Raindrops & Kittens

I wanted to go out on an "Out 'n Back" ride today, meaning to ride in one direction halfway and then come back to the start, but as soon as I started riding I felt a raindrop. I didn't think much of it because sometimes you get some dew falling off the leaves as you're passing under trees. But then I felt another, and another... which made me say "Uh, oh..." Then as quickly as it started, it stopped just as fast... and I got a hint of sunshine coming through the clouds... so I stayed out, but instead of the out'n back route I was going to do, I did loops around the 'hood.... round and round... 15.66 miles of loops... an hour of loops... no wonder I feel loopy. <rim shot>

Oh yea, I gotta tell you about the cat that's in the title up there... I was going down a hill at a good rate of speed, (btw my top speed today was only 32.2mph) when I see this cat (old kitten) crossing the street ahead of me... my brain is calculating it's rate of travel and my rate of travel and determines that the cat will be passed my line of travel before our paths would meet... so I stay the course and the speed.... don't you know the cat stops dead in its tracks and decides to stare me down... so I check behind me for any cars in case I have to take drastic actions and it's all clear... so I figure the cat is crossing the street for a reason (I know... to get to the other side) and will keep moving forward and not go back the other way, so I figure I'll ride behind her and hope for the best, because stopping was not an option, well not without swerving anyway, and possibly losing control... plus I've "Bunny-hopped" potholes bigger than a cat before, so that was an option also... anyway to make a long story shorter, we both made the right decision and we get to ride and cat-walk another day... of course the incident didn't last as long as this story did.
See y'all tomorrow.