{"id":1456,"date":"2010-08-27T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2010-08-28T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T14:33:17","slug":"a-slightly-bigger-wisconsin-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2010\/08\/27\/a-slightly-bigger-wisconsin-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slightly Bigger Wisconsin Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/46397852<\/a><\/p>\n

This morning I spent time with Jim in the garden harvesting cucumbers (for his “world-famous pickles”) and apples and potatoes for dinner tonight and tomorrow. Jim’s garden is absolutely incredible — all of it kept incredibly neat and weed-free and the plants are all hardy and healthy. The fact that Jim is a master gardener and obviously loves his plants is, no doubt, a big reason his gardens are worthy of\u00a0 a being a vactation destination. After we had our mini-harvs est, we returned to the house and made three pies and got the potatoes cleaned up for tonight. All this before lunch!<\/p>\n

After lunch, Scooter and I headed out to explore the area again. This time, we followed a route <\/a>I found on Map My Ride. Turns out Jim lives right on Red Cedar Lake — which I did not realize when I selected this route!<\/p>\n

The conditions were perfect again today. It was slightly more humid, but nothing like when we came through here on the cross country ride. There was also a wind, more than a breeze but not gale force, coming out of the south\/southwest. I really lucked out because Jim lives at the north end of the lake so I got to ride into the headwind first and finish up with a tailwind. The route was rolling and winding. The first part followed the shoreline closely and I could see the lake through the trees. It was nice to roll along with the scenery to distract me from any effort it was taking to cover the miles.<\/p>\n

As I was cruising through the twists and turns, I came around one blind turn and there about 30 feet above and directly in front of me, was an adult bald eagle. It literally took my breath away. I watched it circle slowly above me and move off to the right towards the lake. There wasn’t time to get my camera out — but I sure wish there was. It was incredible!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/46397852 This morning I spent time with Jim in the garden harvesting cucumbers (for his “world-famous pickles”) and apples and potatoes for dinner tonight and tomorrow. Jim’s garden is absolutely incredible — all of it kept incredibly neat and weed-free and the plants are all hardy and healthy. The fact that Jim is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}