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Title: Friday evening with the Dog
Post by: Big Dog on June 30, 2012, 12:18:48 AM
How much fun can one man have by himself? Don't answer that, Gina    :lmao:

I took off from work early today for a ride in the country and to go to an old-timey music jam about a hundred miles away. Cottonwood Falls is a quiet little town in the Flint Hills of central Kansas, home of some of the best riding in the Midwest. A little roadhouse sponsors live acoustic music on Friday evenings during the summer; one week is bluegrass, the next is old-time rock and roll, and this week was old-timey and cowboy music.

Today was a hot one; literally 103 in the shade, but it was perfect for an evening ride.

The cafe had catfish and chicken fried steak specials- real roadhouse food! The waitress  recommended the catfish, and I was glad she did. A Mason jar of iced tea washed it all down. But the best part was the dessert special- blackberry pie with ice cream!

(http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/s511/electstevedawes/Loose%20ends/Photo015.jpg)

The music was lots of fun; local musicians and cowboy poets, with fiddle, guitar, banjo, string bass, harmonicas and washboard. Real toe-tapping, sing-along stuff. I was surprised by how many songs I knew, but I wasn't surprised by my awful singing voice.

I left just before sunset and rode north, listening to Allison Krauss. The setting sun turned the sky a dusty red, and the red sky silhouetted ranch gates, old schools and churches.

(http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/s511/electstevedawes/Loose%20ends/Photo017.jpg)

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I turned onto Kansas Highway 57 and took the twisties. Kansas is not flat, no matter what you may have heard, and a hundred years ago those roads were built around hills instead of through them. I rode a steady 60 mph through the curves, slowing down only once, when I saw a big buck crossing the road right after sunset. He went his way, and I went mine.

And what made this ride the best ever?  Bacon, of course!

(http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/s511/electstevedawes/Loose%20ends/Photo021.jpg)

Sorry, no boobiez (http://vapersforum.com/images/smilies/character-emoticon-0004.gif) or beer  :cheersmate: today.

Riding north tomorrow, about 8 hours in the saddle.
Title: Re: Friday evening with the Dog
Post by: Bad Dog on June 30, 2012, 12:30:57 AM
Nice to see you have time to lollygag around.  Not like you have a OS story to finish or anything.
Title: Re: Friday evening with the Dog
Post by: Big Dog on June 30, 2012, 06:09:30 AM
Nice to see you have time to lollygag around.  Not like you have a OS story to finish or anything.

Patience, fellow Dog. There is much to come in Omaha Steve's Terrible, Horrible, No Good Summer!
Title: Re: Friday evening with the Dog
Post by: IassaFTots on June 30, 2012, 07:08:38 AM
Thanks for the pictorial.  A little lollygagging is necessary every once in a while.
Title: Re: Friday evening with the Dog
Post by: Rick on June 30, 2012, 01:34:02 PM
Thanks for answering a question that has bothered me for years - Is Kansas really black and white.