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Happy Preakness Day Baltimore peeps! Giddy up!

I’ll bet I see a lot this evening. I’m ready!

Still nothing here.

Beautiful!

The gas line fire near here is crazy. How can something like that continue for over 90 minutes? I would have thought there would be a way to shut that off quickly.

I was in the yard all day and still nada. Okay with me. I want one more weekend without them.

Stellar day!

So maybe I’ll have to take off work on Friday and come up Thursday evening! How late are you open on Thursdays?

Exactly my thoughts. Bu the way, I’m pretty sure I’ll be backpacking in the Sods next weekend. Hoping to stop in to the taproom and even more hopeful that I might get to purchase some of the bread and or pizza you’ve been making. Are the hours on the website accurate? I’m not on Facebook.

Like others have said, this spring has been fine temperature-wise, but the wind has been cruddy.

I hope that you’re right. Some people will simply not want to get vaccinated and that’s their business, but once the emergency is lifted, I hope that those that are worried about it, will get it. But who knows. It would be pretty ironic to find out in a year that my third useless eye is a result of the vaccine.

I don’t think a broad statement like that is accurate. There are plenty of folks not getting vaccinated that haven’t gotten covid. My dad, for example, is against the vaccine and though he’s (thankfully) not contracted the virus, I don’t think he feels like he needs to do his part of anything. As a side note, I don’t begrudge anyone for not getting vaccinated. For my dad’s argument that it was rushed and he feels like it’s a risk, I respect that. But he is going to have to respect my choice of not seeing him because I don’t want to risk him getting covid. Even though I’m vaccinated, as we all know, I can still be asymptomatic. The vaccine isn’t just to prevent contracting the virus, it’s also for mitigating the severity if you do get it.

Expected low tonight here of 50 so I might plant today. I have some beans coming up from last years pods that fell on the ground, so I think I’ll be okay.

Living in a very populated area is why I haven’t had a problem wearing a mask. I don’t like it any more than the next person, but it’s been a necessary deterrent to the virus.

Still is!!

I never see them until late May at the earliest. And another walk around the kingdom this evening gave no sign of the cicadas either.

Super cool!

We were both racing back then and on a training ride. Heading up a hill and he was breathing hard and *snap* straight down his gullet. He was off his bike in a hurry and tried choking it up but it was gone. Pretty awesome. Also, I don’t think the brood X’s are that big. I mean they’re big, but not huge,

You’d know better than me because I wasn’t in this immediate area in ‘87. I was in Burtonsville and it was worse here in ‘04 than there in ‘87, though I remember in ‘87 that during a bike ride, a friend of mine inadvertently swallowed one. What a great ride that was. I almost fell off my bike laughing at him.

I just went out and surveyed the yard and saw no sign of them here yet. They were really bad in 2004 so I’m sure it’s just a few days away.

I’ve been holding off on everything. I’m shooting for this Thursday.

I’ve had 1.25” for May so far in my backyard, and I’m enjoying the cooler weather if for no other reason to hopefully delay the cicadas until after the Preakness. Though it would be a hoot to see them swarming at Pimlico.

Thick, pasty, globules on our slider during the heaviest part of the storm. This is all I managed to capture.

I’m so lame.