An excellent book.

If branches fall in your yard, you pick them up, tie them up, and carry them to the curb for pickup. Or, if you're total white trash, just throw it over the fence for the neighbors to deal with.

First time growing rutabagas. Succession planted in the garlic bed. #vegetablegardening

Anthony Fauci and Rand Paul. One of these people has obvious con man hair.

It was a good day to ride some forty-four year old steel. Albany, New York, USA.

I listened to this for five minutes and it made my brain sick.

Albany, New York. Orange sky, orange sun from wildfires in Ontario. Our brothers and sisters upwind must be suffering.

The Nielsen House, Kosciuszko Memorial, and the Monument to the Unknown American Dead, Saratoga Battlefield National Historical Park.

At the Battles of Saratoga, General Benedict Arnold served with near-reckless heroism, and was desperately wounded in the leg. He went on to become the most despicable turncoat of his age. An 1887 monument to his military genius at Saratoga celebrates his wounded leg, but does not mention his name.

David Clayton Thomas. What a voice.

Bread just out of the oven, and a crock pot of red beans 'n rice. #Sourdough #breadsky

Here's a picture of my full-rotary FrankenVice. #flytying

Remember when Obama predicted what a Trump White House would look like? Not even close.

Benjamin Warner (1757-1846) bequeathed his knapsack to his son thusly: “This Napsack I caryd Through the War of the Revolution to achieve the American Independence....and whilst one shred of it shall remain never surrender you libertys to a foren envador or an aspiring demegog." NO KINGS

Now we talkin' turkey. #Sourdough #Breadsky

The indoor temp is about 1,000° Fahrenheit, so yeah, why not bake some bread? #Sourdough #Breadsky

Remember her like this.

Grunting, whistling swine.

I wish every day was bread day. #Sourdough #Breadsky

May, 1864, Belle Plain. Encampment of 1st Massachusetts and 2nd New York Heavy Artillery units. Daniel White is somewhere in this photo. Three weeks later, he was shot through the left hand before Petersburg.

At the border between exceeds expectations and WTF. #Sourdough #breadsky

Part of me wants to be fully on top of this, but after thinking about it, I just don't deserve it.

After mixing everything, I slap-n-fold for 5 or 6 minutes to this song in my head: "Somewhere out on that horizon Far away from the neon lights..." Looking for something of the same vintage, same beat, more uplifting. #Sourdough #breadsky

Jackass.

I'm reading some Walt Whitman: his civil war poetry and notes about his time as a volunteer hospital assistant. Our fathers left us clear paths to follow. Explicit instructions. Yet we are blind. "I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket, And buried him where he fell."

My Trek 311 upgraded with bar-end friction shifters and aero hoods.

A reminder, that it's critical to believe in heroes.