Saddle-sore but satisfied ~

A wonderful couple of Fall days here in the Burg; what a great time of year this is here. Let's see if I can remember what we've been up to.

Ahh yes, yesterday I began my Veterans' Day observance with a nice jog thru the sunshine and brilliant fall colours. When I got back I used my iPod jog-tracker to discover that it takes me 27 minutes to mow the whole yard and burns 100 calories. There will be a quiz.

M had a great pot of her cream of chicken soup waiting inside so I threw lo-carb to the wind and enjoyed a bowl or two. Then I headed upstairs for a nap. One thing did not lead to another and I wound up sleeping about 45 minutes and then just lounging and channel-surfing for two more hours. How deliciously indolent.

M had hoped to do our Second Annual Fall Bikeride to and Around Jamestown Island yesterday but I begged off, noting I was bushed from jogging. When M came back from Kiwanis this morning I noted we needed a trip to Costco, but she had not forgotten the bikes and pointed out this was our last chance for several days and the leaves are really starting to fall here. So surprise! off we went.

It was cloudy but now and again the clouds thinned and enough sun was added to really bring out the fall colors. The ride is beautiful, down rt 5 to Greensprings Road and then down to the Parkway, which leads to a road across an isthmus to the Island. And on the island is a 5-mile paved loop. What you see along the way is utterly untouched and doubtless looks as it did in colonial times. A couple of buck deer appeared and many more could be heard thrashing around in the brushy woods.

Of course M and I now lift a world-savvy eyebrow at the breathless signboard descriptions of "ancient" paths and roads dating back to the 1600s. Two weeks ago today we were atop Agamemnon's palace, circa 1400 BC. We know from Ancient.

We went to the museum and had a light lunch in their cafeteria and then re-toured the grounds and the reconstructed village that used to sit where our Club now is. Finally we headed home. I had 24.7 miles on the Trek's trip odometer by the time we got here and it felt good to get off the saddle for the day.

This eve we dined out with 14 other couples in "Reservations Only" and had a very enjoyable evening. By noon tomorrow we'll be headed twds DC in a minor deluge, bound for a Shakespeare play. We'll stay with our friends the Beenes again and then I'll attend (and speak at) a surprise retirement "roast" of a guy I worked with Friday noon in DC. Friday eve we'll journey to the new Lord of Life West campus for "The Music Man," starring my old stage and S'Wind buddy Paul Denfeld, and then drive home.

Should be fun.