monkey and Wrigley's bike pron.
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