It is perfect for riding. I've been ripping around on my KDX and I'm probably due for another broken limb sometime soon. We have had a long, dry summer. This lends itself to NW grown eggplant and an amazonian tomato plant (amongst other things) but also to some really dusty conditions.
That is, until three days ago, when the sky finally darkened and drizzled. Rain in Oregon, imagine that. Now that the puddles have receded into the ground and the drying action of the the first september winds have run through the forests the conditions are perfect with the mud being perfectly tacky but not too grabby.
I've graduated into fourth gear. This might not seem like a big deal to people who ride on paved roads, but the trails around here aren't really conducive to speeding along. Go too fast and you'll find yourself flying around an off camber corner and into a stump.
Some guy died at Albany SX the other day going over the whoops, a veteran rider who went to the track twice a week.
The deer have been in my garden three times now in three nights. first night was totally my fault. I left the gate open. I am an idiot. Day two the deer just jumped the gate to get into the garden. I retaliated by making the gate 7 feet tall instead of the 3 1/2 feet it was previously.
So last night I was about to go to bed reaaaaallllllyyyyy late (2:45 in the morn) and I check the security camera before I hit the sack and low and behold I see a deer on it walking next to my house. I look at the timestamp on this video and it was from 2:35... so this video is 10 minutes old and it shows me this sneaky ass deer creeping up on my house and veer off towards my garden.
I grab a flashlight and shine it toward my garden... and that's when I see these two big bright doe eyes, inside my garden, munching on my eggplant's leaves. I walk out there and the deer freaks out and tries to escape but it can't because the fence is too high, the only way out is the way in, through the gate, which I'm now standing by. So I had to open up the gate completely and walk into my garden to the deer would run out.
...and then I fixed my gate AGAIN... so hopefully this time it will work.
