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T<\/strong><\/span>hree days ago, I rode in bIke shorts and a t-shirt for the first time here in well over a year. I did the same thing yesterday and today and it is predicted that I can tomorrow and maybe even Tuesday as well. As temperature records are being set (the high 70’s), I am living it up in, of all places, in Ireland’s great outdoors. And \u00a0under BLUE SKIES no less!<\/div>\n

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J<\/span><\/strong>ust as the farmers here are making hay while the sun shines (above photo), I am rolling the miles on my S&B recumbent, walking Cayo (in his new umbrella covered buggy), eating meals in our garden and even planting new trees and shrubs wirh Virginia \u00a0to replace the ones killed by the 2010 winter.<\/div>\n

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T<\/span><\/strong>he above said, I am stockpiling the photos for when all returns to normal here, and the clouds return to \u00a0push the \u00a0thermometer \u00a0 back down to\u00a0between 50 – 60 degrees. And that means back \u00a0home when most \u00a0everyone is roasting, the Irish people will \u00a0be \u00a0 spending their time in what usually feels like a giant air conditioner, complete with regular doses of mist (rain). Or said another way, \u00a0I am going to make the most out of the warmth they are enjoying here before I soon put my nose back to the Greenway \u00a0grindstone.<\/div>\n

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Three days ago, I rode in bIke shorts and a t-shirt for the first time here in well over a year. I did the same thing yesterday and today and it is predicted that I can tomorrow and maybe even Tuesday as well. As temperature records are being set …<\/p>\n


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