Losing our geese is always a bad thing, and it has happened on every trip to some degree.   Here is a proposed geese herding aid that will allow you to know where your geese are (if you are inside tower service that is).  

It is a phone app called Life360      https://www.life360.com/    the premise is that one person downloads it, cranks up a group and invites the other riders to join in the group.   Once a group code is assigned, all the players download the app and plug in the code to join -- wammo, they all show up in the app map located spatially relative to each other.  

Everybody gets the location display that includes the whole group.  Everybody can see, including the lost goose.   This would be the cat's meow if somebody had a breakdown or, heaven forbid, somebody actually went off into the bushes in a non-obvious fashion.    Or parked on the wrong side of the knife store and got everything turned around accordingly.

It can do group messaging and similar teenager techi stuff, but the fact is that it will always have a named dot for each of your ride participants and as ride leader you can herd your group of errant geese a lot easier by using it when you come up short a head -- you can see where they are easy peasy.

Then when the trip is done, everybody deletes the app.   Neat and clean, that.

Funny thing, we lose more people at pit stops and in the towns than we do out in the boonies.   More traffic lights and turns available, I guess.

I just looked at my calendar .

I've got to cut hay next week so I can go ridding the next week !  

kind of snuck up on me ...  

Lancer , if your reading ,    I've got to cut hay Monday (if no rain) and maybe  Tuesday (a little)

If its hot in the area , then a trip to Mitchell might feel GOOD !  

Long as the weather stays sunny from 5th to the 9th, I should be able to leave the 12th.  

MMRanch wrote on 06/02/17 at 08:42:42:




   

Or, you Could get a gallon o gas and a match,,,, and just Look at the work you could dodge...

Hominy acres? You doing round bales?

Well the weather forecast has added the words "Thunderstorm Possible" into the daily forecast - unfortunately that is always a possibility in the area just about every day in June.  The heat and humidity always makes for the potential for afternoon rain events - so far the forecast is still as cheery as June can allow.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/stecoah-township-nc/28771/month/2095926?mony...

I went on a 100 mile ride yesterday to check out the Savage and make sure it is ready....and changed the oil when I got home.  It seems up to the trip, and I plan on doing some riding over the next week so I can get my buns ready for all day rides!

I also ordered a new front tire of the Ninja just in case the weather forecast turns bad and I bring it for wet weather riding.  For some reason I wore the edges of the Bridgestone BT45 tire out on the little Ninja far faster than the back tire (weird).....I ordered a Pirelli Sport Demon and I will see how it wears (there aren't many tires tire choices for the small Ninja).  

Sounds like a plan, Dave.   I think we are swinging more and more towards flexibility as we get further along.   I will pack my 2 man tent also, just in case of ......

   .......  any sweet little surprises that come popping up.

Dave, I am sorry your Lilly puppy caused your wife to take a spill on the concrete.   I can certainly sympathize as it was my 50+ pounder puppy jumping up on the bed and landing on my knee instead that got my right knee messed up as it is currently (it is healing slowly).   They don't mean to do it, and as we get older having big pets might make for an issue for us occasionally.

MM, how is that hay bailing going?   Be careful my friend .....