Ride Home With Me on my commute. I’ve commuted by bike in cities around the country and it’s always great, but I feel pretty lucky to live and work around here now. Getting a gravel bike has made it even better as I can use some dirt roads and forest trails now.
Ride Home With Me on my commute. I’ve commuted by bike in cities around the country and it’s always great, but I feel pretty lucky to live and work around here now. Getting a gravel bike has made it even better as I can use some dirt roads and forest trails now.
I just discovered that Fidalgo Island where I live is home to a rare species called “seaside juniper”, or juniperus maritima. I’ve been thinking about trying to make bonsai versions of these two locally iconic trees, but now that I know the species is distinct and rare, I will need to find out if collecting seedlings from local parks is allowed.
If you ever watch House Hunters or similar shows, there are several episodes shot here that use the tree extending over the water. The house hunters usually walk out on the tree to have the conversation to decide which house to buy.
I woke up, got ready, and rode my bike to work (a medium difficulty 17 miles). My watch battery died in the middle of the ride so I charged it at the office. When I put it back on, my battery had increased substantially. I’ve never seen it do that before.
I’m using an old FR 55, which i resurrected after I lost my FR265 in the lake. The battery is on its last legs which is why I upgraded. Do the different Forerunners have different ways of measuring BB, or different levels of accuracy?
I will be coming to town for a long weekend, staying in an Airbnb and ferrying my kids to the Aquatic Center for a swim meet. I’m thinking of bringing my road bike to get some exercise and break up the long hours between events. I’m looking for a decent road loop around 20-30 miles but wondering about the bike friendly-ness of some of the larger roads.
Could any cyclists or locals comment on riding these roads?
- Dash Point Road/ 509, from 99 to Dash Point and then to Browns Point (from Street view it looks like a decent shoulder on the road, but maybe high traffic?)
- Northshore Pkwy from Browns Point until it turns into 304th St, to SW Campus Dr (street view looks like a wide road but no shoulder, decent sidewalk if the road is busy)
- any other recommendations?
…I’ve been here for years
This Golden Juniper is my first ever bonsai, made in a class 2-1/2 years ago. This guy has been near death several times but has always come back. As a beginner, first time juniper bonsai, its probability of survival was about 20% but it has persisted while lesser trees have died at my hands. First photo is shortly after a repot this past spring, when someone on here said it looked “kind of sad”, and the rest are from today.
Hopefully the roots over the rocks will fill out as I direct the cascading pads. They don’t seem to want to stay tied close to the rocks.
I’m trying to mount a rear pannier rack on my Scott Addict Gravel using the through axle adapter, but the attachment lever interferes with the rear derailleur barrel adjuster. No amount of playing with spacers can get the lever clear, on the inside or outside of the cable. The rack will install perfectly if I put it on backwards, even though it looks odd. I need to relocate the seatpost bar clamp somehow (this has not been done in these staged photos), but is there anything wrong with using the rack this way? There is plenty of tire clearance all around.
Photos 1-2 are the rack latched on backwards with seatpost clamp staged, and 3-4 are the clamp installed the conventional way. The purpose of the rack is to hold a pannier for commuting, because I’m tired of having a sweaty pack on my back.
Edit: thanks everyone for the comments! I guess I needed someone to talk to about the consistency of my poop, which is not an easy conversation to start up, even with a spouse. Now I feel seen, as one comment mentions. I do hope anyone facing surgery who reads this thread will not get scared, because these are small inconveniences compared to the chronic pain and health issues with a diseased colon.
I just found this sub, so in a small nutshell: I dealt with occasional ER visits due to diverticulitis for several years, until I developed a fistula between my colon and bladder (which had very weird symptoms if you want to hear about that). I went in for surgery to close up the hole, and ended under the knife for 6 hours and getting 8” of colon removed, along with scraping away many points of adhesion with the abdominal wall. Recovery went smoothly even though the surgery was far more dramatic and invasive and lengthy than expected.
Since the surgery, the one lingering side effect has been stabilizing my BM’s. For a few months i went to the bathroom more frequently and pooped smaller quantities than before. I eventually settled in to a semi-constipated state with very hard stools a couple times per day for a few months, which was a little uncomfortable but manageable. All of a sudden one day, everything changed and almost went all the way to diarrhea, for a few weeks, then suddenly back to hard. Since then things swing back and forth between constipation and diarrhea, every few weeks and without warning. I also deal with leakage quite often, which is disgusting and distressing. It doesn’t matter how carefully I clean up or what products I use, I often have streaks in my drawers at the end of the day. My surgeon said that is normal but eventually goes away, but it has not (he has gone away though, moved to a different hospital out of state).
I would like to hear from anyone else who has had colon section surgery and what the long term life changes have been like. My quality of life is far better than before, with no abdominal pains and no more mysterious infections and fevers, even if I have to deal with unpredictable toilet outcomes. I think I will get more serious with tracking food and water intake, and focus on fiber tracking, to see what correlates with changing stools. I think I may have a form of IBS now, but without pain and with symptoms changing over weeks instead of during the day.
It did not go well. Is there any saving it?
Original post (with photos of prime spring colors): https://www.reddit.com/r/bonsaicommunity/s/L0v1J6C8Cj
I drive by this tree every day. I don’t know the people who live here but they practically have an arboretum of mature native trees in their yard. This mostly dead hollow tree on the corner is striking though. Every winter it looks like it’s finally gone for good, and every spring it sprouts growth and leaves and flowers. Just some deadwood inspiration for a bonsai composition.