Working half a day and then Steve and I are headed down to Hermann, Missouri, for the weekend. There's a group of about 10 who are all going. Since the Tour of Hermann in May was cancelled, one of our friends (also named Steve) decided we should just do our own Tour. He got race bibs printed and I think is even having some fun awards. I'm really glad we're doing this. Hermann is a gorgeous German settlement along the Missouri River and it's wine country, so the routes are crazy hilly.

We're getting our front yard completely scraped down to the dirt and replanted by a local company, and then also having an irrigation system put in. Between a blight that killed off big patches of the grass and some pervasive weeds that have proven impossible to eradicate, it's just easier to tear it all out and start from scratch. The workers have been here a couple of times this week and now the front yard is nothing but dirt. It looks really, really bad, and I'm glad there's a sign from the irrigation contractor featured prominently out front so that people (nosy neighbors) know that this is temporary.



AFTERNOON UPDATE --- IN THE STRANGE AND GROSS CATEGORY
Worked in the office today and brought my lunch. There are a couple of refrigerators in the break room for employees' use. I put my lunch in one and noticed that there was a half empty gallon of milk in the back. It occurred to me that I'd seen this same container for quite some time. Checked the date --- 3/17/20!!!!!!
Removed it very carefully and set it in the trash. It was still semi-liquid with lots of strange looking curdled material sticking to the sides, and part of the container was bowed out.

We had a bike club board meeting last night that lasted close to 2 hours. The president stated up front that he wanted to keep the meeting to no more than an hour, but I feel like the agenda was pretty ambitious and there are too many slow talkers on the board. Anyway, a few items were tabled for the next meeting.

It's really starting to feel like fall. With the colder nights, the house is feeling cooler in the morning. I love it and hope it stays like this for a while.

Spent the day out in Cass County riding some gravel and country roads. There was some confusion with the route with one individual which ended up with the rest of us having to wait for her for close to an hour while she got "unlost", but otherwise it was a good day.

Steve got home from his golf trip pretty tired from the late nights but refreshed. It's great that this group, a bunch of friends from high school, still gets together once a year for a couple of days like this.

It rained all day, canceling any outdoor plans. I resorted to riding the trainer for an hour. Tried to go to Hobby Lobby in the afternoon for a few items and kept on going when I saw a line of about 15 people standing outside the store, waiting to get inside. No way was I going to deal with that.