Saturday, May 31, 2008

Up in the woods again...

I had been planning on going up to the Wemple Cabin area to ride my bike and look for mushrooms for the last several days but the weather has been less than ideal for bike riding until now. I parked my truck up by Wemple Cabin, rode down to Antelope Lake and back up the Boulder Creek road. It was a fairly nice day and I stopped often and looked for the illusive mushrooms but didn't find any.
I did find some really pretty snow plants though and I took this picture of one of them.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Yep, bike riding again!


There was a strange light in the sky this morning and it turned out to be something I haven't seen much of for the last week... sun. I got an early start and did a short (18 mile) bike ride up to Devil's Corral and back down through the Susanville Ranch Park. The recent rain has kept everything nice and lush and the flowers are still blooming like mad. It's nice to see splashes of color as you ride along and today they were everywhere. It turned cloudy after lunch and almost total overcast by 3:00. I was back from my ride by then so it didn't matter. Tomorrow more bike riding, this time up in the woods for the day.... Yep Pete, same 'ol, same 'ol.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Ahhh... Computers!

Personally I can't see my life these days without a computer or broadband Internet service. The technology side of my life really doesn't conflict with my love of the outdoors but I would have truly liked to be out in the woods riding my bike today.

I started out this morning on the phone helping my daughter with an adware program she had somehow gotten on her desktop computer. It was fairly easy to clean and that was a good start to the day.

I ended up over at my friend Tom's house to see if I could help him solve a little computer problem he had. One thing kinda led to another and before I knew it I had been to Linda's house as well as Elaine's to check out their computer issues too. I had my bike loaded in the back of my truck but I never had a chance to get on it... oh well. It wasn't a very nice day anyway, mostly overcast and not very warm... mid 50's.

The end result of all the computer shit today was somewhat positive, Linda's computer is good, Elaine's issues were more questions, and good old Tom... he always gives me a run for my money. It never fails to amaze me of the problems that happen to Tom. At the present time I'm not sure of the outcome of the last set of instructions I sent Tom to try to fix his problem. I'll be hearing from him soon, I'm sure. I just love computers! (I really do, you know)