Rainy night in Louisiana

During the night a violent T-storm struck: big rain, lightening close by, not much thunder. Left weather radio turned on set to alarm. Woke to alarm noise announcing tornado warning but not for Lincoln parish. Listened to rain pound on roof. And then it quit.

Hard rain means trails will be closed. Forecast calls for more T-storms with drying on Sunday.

Setting up appointment @ Sportsmobile in Austin for this Tuesday for battery install. Planning around the date. I have ride possibilities on way or @ Austin. Still cogitating.

Beth Thames article printed in the Huntsville paper:

http://www.al.com/living/huntsvilletimes/bthames.ssf?/base/living/1237713384176150.xml&coll=1#continue

Visited w/ James Ramsaur, park director, trail builder, mtn bike promoter, growing the pie person. His Lincoln Parish trail has been written up several times in MBA, one time as the best trail in the state. Great guy  & interesting.

More later.

Later:

As I remember the flutterings I felt in my chest that I freaked on occured right after for me a brutal ride @ Monte Sano with Freddy and Chad. They were pedaling along talking but I was really pushing it to just see them. No warm up, just drop the gears & hammer. I figured that my heart didn’t eplode or seize up that these flutters would go away. Last night they were the strongest yet so I resigned myself to finally learn the mediacl reason and hope, just hope that the heart wasn’t the problem. I was directed to a private practice DR. I told his nurse that I saw an armadillo and she said she shot one last night. I asked w/ what and she said 12 guage that is kept in a cabinet by front door. She hunts geese w/ it. And then she shaved patches on my chest for the ekg stickies. The young DR read the graph and said my heart is right down the middle. His answer: acid reflux causing the esophagus to spasm and is felt right at the heart. I am back on proton pump inhibitors for 2 weeks to calm the reflux.

Sunny day and h2o evaporated but not fast or complete enough for the trails to be opened. James let me stay a second night for yesterday’s work. Clouds dropped late in afternoon and after dark another t-storm. Darn. Trails can be closed after rain.

Park has small lake in it. Today there were several fisherman tempting the fish. I visited w/ a maybe teenager spin casting for large mouth bass. He called me Sir frequently. Well mannered & I learned about fishing and crayfish burrows that can show up above h2o line.

Bought a pound of boiled crayfish. No big deal just like baby lobster: you break the tail from the body, break the shell away from the tail, & squeeze the meat from the tail. Like shrimp. Could eat pounds of them.

Spoke w/ Sportsmobile about my battery addition & learned way lot about batteries. Solar power charger means almost always having a complete charge on the battery. Might be something to step up to.