[OrRando] Dec 1

[Jim Bronson]

Well I can't blame you for not missing it if you had the misfortune of
living in the DFW or Houston areas :-)

(with apologies to my Lone Star Randonneurs and Houston Randonneurs friends)

On Dec 3, 2007 1:10 AM, Lynne Fitzsimmons <fitzbase at comcast.net> wrote:
> You can tell many of us are sitting around going stir crazy :-)
> Lynne "formerly a Texan, and I do not miss it much" F
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Bronson" <jim.bronson at gmail.com>
> To: "Oregon area Randonneurs" <orrando at tire.patch.com>
>
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [OrRando] Dec 1
>
>
> >I would really like to have a summer house back in Oregon personally!
> > But 8 or 9 months of the year the weather is great here.  May and
> > September can go either way (warm or hot) but usually not both.
> >
> >
> > On 12/1/07, Rickey Smith <rickeylsmith at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Maybe its time to retire and move to Texas. 70 degrees
> >> today in Arlington where its looking good for me to
> >> head to next.
> >> --- Ray Ogilvie <Lochmond at msn.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > It started snowing at my house at 8:00 am.
> >> > We are at 1,300 ft.
> >> > Never got out of the 30's all day.
> >> > I did some mechanical on my bike
> >> > and then gassed and oiled up the the generator
> >> > to prepare for the "monster" winds they say
> >> > may be coming.
> >> >
> >> > Got about 3" of snow on the ground now. Still
> >> > falling.
> >> > Might get out the fat tire bike in the morning.
> >> >
> >> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >> >   From: Lynne
> >> > Fitzsimmons<mailto:fitzbase at comcast.net>
> >> >   To: Oregon area
> >> > Randonneurs<mailto:orrando at tire.patch.com>
> >> >   Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:36 PM
> >> >   Subject: Re: [OrRando] Dec 1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   I elected to sleep in and skip riding entirely.
> >> > Possibly the first weekend
> >> >   I haven't ridden since last March?  Oh well, there
> >> > is still tomorrow.  Not
> >> >   looking good, though.
> >> >
> >> >   Glad to hear you are riding, Cecil!  How does the
> >> > leg feel?
> >> >
> >> >   Hey, I commuted to work all week :-)
> >> >   Lynne F
> >> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >> >   From:
> >> >
> >> <cecilanne at comcast.net<mailto:cecilanne at comcast.net>>
> >> >   To: "Susan France"
> >> >
> >> <susanfrance at teleport.com<mailto:susanfrance at teleport.com>>;
> >> > "Oregon area Randonneurs"
> >> >
> >> >
> >> <orrando at tire.patch.com<mailto:orrando at tire.patch.com>>
> >> >   Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 1:50 PM
> >> >   Subject: Re: [OrRando] Dec 1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   >I went for a short, flat ride on the Springwater
> >> > Corridor - in Gresham I
> >> >   >got some pretty good-sized flakes falling, but no
> >> > accumulation, and even
> >> >   >that stopped by the time I got down to the
> >> > Milwaukie area.  It was pretty
> >> >   >out, though.  I wouldn't have wanted to be doing
> >> > a perm, though (even if my
> >> >   >leg were up to it) - after two hours my fingers
> >> > were frozen . . . .
> >> >   >
> >> >   > Cecil
> >> >   >
> >> >   > -------------- Original message
> >> > ----------------------
> >> >   > From: Susan France
> >> >
> >> <susanfrance at teleport.com<mailto:susanfrance at teleport.com>>
> >> >   >> Yeh, well it will be in the 70s here in about 6
> >> > months. I had 3 riders
> >> >   >> signed up
> >> >   >> for perms today. I hope they decided to
> >> > postpone due to the weather. I
> >> >   >> did a
> >> >   >> short ride near home (gravel & lightly
> >> > traveled) I took off in "light
> >> >   >> snow
> >> >   >> flurries" after 1/2 hr there was enough snow on
> >> > top of freezing tracks to
> >> >   >> make
> >> >   >> the return a very slow, cautious downhill. Snow
> >> > isn't so bad. Snow at 32
> >> >   >> degrees
> >> >   >> makes me think about broken bones.
> >> >   >> Susan.
> >> >   >>
> >> >   >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >   >> >From: Jim Bronson
> >> >
> >> <jim.bronson at gmail.com<mailto:jim.bronson at gmail.com>>
> >> >   >> >Sent: Nov 30, 2007 8:04 AM
> >> >   >> >To: Oregon area Randonneurs
> >> >
> >> <orrando at tire.patch.com<mailto:orrando at tire.patch.com>>
> >> >   >> >Subject: Re: [OrRando] Dec 1
> >> >   >> >
> >> >   >> >We are having a 200K down here in Austin this
> >> > weekend, expected high
> >> >   >> >temp is in the lower 70s with a chance of some
> >> > warm sprinkles (the
> >> >   >> >wind is off the gulf).  You're welcome to join
> >> > us ;-)
> >> >   >> >
> >> >   >> >On Nov 29, 2007 8:22 PM, Rickey Smith
> >> >
> >> <rickeylsmith at yahoo.com<mailto:rickeylsmith at yahoo.com>>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >   >> >> Due to bad weather conditions on Saturday. I
> >> > wont be
> >> >   >> >> doing the 200k Vernonia Astoria Vernonia.
> >> >   >> >>
> >> >   >> >>      If you are riding through HELL keep
> >> > pedaling.
> >> >   >> >>    Rickey L Smith
> >> >   >> >>
> >> >   >> >>
> >> >   >> >>
> >> >   >> >>
> >> >   >>
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> >>       If you are riding through HELL keep pedaling.
> >>     Rickey L Smith
> >>
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