I'm stuck at home this morning thanks to my brakes on the Jeep and their inability to stop the damn thing. I discovered this about half way home from work yesterday. I was able to limp home with the emergency brake. One of the calipers is leaking fluid. Hopefully I'll have that fixed later today. I snapped the photo this morning when I let Maggie out. Maybe I'll work outside today...
I managed to get about 4 miles of paddling in after work and still make it back to Raleigh to see Mike Dillon's GoGo Jungle. They played a great show in spite of Raleigh's lack of the know.
So you know... Mike Dillon (on the right) is also a member of the Seattle-based Critters Buggin and has performed with many musicians, most notably Les Claypool's Frog Brigade and Fancy Band, Hairy Apes BMX, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Stanton Moore, Garage A Trois, Malachy Papers, Ani DiFranco, Marco Benevento, Reed Mathis and New Orlean's musicians Kevin O'Day, Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton. Dillon also performed in the late 80's/early 90's with local Dallas and Denton favorites Ten Hands and in the mid-90's with Dallas/Kansas City-based Billy Goat. Link to more photos
I've been lucky enough to paddle on the water for three days in a row. Yesterday was an experiment in how much time I could spend on the water after work. I paddled four miles in about an hour and still had a good 30 minutes of daylight left. It definitely beats the same time on the couch, and certainly beats any time in a gym or on a treadmill. I'm going to try to spend some time on the water every day. Call it my Monday resolution.
The weather was really nice this weekend. I traded in my couch for the kayak Saturday and Sunday. I brought the flyrod along, but I didn't do much fishing. Our weather here is supposed to be the same all week, so hopefully I can squeeze in a coulple hours of paddling after work every day this week.
One last porch moment from weird weather Sunday. Some days it's good to just relax on my porch and take in the scenery. The yard was soaked from lots of rain. Maggie was kicking up a nice mud rooster tail as she chased the ball.
This photo was taken the same day as the clouds and the panorama. At one point we were under a thunderstorm warning, flash flood warning, tornado watch, and a wind advisory. At times it seemed nice enough to go paddle on the lake, but things changed quickly. About an hour after this photo, the temperature dropped 12 degrees and the wind started howling.
