It’s Fall!

It's Fall!
When I got up around 8 this morning, it was overcast, windy, and 78 degrees. That was already weird, because every other morning it’s been sunny and over 80. OH GOD, IT’S FALL NOW. The 10-day forecast says 83ish during the day and 77 at night. That’s a weird fall in most places. We rode down to Firefly for brunch ...

Today’s Island Circle

Today's Island Circle
Today after breakfast we rode over to Fast Buck’s to pay for our couch, which will be delivered Monday and I CAN’T WAIT. Our house will look so much nicer. As we rode toward Stock Island, we encountered a charity ride going the other direction. They’d started in Miami the day before, camped halfway, and were ending at the White ...

Gardening in the Near-Tropics

Gardening in the Near-Tropics
Listen: I have a Key Lime tree. I’m realistic and therefore don’t have high expectations for my lime tree (especially since they can take multiple years to produce), but it’s currently covered in white flowers that smell like lime, and therefore I’m pretty hopeful about it. Now I just have to get the chickens to stop malingering near it and ...

Sports fandom is expensive 2

Before we moved, I did endless amounts of Googling and asking people on the internet about how one goes about watching their local sports teams when they move to another market. Nobody was able to answer that question, but now that we’re doing that, here’s how it works: You can’t have Comcast. This is probably good news to everyone anyway. ...