October is my favorite month in Minnesota, and this month is turning out to be spectacular. It's hard to believe today's high temperature will be around 85 degrees! Warmer than most days in June or September this year. And that means an extended bicycling season. I love the crunching sound of dried leaves under wheel, but the partially gnawed black walnuts left behind by squirrels can be a real hazard.
I tooled around Lake Nokomis yesterday and, in addition to the usual compliment of dog walkers, cyclist and rollerbladers, I saw sail boats (including one with a dog in the bow--bow wow, indeed), a kayak, several people swimming, a child building a sand castle and some guys jamming on some tight blue grass/mountain music licks on the fishing dock. Really, this is not normal Minnesota behavior for October.
But we'll take it. The snows of winter can't be that far behind, and all of this will then be just a lovely memory.
Happy trails to ya.
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