Rain GO AWAY!!!!

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On a recent morning, this Luna Moth was at the door where my daughter, Kathy, works. What a beautiful specimen! Job Applicant? Things are tough all over. Maybe it was looking for work. For more on the Luna, go to http://www.whatsthatbug.com/luna.html. If you want to look for other bugs, knock off the “luna.html” and go to whatsthatbug.com.

How to quickly end a picnic
Three friends and I took our picnic lunches to Great River Park in East Hartford yesterday. We walked part of the Lincoln sculpture trail before deciding we were hungry. As we spread out our lunches on the picnic table on the banks of the CT River we heard a rumble of thunder and observed the dark clouds to the north and west of Hartford, across the river.

I watched the clouds for a moment and declared they were heading away from us and, for the time being, we were OK. The weather report that morning said around noon to 1 p.m. the storms would start to come in. It was 12:26 when we first heard thunder. As we finished our lunch we heard the thunder to the south of us this time and all of us, almost simultaneously, suggested we adjourn! Just in the knick of time as the thick, widely spaced raindrops started to fall. The rest of the afternoon was spent sipping iced tea in the living room of one of the friends!

These storms were not too bad in northern CT, but along the shoreline there was a tornado warning issued. There was a lot of damage but the touchdown didn’t happen until the rotation reached Long Island Sound and became a waterspout.

Today. Similar scenario.
On the way home from an appointment with one of my mother’s doctors, we encountered a wicked storm. Low, black clouds; lightening all over the place; hail and blinding rain. We made it home in one piece and shortly thereafter…the rain came to an end.

Tomorrow and Sunday promise to be excellent bike riding days. Now that my bike has two new fenders and a new pannier rack in the front, I have to go on another shakedown cruise. The bike will handle differently with these additions. After I see how things are with a partial load, I will have to do a ride under simulated, full load, EC conditions to see if I can even pedal the darned bike! ☺☺

Countdown to EC ride: Four weeks from today.