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There’s good pathways to meander too. A friend that lives there recently posted a sort of occasional sponsored ride called Square to Square IIRC. Runs from town square in Fayetteville to Bentonville about 30-35 mi on the pathway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

None of the dozens of Ash trees in my hood look healthy. They’re all 35+ y.o. Builder plants and many like my front one have already been removed years ago. One of the two remaining in my back yard has about 30% of its leaves. The other maybe 10%. Sucks because they usually shade 2/3 of my backyard right along the greenbelt. We bought the place because of the shady open yard on a greenbelt. Won’t be the same for a decade if we have to drop them. Several down the street including my neighbors that partially shades my house are still leafless. Just going to wait it out at this point. Mine can’t hit any houses and at worst may take out other neighbors shitty fence that needs replacing 5 years ago. [emoji849] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Rewatched Lords of Dogtown a couple of weeks ago, then when I turned on the Redbull tv app to watch a mtb race Bones Brigade popped up. Hadn’t seen that one in years so had to rewatch it too. Amazing the evolution of skateboarding from those two groups of kids a decade apart.

They only did the DX with manual in the early years like 03/04 and they were beyond bare bones like no AC!!! I had an 06 LX AWD that got totaled by APD. Got $1500 less than I paid for it with 40k mi then got the 08 EX AWD and drove the shit out of it for a decade. The water/stain resistant seats and rubber floor are perfect for MTB and paddle sports. Easy to clean and no upholstery to hold odors. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Imagine you’re a female clerical worker or low level professional that can’t afford onsite downtown parking and has to walk thru that gauntlet to get to work. If you have to be in early or work late it’s in the dark. I shuttled lots of the ladies I worked with when I worked down there and it was a hell of a lot less hazardous then. Easy vote for council persons that drive straight into the city hall underground garage. Let’s see one of them walk 20 blocks after a 3 am meeting ends by themselves. Sucks being afraid just trying to get to/from work. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Honda’s voice recognition still sucks. Siri on Apple CarPlay is 1000% better. Since it’s just an interface to your phone there’s nothing new to dick with. Just plug and play. My kind of stupid simple technology. If the passport was around when I traded in my element 3 years ago I may have considered it. Pilot/Passport/Ridgeline are same vehicle from front seats forward. Drivetrain, dash, width/height etc is identical. Just rear seat(s) configuration and length changes. Passport gains extra storage where the Pilot 3rd row folds into deck. I like the Ridgeline trunk to keep all my bike gear/tools/camping chairs permanently. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you could jam the 280 hp V6 in my ridgeline in an Element I’d never own a different vehicle. Just a bit hard to fit 3 adults, 2 dogs and all the luggage/bikes/etc and drag that little 4 banger up a mountain. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

For me, my Honda Ridgeline has plenty of tech compared to the Element I drove for 10 yrs and 180k mi. [emoji51] Since it’s 425 mi to my family and 175 mi to the in-laws I use the hell out of the adaptive cruise control. Great on driving fatigue on 7+ hr drives. Yes the Honda backup cameras now has a wide view to see around parked vehicles when backing up and mine actually has 3 views including a look down so you can better back up to a hitch. I feel your pain on the backup beep but mine doesn’t brake. It is a PITA when the tailgate is down since the camera points at the ground and I can’t tell wtf it’s beeping at. It will jam on the brakes if someone moves into the gap when you have the cruise on. Takes a bit to get used to. Honda’s system is not nearly as smooth as the Subie system I’ve used on the in-laws Forestor on trips. Crazy how almost every setting, and there’s hundreds, are now done thru the “infotainment center” touch screen. You can even change them based on which key fob it senses. I’ll echo the CarPlay love. Waze, Pandora, Spotify, audible and phone/messaging on the touchscreen or by Siri. I probably exemplify the Honda buyer that looks for reliability over tech crowd. I have so little free time a lot of the year I don’t want to spend it going to a dealership. Comfy seats, tunes and I’ll go for 8-9 hours, the rest is great but meh. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Looks like they finally changed the sign at Parmer to Trek Store. Pretty sure it still had BSS up last Saturday. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yep. Don’t know anyone that didn’t warranty at least one of those frames here back in the late 90’s/early 00’s. I’d never buy a used one from around here. Saw some team only bike photos from the pits at last weekend’s World Cup and it looks like Santa Cruz is reintroducing a single pivot race bike. No official name yet, but wondering if they’ll reuse the Superlight name like they have the Blur, Heckler, and Bullit. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Did an early WC R no I lap this morn. Stopped for a minute at the start of the fence line on the neighborhood side and the little bastards were buzzing me. Must be a bunch of water on the power station property across the fence because Mark’s art was all dry. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ha! I used to play XM’s AC/DC channel in the car when she was little, but no Slayer. Still occasionally surprises me I’ll hear her playing Jackson Browne, or Tom Petty and a good mix of Beatles and their solo stuff. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You’d be surprised how many kids now have monthly streaming services that let them download the whole album. It’s the millennials that were the 1 song at a time crowd. My teenager and her friends do more playlist by artists of their whole catalog then you’d imagine. Different world. They stream and watch an entire tv series vs live tv and share albums/artists vs radio / mtv. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I never played Disney / kiddie music in my car and drove the kid to daycare and school her first 10-11 years. She knows the lyrics to probably 60% of what I play. So do several of her friends. Unfortunately she knows just as much Taylor Swift, etc. and they love to torture me with it and the occasional country pop crap. Like us it’s what their exposure was and my parents rarely listened to music. I have it on in the car, garage, etc. so she’s exposed to it and learned it. Gotta parent them to teach them the difference between musicians and top 40 crap that’s ghost written and over produced. They were around in the 80’s too. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You’d be amazed at what you can be used to, move and find it incredibly unbearable when you return. My college summer job was on a cable tv line crew. 10+ hours climbing poles, drilling to hang hardware and the steel wire, then reversing course to lash the cable line to the steel guide. This in 90-100 temps and 95% humidity in S La. along roads and fields under power lines there is no shade. Just to make it more miserable it would rain pretty much every afternoon for 15 min so you’d get a nice steam coming off the asphalt for an hour plus. Still that was better than when you had to slug it thru sugar cane fields or swampy sections you can’t get equipment into. Dragging 3-400 lbs of steel wire pole to pole then having to climb the pole with spurs, which meant knee high leather climbing boots, long sleeves, leather gloves and heavy assed tool belt. Best incentive to finish college ever invented, but covered 2 semesters room and board and then some. Now I just hate it and avoid going there in July and August unless there’s some sort of family must attend thing. Austin ain’t humid but it is hot as fuck and there is no tree canopy. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’ve 10% almost every year since 2002. Used to file protest but last few years even if they lowered value the 10% increase still was 3-4 years from that value. Screwed. [emoji2369] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Definitely a great area if you love to bike or paddle or fly fish! That was one of the first destinations I started going on bike/float/hike trips back in the early 90’s. Asheville has a much stronger non-tourist economy now and it’s transformed Brevard from the sleepy college town it was back then. Much more bang for your buck out there and WFH lately sure makes it easier to have a good job and live where you want vs. where the $$$ is! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I use the Sharpie method. Wrote breaker # and related outlet/lights as I’ve had to figure it out with a Sharpie on the Sheetrock next to the breaker box on the garage wall. [emoji849] As I’ve done work on each room I’ve replaced the outlets & switches too. Cheapie contractor grade in beige had to go. This genius wiring configuration took me a while to figure out. The outlets in all 3 bathrooms up & downstairs and the exterior outlets at front and rear door are on a single circuit that’s controlled by one GFCI outlet that’s of all places in the center of the garage wall. Not even at the garage outlet closest to the breaker box. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

In S La you cut it up in a few pieces first and the gators take care of it no time. Just don’t be a tight wad and try to use it in your crawfish traps. [emoji2955] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You can add some of the rubbery tool drawer liner to the bottom to help with things sliding around. And if you want faster than wood glue, a bead of liquid nails and a couple of brads, done in 10 min. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Wax Leaf Ligustrum’s (aka privet) perhaps? Hacked mine year one. Make me sneeze like hell. https://images.app.goo.gl/JyUcAza3JPfgNKDS6 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you have teens just go for the 4 USB no power outlet version. [emoji849] we have 3 phones, 3 tablets, 2 Bluetooth speaks, 3 wireless earbuds, etc and I got tired of my stuff getting unplugged to charge theirs! Also routed the cable so it’s hard for them to disappear...teens. Also replaced my computer power strip to one with 2 USB’s for WFH all day streaming. [emoji51] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I watched some tips Jill Kintner was giving a YouTuber pre-Covid that just clicked. Don’t move your center of gravity i.e. body position fore/aft. Just drop you seat and move your hips up/down only. Then you aren’t sucking up momentum. Took a couple of runs to work on timing but I have to scrub speed to make a few turns now! [emoji51] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I got stupid lucky and my back flow preventer (why the hell is it above ground) had a split pipe on the outflow side. Just turned the inflow valve off and I’ll deal with it when it gets hotter and I need to start watering. Amazing how much water that bigger line can lose in under an hour! Neighbor knocked on my door and it was shooting 10’ up and had a creek down the side of the house. Water bill was within $20 of prior month so got lucky IMO. So glad a hose bib didn’t burst but one faucet drips when on so guessing it needs new gaskets inside. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you go to mineral Wells you could possibly do a 2fer and hit Dino Valley SP too. I’ve known a few people that went to MW and the trailway is a rails-to-trails. so flat wide railroad grade easier grade than Southern Walnut Creek. Garner is pretty but a freakin zoo on the weekends and the Frio lives up to its name. [emoji3063] There’s a cool bat cave to visit on private property just south of there if the freetails have made it up yet. Lost Maples was a better hike to me. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk