Well…I could go off on a real rant about the nonsense of not being able to pass even the feeblest gun control legislation, but I’m not going to do that…as you can see from the title….the ride today was pretty interesting with all of the stuff to see that you normally don’t…snakes for one…saw a bunch of snakes on the warm pavement just sitting there as I rode by…I could have picked any number of them up with not too much trouble….then there were the wooly bears…ended my count at 272 of them and that was only in the first half of the ride…so, we may have more monarch butterflies next year…then, there was the great blue heron that is back in the retention pond…well…not in the pond but on the little dam at the end of it…didn’t move when I went by and that was pretty cool…lastly, there was the female red tailed hawk that was sitting on the fence by the same pond…got within about three feet before it took off…it was finally nice to have things to see and make the ride so much less boring…and I did get the new battery in the computer for the bike so I can read it again…yay….