Fires on Mill Mountain :-(

Here's the video from Roanoke Times

Here's the link to the online article.

Trials of being sick...

So. Somehow on the way back back home from the National Bike Summit, I got hit with the Crud / Flu... hard. The worst part wasn't the high temps and feeling awful or even the coughing. The worst part was getting the hiccups from how hard / deep I would cough. Sure, the old adage of drinking water from the opposite side of the cup while upside down usually works for me while just bending over. Not this time. Extreme measures had to be taken. Due to general weakness, standing on my head could only be achieved twice. After that, Kristin suggested, and I acted to hang from the ladder to the loft. It worked! On my way back right side up, though, I smacked my head on our hook sticks, popped a lense out of my glasses frames, and got a small cut over my right eye. My hiccups were gone, though.... for about another 30 minutes anyway.