I think I’ve got a cross bike; namely, my road bike is getting sulky because I haven’t ridden it since Thursday.

Friday I rode to Whole Foods, using the hybrid. By the time I got back home about 9:00 am, the heat index was already 100 degrees; so I decided not to go out on the road bike.

Yesterday was salvage-store-trip day; and that, again, meant using the hybrid. But not the trailer; I’ve still got lots of canned stuff! Once again, it was so hot by the time I got home that I didn’t want to go out on the road bike.

About 7 pm yesterday evening, we got a T-storm; and it rained pretty hard for a while. After such weather, I expected road surfaces (and the the levee bike path!) to be wet and mucky this morning. I didn’t feel like getting my road bike all mucked up, so I used the hybrid; it has fenders.

It was about 8:30 am when time I got going. To my surprise, surfaces were almost dry! I could have used the road bike and not gotten a wet stripe up my back.

I went up on the levee; and less than two miles from home, I saw the sky towards the West. The looks of it were rather unsettling. I saw the kind of black, low, wide band that often means bad weather. Heading back home seemed like the wise thing to do; and sure enough, before I got off the levee I began to hear thunder.

I was home shortly before 9:00 am; and within five or ten minutes the wind had risen to the “storm coming” level. A few minutes after that, it began to rain.

As of 10:00 am the rain has stopped; but I can’t be sure there isn’t more coming. Maybe I’ll appease that cross bike of mind by hooking it into the trainer and “riding” for a while. That will let me get some exercise without the nuisance of cleaning gritty mud off of my bicycl