Another early morning bike ride

 Today was promising to be another hot day, so I was up and off before the sun came up for a ride round my little circuit.

Again I had my lights on, and in the process discovered what the little red led on my front light meant - that the battery was getting low.

I've never been a serious after dark rider, the one time I regularly rode after dark was when we first moved to Canberra, and tried to be both environmental and economical by only having one car between us.

Being Canberra, most of my ride in to work was along unlit and not particularly well maintained bike paths, and when riding after dark it was more a case of needing a heavy duty lamp to see the track and scare wildlife, rather than alert cars and trucks to your existence.

I didn't ride all the time, fortunately the number 217 direct bus (as was) to the CBD used to run past our house, meaning I could wimp out if it was wet, cold, or if it was a day when I needed business attire.

In those days LED lights were not a thing and the best choice for trail riding was a halogen light and you lived with it chewing batteries for breakfast.

In the event my front light dying on me didn't matter, the sun had come up sufficiently by the time my front light gave up the ghost, and anyway,  amazingly the old halogen Cat Eye light that I used when I used to ride home from work in Canberra, and had never got around to taking off my bike, still had some charge left in the battery despite not having been used for nearly twenty years.

However, I had an excellent ride, shaving five minutes off my recent average, swooshing along under trees and being rewarded with a wonderful orange red sunrise.

Everything was dry as the proverbial dead dingo, and later, I went down to OfficeWorks in Wangarratta to collect a new printer I was amazed just how dry, tawny dry, everything was. Not a spot of green to be seen.

It's obvious why we've been having continual fire ban warnings, one spark and these paddocks would catch light.

Basically, we need a day or two of soaking rain...