The climate in the present day is spring-tacular. Not solely is new stuff popping out of the bottom:

However the spring peepers are even peeping! I solely seen spring peepers for the primary time like final 12 months, which is unusual, since they’re loud as fuck and I don’t understand how I’ve managed to tune them out all this time. Right here’s what they sound like:

The video is 9 hours lengthy, however ensure you watch till the very finish, as a result of it’s price it.

Simply kidding:

Ha ha, made you watch.

Anyway, yesterday was wet however in the present day was heat and sunny, so there was a beguiling mist hanging over the hilltops that I couldn’t determine learn how to seize with my poor images expertise:

Simply spray your monitor with Pam or one thing and also you’ll get the thought.

I used to be additionally fairly happy with my alternative of bicycle:

I all the time thought I’d be too previous to trip a singlespeed mountain bike by this level in my life, however paradoxically it’s fairly the other, and it seems while you get previous and snow piddling round on a tiny gear is juuust effective.

Plus, quickly I’m not going to have a lot alternative, since my older son is formally sufficiently big to applicable the Jones now:

Of all my bikes it’s the one he’s all the time most admired, and now that he can trip it he’s fairly excited. In actual fact he’d like me to offer it to him completely, however to be able to take possession he should first move a expertise take a look at that can contain efficiently negotiating a sequence of off-road obstacles with out placing a foot down. Ought to he full these Feats of Power, the Jones might be his:

In terms of bikes or the rest, it’s extraordinarily essential to place near-insurmountable obstacles in your kids’s paths, in any other case they may get the concept that it’s all proper to get pleasure from themselves, and also you wouldn’t need that.

Thankfully, there’s little probability kids in New York will fall prey to the delusion that using bikes is fulfilling, due to the best way we speak about it:

I believe we both want to vary the best way we speak about using bikes or retire the time period “advocate.” Sadly, no sane particular person would learn an advocate’s Twitter feed and conclude that using a motorbike is an affordable factor to do.

— Bike Snob NYC (@bikesnobnyc) March 8, 2022

I do know it’s essential to attract consideration to the “stuff that should change” a part of using bikes, however I believe perhaps we’re shedding sight of the “using a motorbike is superior” half whereas we’re at it. In actual fact I don’t keep in mind the final time I noticed somebody refer positively to using a motorbike in New York Metropolis, in order an experiment I went to the Government Director of Transportation Alternate options’s Twitter feed to see how far I had to return earlier than I discovered one thing that made using a motorbike sound enticing versus like a suicide mission. Finally I bought uninterested in scrolling gave up, however I did discover this:

Lob is aware of there’s one million issues improper with automobiles and the way we use them, however that is like saying the dagger ear cuff is constructed for the only goal of stabbing individuals to loss of life, when everyone knows its actual goal is to deflect the truth that you’re too afraid to defy your mother and father by really getting your ear pierced:

The competition that barbed wire license plate frames are supposed to impale individuals is very absurd when you think about that so as to take action you’d should ram them with it, which goes to maim or kill them even in case you’ve bought a completely benign license plate body similar to this:

If something, I’d be way more nervous about Cat Mother, who may very well be distracted by the 40 strays within the again she’s rounded up for spaying and neutering.

Anyway, it’s not that I aspect with the car-addled individuals over the advocates, it’s simply that persons are so car-addled it takes a pointy device to chop via the brainwashing, and in case you as a substitute attempt to go at it with a plastic sport like claiming novelty license plate frames are designed to kill individuals it solely reinforces their notion that anybody whose essential of automobiles is loopy.

Although in the event that they ever attempt to make us put license plates on our bicycles we will get barbed wire license plate frames too!