Your ride sounds perfect and how can any ride not be magnificent when some beach side quietude is involved. Best wishes to you for more days like today.

“A turd of the worst”– that’s funny. I’ll have to store that away for a rainy day.

The family had a fine Thanksgiving get together with everyone around the table including my granddaughter. I can almost remember when I was her size and sitting around a different thanksgiving get together. Time has really flown by. I really am grateful to be here.

Winter. It’s almost a bad word for me. I’m hoping I’ll come to an accommodation with it and not struggle for months with the cold. Thank god I’m not in Buffalo.

The closest IKEA is Pittsburgh and then Philadelphia and Baltimore. Syracuse is a bit further.

Hope you had a good day and fear not, those snow tires will go on eventually. I usually wait until I feel snow is not just a fluke.

I cannot imagine using a portable toilet when it’s 126F. Ugh.

Moving to a colder climate would be rough. I used to think about it but the older I get the more crazy that seems. My big winter battle is with Kim. I would have the thermostat set at 78F. She would set it at 55F. We are worlds apart in our ideal temperature.

I just see them as splashes of color in an otherwise sort of brown landscape. As far as motivation, much like other situations, once I’m in motion I’m ok.

Context — those porta-potties, and many others, are used by the 100K plus people who come to Penn State football games. The fields are full of cars and RVs of serious fans.

I just got back from a 20-mile ride from Asbury Park to the edge of Long Branch, with a side-trip to donate a book. Temps just south of 60, with a bit of mist in the low sun. Wide roads, narrow roads. Stopping long the beach for a few minutes’ quietude. A fun, slightly-spirited ride home, not much traffic. Near-winter weather sucks, but not today. Just one more thing to be thankful for today.

The sun has appeared today November 26, I shoulddosome photography however other chores beckon.

You enjoy your traditional Thanksgiving; be thankful you’re alive to do so and not confined to a rehabilitation centre or nursing home or worse; planted in a stone orchard. Your grand-daughter shall keep you young and positive forthe future.

Given the last two winters here, suspect with El Nino in a far different location winter
shall bbe muchless for those of use in the same general area. Buffalo B+NY will as usual get hammered with snow however the balance shall not be as snowed in.

It’s your Thanksgiving. The nearby IKEA (head office for Canada) store has numerous
vehicles with license plates from New York State and Pennsylvania. Without a nearby
IKEA store in western New york and I think the closest one to you is Pittsburg or Syracuse, numerous residents of those states appear here; it is a regular business day here in Canada. We had our Thanksgiving the second Monday in October; a more reasonable time given possible weather difficultires in the USA andCanada late November.

Enjoy your family Steve, and maybe take time to put the snow tires on the Vespa; winter is coming, very slowly!

Try using a port-a-pot when the job site thermometer is reading 126 f.

I am struggling to get motivated to ride on these cold days. So far I have been unsuccessful. Florida sure is seductive, but a move there, even temporary, would be quite an undertaking for me. Not sure how to proceed, but I need to come up with something.