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Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 07:47 am
Air temperature 55 F, light northeast wind, mostly cloudy. Heating system service today, in which we find if the equipment will survive another Maine winter. Walk later.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 03:53 pm
We have geese! Maybe a couple dozen seen at the cemetery pond on my way out, more like 40-50 on my way back. Some looked like 3/4 scale models. Don't know if they recruited another flock or I just didn't see all of them the first time. Or even the second time.
Roadkill limited to one gray squirrel and the usual blood patches on the road.
Arrowhead blooming in the outfall pools at culverts through the bog. Also, lots and lots of "fall dandelions" (which are neither), more than we recall from past years. But that may reflect less mowing due to drought.
Got out on the bike, up to the golf course and over to the road through the bog and home. Did not die.
15.33 miles, 1:27:40
Roadkill limited to one gray squirrel and the usual blood patches on the road.
Arrowhead blooming in the outfall pools at culverts through the bog. Also, lots and lots of "fall dandelions" (which are neither), more than we recall from past years. But that may reflect less mowing due to drought.
Got out on the bike, up to the golf course and over to the road through the bog and home. Did not die.
15.33 miles, 1:27:40
Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 12:44 pm
About that "winter is coming" thing:
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/19/state/parts-of-maine-got-frost-last-night/
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/19/state/parts-of-maine-got-frost-last-night/
Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 06:54 am
Air temperature 48 F, wind northwest about 4 mph, partly cloudy. Overnight lows in the 30s F in the "rooftop" of Maine. Winter is coming.
Foraging morning, walk or bike ride afternoon.
Foraging morning, walk or bike ride afternoon.
Monday, August 18th, 2025 06:53 pm
Monday, August 18th, 2025 11:21 am
Dear mental disk-jockey -- just because I like the Sibelius violin concerto does *not* mean I want it playing on repeat all morning.
Monday, August 18th, 2025 10:12 am
Met up with Ms. Sasha on my morning walk -- got past her house and looked back and found a cat following me. So we schmoozed for the limit of my kneeling-down capacity, walked around the corner without her *quite* tripping me, and had another session on the walkway to her secondary nests and food dishes. Hadn't seen her for over a week.
Monday, August 18th, 2025 06:52 am
Air temperature 50 F, wind northwest gusting to 20 mph, sunny. Front passed through yesterday in two phases -- first drenching rain that mostly ran off, with wind. Later, a round of gentler rain that lasted for a couple of hours. That may have sunk in and done some good. Walk morning, errand afternoon.
Sunday, August 17th, 2025 11:37 am
One flat and dried skunk in front of the fire station, no stink but the black and white fur is diagnostic.
Usual summer flowers by the roadside, including some bull thistles starting to fluff. This is pretty much the Scottish thistle, largest and latest to bloom around here.
No interesting metal birds at the base. I'd heard a multi-engine turboprop when I was headed out, but that's the all of it.
Bike ride, just on the edge of heat but did not die. Takes me over 400 miles for the year. Again, about half of what I'd like.
15.71 miles, 1:30:45
Usual summer flowers by the roadside, including some bull thistles starting to fluff. This is pretty much the Scottish thistle, largest and latest to bloom around here.
No interesting metal birds at the base. I'd heard a multi-engine turboprop when I was headed out, but that's the all of it.
Bike ride, just on the edge of heat but did not die. Takes me over 400 miles for the year. Again, about half of what I'd like.
15.71 miles, 1:30:45
Sunday, August 17th, 2025 07:12 am
Air temperature 63 F, wind southwest about 6 mph, mostly cloudy. Thunderstorms "likely" this afternoon, but the only rain on the weather radar is skimming the top of Maine. Should try for a bike ride this morning to check on any interesting birds at the airport/base.