Since yesterday’s ride south of town on the fatty was a mud fest, I thought I might try north of town today; on the Boone. How bad could it be? Not that bad.
As always, a ride on the Boone the day after riding the Farley feels amazeballs. Mmm….35c tires… lightweight carbon fiber… cruising speeds over 12 miles per hour–all good stuff.
North of town was good choice for today. There were some muddy spots, but for the most part they were pretty packed down and fast. Like the southerly roads yesterday, many featured a ton of earth worms on some sort of mass exodus… or dead. The one seen above was still alive but right in the middle of the road, so after I snapped this pic, I picked him up and threw him into the beans to get his worm on amongst the soy (#earthwormsmatter).
Speaking of beans…
I never really got up close in personal with soy beans before their harvested. Most of the summer their leaves are covering them so I never knew they look like fuzzy little camel dicks (not that I am all that familiar with camel dicks, but one can assume).
Still on the subject of beans: I guess the pic above is the one that got away. Had I moved to the left I probably would have got the shot I wanted, but didn’t, so I SORT of got the shot I wanted. I wanted the barn out of focus, but in my haste didn’t realize how close I was to the plants directly in front of me. Next time…
Lots of action continues to go on out on the farm roads: beans and corn being harvested, cows getting their feed on and fall manure spreading, the later seen below.
Sniff it in.
Be glad you can’t smell the (poor) photo above. The air was rich with the scent of steamy manure. I sort of don’t mind it and watching the spreader is sort of soothing… like a watching a hippo in the zoo [click here to get what I mean].
Well housed Nubian goats doing goat stuff.
The roads were in much better condition today and it was nice to move at a much faster pace and get a bit more of “real” 30 mile ride in. Sure, I still stopped here and there to snap some pics, but that’s just sort of what I have grown to like doing.
Hoping to get some miles in tomorrow before the rain moves back in.
Later.