What a wonderful beautiful day it is here in Eugene. The temperature is 80 degrees the backyard chickens are happy and the kids are entertaining themselves, what more could a guy ask for. We had friends stop by that we hadn't seen in over a year; they had come down to attend the Oregon country fair then they are traveling down to the redwoods in Northern California for a few days.

I think I will take the bike out for a nice ride; I have been trying to get riding in every couple of days. I'm trying to get into some kind of shape, when you get into you 40s you start to realize that you might want to live a bit longer and your not going to get there is you are a couch potato, not that I was before but I was feeling like I needed to get into some sort of shape. I usually take a good hard 1 hour trip and get good a sweaty. They have some wonderful bike paths here and it's a real treat to get out and see the sites. The bike path follows the Willamette river and there are gardens and wildlife to see along the way. If you have never seen a Nutria begging for bread crumbs next to the geese you are really missing out There are also families, bicycle pants wanna be racers, and homeless folks too.

No rants today, time to go enjoy the day!