Yet another morning bike ride

Well, it's been about six weeks since I last rode my bike - basically since before we went to WA .

Before we went I'd been getting up at around six and setting off in the half dark before sunrise, but the change of seasons meant that I was having to leave later and later to avoid having to ride in the complete dark - outside of the main streets street lighting in Beechworth is fairly minimal.

Since we've had clock change day, sunrise has jumped back to a little after six thirty, meaning I can ride before the tradies trucks start going to jobs, not to mention commuters driving to Wangaratta or Wodonga for work.

So, on a morning threatening rain, I set off. Quite a quiet ride and I was a little slower than I had been before we went on holidays but a decent enough performance only marred by someone reversing out of their driveway without looking in front of me.

It always amazes me that you can have flashing lights on your bike and a hi-vis reflective biking jacket and yet people simply do not register that there's a bicycle coming towards them at 30km/h.

However, no harm done, they (or the autonomous crash avoidance system), did an emergency stop and I swore under my breath and did an avoidance wiggle and carried on avoiding on oncoming ute that had spotted the problem and stopped.

Other than that, I spent an afternoon prepping a backup machine to allow me to catalogue even during Friday's proposed power outage, although I still have my doubts about how successful it will be given the forecast is to be grey and overcast with the occasional shower.

I also got some gardening done, put together a couple of new, additional, compost bins, and spent some time following up on somethings I was working on before we went away on holidays...