The GG has taken a couple quick trips in the last six months or so. Otherwise we have had a LOT of togetherness lately. He was dead set to go to the yooperland a few weeks ago and then the yoop had a bomb cyclone event featuring snow. I actually said, “DON’T GO!” He didn’t. He did drive (on dry roads) west a bit to help build an elevated walkway aka bridge. That was a day trip albeit a FUN one.

So I am left here with Webster. Will he keep me warm at night? Actually it’s always been me who keeps other people warm at night. I didn’t have hot flashes much (TMI?), just that I run a little hot in general. Most of the time. It turned out that one of the beach urchins needed a Webster and we had TWO. So she took one of them.

Somebody got a GREAT pic of the racc (in cool sunglasses) with me in the background looking old and baggy but not terribly fugly. I’m not gonna post it because the only living people I post pics of are the GG and sometimes his ugly brother (i.e., ID twin). I mean, I do sometimes post OLD pics of living people.

So, what did you do today, KW? I I went to the grock store and did a couple other small errands and worked on de-cluttering the Landfill Chitchen. I took Cygnus out in the country…

…and I maybe broke a law. I took Miller to get home. I hung a louie off Miller into the neighborhood so I could get across to Dexter (don’t ask if you are not from The Planet Ann Arbor). In the process, I crossed the new (this summer) dedicated bike lanes to make my turn. There were bikes coming toward me from the other direction. The were much slower than I was and so I turned in front of them. Afterwards, I had second thoughts about that. Should I have waited (with my turn signal on) for them to continue? Probably. When I’m trying to make a left turn and there are automotive vee-hickles coming toward me, I gauge their speed and cross when it seems safe.

I am all for safe bike lanes. In this part of town, bike riders could take neighborhood streets to get downtown (a friend of mine did that for decades) but that’s a whole ‘nother story. I think next time this happens I will be more aware and wait for the bikes to go by before I cross. But this is all new and there are there are all kinds of new “things” in the street (speed bumps and yellow sticks) that drivers who have been traversing Miller since forever might not be able to process immediately. I will figure it out. The folks here on The Planet who are still able to drive but aging out of it probably won’t be able to manage it. The Commander wouldn’t have been able to. Although kudos to her for figuring out the bus system to get downtown when she was here visiting and helping us with her young granddaughters.

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