Greenhil

Not including a few stationary rides, Nov. 11. Kudos to those of you riding in snow. These are my snow wheels:

I use earbuds in the gym. They discourage people from talking to me.

Don’t think the Browns are smart enough to pull that off. Maybe Belichick could, though. I say that with affection as a Patriots fan.

Wreckless Eric’s wife (Mrs. Wreckless Eric?) is musician Amy Rigby, who writes some great stuff. She was playing Whole Wide World in her shows when they first met. They sound good together on this tune. You can never have too much farfisa organ.

Those kinds of drinks common in the Middle East and actually pretty good IMHO. you can see the Arabic writing on the bottle. I assume “soda” is a misnomer and that it’s not actually carbonated. They’re the consistency of buttermilk, not yogurt as we know it. I guess there’s no accounting for cultural differences. To quote Tolstoy, “The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry.”

Piloti Shoes get good reviews. I drive a Passport, which probably makes me worse than a Pilot owner…

I’ve heard that a small camper is just a gateway drug to a bigger one, but it’s not like I have a growing family - and the thing has all the amenities (heat, air conditioning, bathroom, shower, kitchen, TV, stereo). It even had a microwave, which we don’t have in our house! So I’m not feeling any camper envy. So far.

Bought a small (15’) camper at he beginning of the year. Vowed to not let it become an expensive lawn ornament and then sell it because we didn’t use it. Ended up taking it out to CO, down to the Carolinas and around the Northeast, biking all the way. Probably spent about 50 nights in it, in all. We also stayed in it when the kids and grandkids overran the house.

My riding total for the year is 2,228 miles, which is pretty close to my yearly average. I know you’re not tracking climbing, but I have to have something to brag about: 178,000 feet. Running total is 172 miles, almost all of it on a treadmill at the gym. Fun times. The mileage is below average for me. I usually don’t keep track of walking, hiking and skiing. I assume you mean cross-country skiing? Downhill skiing mileage would be an odd thing to measure.

Those places are on the other side of the mountains from me, but I often drive over there and ride, especially in the spring when it’s still mud season in my area. I love the quiet paved farm roads south of Burlington along Lake Champlain. I’ve ridden around Dunmore on a couple of occasions, too. As a gravel rider (and for other reasons), I feel fortunate to live in Vermont.

I’m right in the geographic center, near the town of Randolph.

I’ve been trying to figure out which size generator would work for this. Pellet stove (which wants an inverter generator), freezer, fridge and submersible well pump are the main things I’d like to run. Any idea what the starting and running watts are for your pump? Mine is so old I can’t tell. Is the 5.5 KW starting or running watts? Thanks.

Same here - a sheetrock filter bag that seems to work. I also mask up when I clean the stove. That ash is very fine.

We have a Harmon pellet stove. I think it has three fans - to push the heat out, ignite the pellets and create the draft. It works great (-1 and windy as all get out this morning). But when the power goes out, we still have a wood stove as back up. Thinking about a generator - mainly for the freezer in long outages. Friends with expensive, full-house generator installations are tying to talk me into doing that. “You’re not getting any younger,” is the phrase they keep using.

A couple of years ago we had a small addition built and to lay the foundation for it they dug a big hole, so we simply cut a door in the existing foundation and created a space with a gravel floor under the addition. It can be closed off from the rest of the cellar. We have onions, garlic and squash from the garden stored down there. Seems to work like a root cellar. I have some weights down there so I use it as a very primitive home gym in the winter to exercise the muscle or two thst I still have.