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Day three of the new, blue me. My morning after look:

The hair is more awful than the bruises

Jumped on the road bike to accompany Charlie on our spring Hunt For Violets ride along Bo-Fax road.

Confident he’d catch me, I left while he was helmet & jacket faffing. Alone on the climb, my nares opened for the first time and I caught a whiff of the white roses growing along someone’s fence.
Ecstasy!
Now, if the nose can stay open until I get home, I’ll have an appetite.

He caught me when I was capturing the Dog-tooth violets that  cover the red sandstone embankments after mile #3.68:

CC rode further, to the Bolinas ridgetop. I was running on fumes since I don’t eat when I can’t taste food.    But I zipped back, tore open some of the dumpster creams I’d been hoarding, with the purchased gelatin (Knox product probably never gets tossed, or so rarely I’ve never found it, so I have fallen off the Never Buy Food Wagon–the last time I did it was for lovely, rare Wasa flatbread, which I’m almost sure is to be discontinued. It’s just too damn healthy to be a true snack food. I wrote them and said I’d like them to consider sponsoring my singlespeed obsession. Hah).

Digressions, my forte.

And after I made some nice panna cotta with the aforementioned Knox gel and cream and grated palm sugar and uh, I guess this should be in “Salivation Army”, huh? I have never figured out how to transfer a written thing, maybe now’s the time, eh?

Argh.

Here’s me after my ride:

Helmets always improve my unusual, 3-cowlick mane

Oh, and lovely neighbor Sheila S. dropped off a weeks supply (well, for me a couple days) supply of homemade chicken and rice soup. Hot. I guzzled. I could taste it. Heaven.

~ by jacquiephelan on April 20, 2011.

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