Spurgeon, Sunrise, Slides, Snake, Singletrack

Nice almost sunrise - is that lens dirty?

Took the LenzSport MilkMoney SS out for its first ride from home to Deer Creek Canyon OSP this morning.

Listened to some sermons by Charles Spurgeon this morning that he preached in May of 1858. Heard these via podcast from Librivox - nice.

'He who keeps short accounts keeps long friends.' That is, he who forgives and bears all as our Lord Christ has shown us will not be without companions. I think this can apply internally as well as we allow the sacrifice of Christ to cleanse our conscious from guilt we can dwell with ourselves without loathing the sin that sometimes binds us.

Took a few falls today - that is not very characteristic of me - not that I am all that great - just usually able to push right up to my limits - must be the new bike ;-)

Snakes, err Snake Alive! At about 6:00am I jumped over this big rattler as he lay coiled up on the trail. He was a rattling!

I was very surprised at seeing him this early in the morning especially since I had not 20 yards earlier gone careening on my back through meadow during the second of 2 crashes and spent some time wandering in the weeds looking for a knife that I lost in the process.

New Single Track. Accidentally found a little slice of trail that cuts out about a mile off the pavement on this ride - I like that a lot.