Well…I’m not sure how this day got away from me but it did…I did think about doing a political one but just couldn’t do it….I needed to take a day off from trump and his cronies or my brain will turn to mush just like theirs and I am not going  let that happen to me…so, let’s talk about the day instead…you remember from this morning I said I had found a new trail to ride after the flooding started on the normal trail…well…that worked for two days and then, when I got to the entry to the tail this morning, the whole trail was flooded and that meant I had to take the road up to the high parts of the trail and cut across the fields to get back to it…so I got started and got all the way to the other side of the park but then one of the ring roads was flooded and it was the damnest thing that I saw…there were fish swimming across the trail and into the woods against the flow of water that sounded like a waterfall and was 300 yards long….saw some big damn carp that must have been 20 pounds and even saw a couple of steelhead heading upstream….pretty cool even with having to find dry trail to ride…but, that wasn’t the only thing that happened…I had planned to only take one ride today to try to not hurt so much and have more energy…and to help the re-occurrence of the gout…so instead I got after the trim on the driveway side of the front of the house and got that painted today along with the gutter that is hung on that side that is aluminum and not the copper of the rest of them…but standing on the ladder for two hours really made the swelling in my foot explode and I am going to have to keep it raised all night to try to help it….so I do have an excuse for not doing a political one today but I’ll get back to it tomorrow…you can count on that…but, right now…..I am going to have a cocktail or 3 tonight and get caught up on the shows I’ve ignored all week….