My aunt passed away at age 91. I didn't want to rush home to rush to the ride after going to her funeral in northern North Dakota so I left regrets on the ride's FB page and entered the LaVeta ride for following weekend. I would have entered BC on Friday to reduce # of bikers met on trail and been on trail in a good thunderstorm if my plans had not been disrupted so I am content with getting some visiting in after the funeral. But there are not many people dad knows left in that area. We visited some old neighbors from when dad worked on a ranch down in the sw corner of state for a day after returning to sis's place. I am trying to nudge dad to replace some windows in the house she rents. I feel like I have to just give a gentle nudge and let him decide or he will reflexively dig in his heels at being forced. He tends to think "she is getting the place in my will, I don't have to do full landlord maintenance." But he is still getting rent and can afford to make the needed repairs much better than she can.
Her SO got her into thinking they need to keep having a new p/u every few years. That was not too bad when he was also earning decent money but with his back problems and then getting his wrist wrecked helping a friend move cows; they are more owned by the pickups than vice versa. But I don't want to lecture them. Heck I enjoyed having her luxurious p/u when we took the trip to Texas. But we would have been fine in my older pickup; it is not uncomfortable.
I am trying to decide if it will be a waste of time to spray burrs today. There are so many that came up after I had gotten the pens all cleared by the end of June, sighhh. But I really want to knock them out. I'm even thinking I should plan to ride early next year then have a planned lull in competition and do a bunch of spraying in June next year.
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