I'm back! The foot's still a bit funny, but i couldn't stand any more time off the bike! I actually rode in last night, too. Scattered heavy showers. I got rained on a bit. Funny thing was, the water that splashed up from the puddles was almost hot, after cooling down the sunbaked roads. It was dry on the way home, and i saw some fireflies.

Today was perfect. Beautiful weather with a tailwind in. I didn't have the usual fun of whipping down Cemetery Hill at unbelievable speeds, because there were a car and farm wagon ahead of me, and anyway, they slowed down because there were a bunch of kids around the road. I don't know what they were doing there, there were about fifteen of them, they were all about 12ish, wore red jerseys over their shirts, and a few were carrying buckets. (Maybe they were picking up golf balls?) Anyway, several of them called out stuff like, "Hi, Biker Woman!" and that was fun, too. I even ran onto one of the library patrons on his bike at the grocery store, where I stopped to buy lunch, and we had a nice chat.

On the way home, the wind had died, and it was cool and...perfect. This time of year I'm never really biking in the dark, and today it was almost daylight when I got started home. In a field, I saw a brown mound, and I rang my bell at it to see if it was a raccoon. It was. Later , when it was darker and I was near home, I saw a whitetail deer go bounding away from the road. And the fireflies were back!