Well, it's really summer again. Today is Fathers' Day and we are expecting 111 degrees. It's currently two in the afternoon and 104 in the shade. So maybe we won't make it to that 111 after all (at least in the suburbs). We set up our small solar oven in the backyard and my wife is making pineapple upside down cake to cook in it. That will be followed by some potatoes to bake (all in preparation for our Fathers' Day meal). Two of my sons and their sons will be here for a while (most of the kids were here last week for a different occasion and so we had a head start on Fathers' Day celebrations).
We went out somewhat early yesterday morning for a quick 10-mile ride. We went around the ASU Research Park a couple times and then came home. It was pretty warm by the time we got home. We went by a couple people we know who were standing outside their house and we waved. They waved back. When we saw them later in the day, we asked about waving to those strangers on the bike and trike and they laughed and asked if that were us. They hadn't recognized us, but since we waved to them, they waved back. I wonder how many of our other friends have seen us out riding, have done a double take, and said, "Nah, it couldn't be THEM..."
We will be trying to do part of the Tour de Phoenix course early on the Fourth of July (if we are not in Tucson trying a route down there with our daughter and her husband). Chances are, if it is like our other early morning rides, even the long ones, when we get back, the rest of the family will still be sleeping or just getting up.
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Glad you didn't attempt to ride today. I did my usual 25 miler up around the zoo. It was hot, hot, hot. I think the ozone was heavy, too. I was pretty much wiped out when I got home. Started at 7:30 am at 81 degrees. When I got back it was 98.
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