After 3 days of landscaping, culminating in the final extirpation of a couple of gorgon-headed root balls from a very vigorous volunteer pricker bush, followed by the planting of a well-behaved mountain laurel, to which we gave enough water to reassure it in the mid-90's weather, I rode out to Depot Park, Bedford, and back, 20 miles on the Minuteman with the heat index just low enough that the breeze induced by forward motion was cooling, rather than heating. The ozone was noticeable. At least one rider appeared to be affected by the heat, swerving randomly into the oncoming lane.
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