hot n' windy

We've been enjoying two weeks of married life on the hot n' windy prairie. Folks out here keep complaining about how muggy it is---and perhaps it is a bit on the muggy side (though the days leading up to our wedding day were way more humid than it's been lately). I guess all the time I've spent in the Southeast, namely Alabama and Georgia, gives me a different perspective on muggy. For riding a bicycle---I love this weather. Granted, for doing other stuff---it is a bit hot---but I love riding in the heat.

I keep telling myself that it is time for a rest-day. As in a day off-the-bike. My rest days have equaled about 30 mile spins. It isn't like I am training for anything---but I keep thinking about all those cold winter days when I won't be able to get outside and pedal, and I head straight for my biking shoes and out I go. I'm sure it is fine, but I do notice that my legs feel a bit worked. Oh well---I can't seem to talk myself out of it---and I don't go "hard" anyway so until it rains---I guess I will keep on keeping on!

The corn in the cornfields has grown to such heights in the last couple of weeks. It's all taller than me for sure! Even the soybean fields look full and lush. My favorite thing to spot are last season's cornstalks that appear at random in a sea of soybean plants. You'll see miles and miles of green soybeans and in the middle of it all, a lone corn stalk towering over the plants. Remnants of last years crop? Or maybe some wind-blown misplaced seeds?

The annoying thing in all the beautiful outdoors is the---bugs. Namely the mosquito's. All those "I told you so's" can be kept to yourself---Mike and I sit underneath our garage door in the evenings, sipping beer, juice, or something cool, surrounded by citronella candles and playing ball with the Scrapper...the candles do keep the annoying biting pest's away for the most part. But our yard is so lovely, it would be nice to be able to enjoy it without getting "all chewed up" by the flying biting bugs!

Oh well---another supposed-to-be rest day is sidelined for a 45 mile spin out West. The Tour de France is resting today---but their version of rest is active recovery---and if I put it in perspective, every day is a rest day on the bike for this gal!!

Happy Monday!