I worked until 4 today on the tiny houses book (which is humming along), and took off on my new bike for the hills. I haven’t been on a bike in the hills for many years, and this was like opening familiar synapses. Plus a bike that rides uphill like you practically have a motor, and absorbs shocks like one of the old Citroens, is a pleasure, to be sure. Hey, this was fun being able to cover so much more ground than running.
I ran across a couple out in the woods, he with a canvas bag on his shoulder, “Good hunting?” I asked. “No.”
Yeah, right, like your bag isn’t full of mushrooms, dude. Well, I’d do the same thing. So I rode out to beyond where I figured walkers would go and looked in the woods. Found some mushrooms, not sure about them, but the prize was a bobcat skull and other bones. Since I haven’t quite got my bike act together yet, I didn’t have a backpack, so I took off my shirt and rolled up and tied the mushrooms and bones in a hobo package (which meant riding home in the cold without a shirt). However, not only was I warmed up by the exertion, but on the way home the sky turned vivid pink, with clouds running horizontally, and a red band running vertically. When I got back on the pavement, cars were stopped on the road. Hallelujah to the solar system.
I’m going to bleach the skull bone white.
Cool find!! You're lucky to be able to ride in winter, plus find mushrooms!
So Lloyd at the risk of rudeness…. how old are you? Strikes me you are pretty fit for a guy who's been around as long as the Shelter Pub. I hope you can keep on riding and running and finding treasure and sharing it all with us. You make me realize I can do it too. I look old but I sure don't move old 😉
(and always Hallelujah to the solar system…I try to look up several times a day)
Julie,
I'm 75.
Cool!
(Makes 59 look better and better)
If you boil the skull in water with some hydrogen peroxide it'll turn a nice creamy white and be really easy to clean. Bleach damages bone. Very cool find!
That’s what I call a good day in the woods. Nice finds!