August 3, 2007
Weather? What weather? The sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky, no wind . . there ain't no "weather" to deal with, so let's go riding!
Packed a ham-n-cheese sandwich and a bottle of water, the little digi-camera,
and off I go.
After a frustrating stop at the Chattanooga P.D. in an attempt to be an
upright citizen and turn in a report of "suspicious activity"
in our neighborhood (they don't have any facility for handling nicely
written reports, you have to call 'em in from home...) I stopped at one
of the many Civil War sites along Missionary Ridge's South Crest Drive
to eat.
What ho! no tables, and only one raggedy bench, covered with a nice uniform layer of dirt (obviously intentional.) Ah well, the big C.W. park is only a few miles farther!
So I ride to the "big" Chickamauga Battlefield National Park, some 6 or 7 miles south; and what do I find? STILL no picnic tables or benches! O.K.-- here's a shady spot in a "no traffic" marked zone.
Maybe I look a little peeved in the photo; actually I was only squinting to see if the little indicator light on the camera was blinking . . . it obviously wasn't - it had already taken the picture! Sigh.
This picture reminds me -- I have to lose ten or fifteen pounds.