What a Miserable Windy Sunday for Father's Day

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Yesterday started out as a beautiful sunny day fit for any Father, with a bit of blue haze from the AZ forest fires way off to the West.  By the time we got out of Church at 1:00 PM, the wind was howling and the dust was so thick you could hardly see any AZ forest fire smoke.  There's a Baptist Church along NM 344 just north of Edgewood that has an annual Father's Day Car Show so we ventured over there to look at the cars, old and new, hotrods and stocks.  There was a huge crowd there, with TWO NM State Police officers directing traffic in and out of the dirt parking lots.  Hundreds of people and hundreds of cars of all shapes and sizes.  It would have been wonderful but (1) I had no hat to protect my thick skull from baking and (2) after a few minutes of eating the blowing dirt, my eyes plugged up so bad I could hardly see, and the billowing dust and wind made it absolutely miserable.  So we made only a quick round trip walking through the first row of cars encircling the building and fought the wind back across the paved road and left.  I still feel like I have dust in my orifices, 24 hours and a couple showers later.  Then the wind howled and rattled the house unmercifully all afternoon and late into the night.  All my kids called or emailed or txted or facebooked me wishing me a Happy Father's Day, and Jake and Stacey came out later in the afternoon just before dark and spent a few noisy fun hours with us.
This morning I was shocked how COLD it was:  58 degrees outside at home, and it felt downright chilly inside the house.  About midnight or so it was howling up a raging blow when suddenly it began to rain.... splattered for maybe 5 minutes and then the weather calmed down.  Grateful for the wind stopping but not the rain, we are dogin to die if we don't get more and soon.  But the momentary rain must have cooled things down even though it didn't exactly wet things down.
So, here in late June, I had to wear a windbreaker to ride the bike because the breeze was COLD.  Of course by the time I got to the last mile of the commute I had to stop and peel it off because I was overheating, but it was great to have on the outerwear until then.  By Golly

Awakening BG:  118                              Post-Ride BG:  94

Morning Stats from the GPS:                 Total Miles:  7.45

Overall average speed      Moving Avg         Max Speed
10.2  Mph                          11.5 mph             20.7 mph
Total Trip time                   Moving Time       Stopped Time
44:00 mins                          38:54 mins           05:06 mins

The ride back to the carrito was again marred by fairly stiff wind..... that actually turned into a bit of a cross-tail-wind once I turned south coming out of Balloon Fiesta Park. YAY
Beginning BG:  102                              Post-Ride BG:  135
Evening Stats from the GPS:                 Total Miles:  7.44
Overall average speed      Moving Avg         Max Speed
10.3  Mph                          12.0 mph             24.4  mph
Total Trip time                   Moving Time       Stopped Time
43:14 mins                        37:06 mins            06:08 mins    

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