[Kbikeva]

You don’t want to miss this – not only cool socks, but riding on the BRAND NEW Rt. 7 sidepath! There are two fun routes, 27 and 16, and you’ll be finished by noon so you can do another event or get to your weekend “TODO” list.

This rides uses roads, paved trails (3 of them!) and has moderate hills. It’s truly a social and friendly ride. We’re limiting registrations to 200, so if you want to do it, you need to jump on registration. Funds a problem? No problem! Just email the supervisors office – we have a fund for that!

Part of every registration goes to fund FABB, which is the leading bike advocacy organization in Fairfax County.

What are you waiting for?

Come join us! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fourth-annual-tour-de-hunter-mill-tickets-867678147697

[Kbikeva]

@ChristinaSwartz – I never knew that a memorial for the Holodomor existed outside Ukraine! I googled it and now have the location to go see it when I return to DC. Thank you for posting this!

 

Kelley

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3/18/2024   THE LAST WORDLE OF 2024 Freezing Saddles is:

SPELT

(Bakers will know what this is)

 

[Kbikeva]

3/17/24  Happy St. Patrick’s Day

You all have really knocked our socks off today – this is still very much a wide open game!

But to be “arbitrary and capricious” as promised, we will NOT be entering today’s or tomorrow’s winners into the spreadsheet. We will announce the daily winners and overall winner at the April 10 Closing Happy Hour.

Kelley & Serdar

[Kbikeva]

3/17/24  UPDATE
<h2>March 10 – 16</h2>
March 10 – Grasp

Aaron Bikes – 2, Great photo, appropriate subject

Bikesnick – 1, Ouch! Looks like the cover has the truck in its grasp.

Cvcalhoun – 1, What a wonderful celebration of firefighters!

March 11 – Pesky

CaseyKane50 – 3, Nice composition of a seaside buffet scene!

March 12 – Heave

Boomer – 4, So much action in the heaving and defending!

March 13 – Local

Indiana – 5, A beautifully framed local denizen!

March 14 – Since

DCAKen – 6, Marilyn!

March 15 – Erupt

Drevil – 7. Time, place, and event. This would have been better only if you’d been in Iceland or Hawaii!

March 16 – Toxin

Pedrocz – 8, What a great reminder of how interrelated our many watercourses are.

Totals going into the last two days:

Leading with 22 points, drevil

Running closely behind with 20 points, aaronbikes, DCAKen, Indiana

Clearly within striking distance with 18 points, bikesnick, CaseyKane50, cvcalhoun

And with another 19 points available Sunday and Monday, any of the following could tie or win with a great photo both days:

AlanA (6)

BikingJenn (9)

Boomer (15)

Camiller (7)

CBGanimal (6)

Chill-dad (4)

ChristinaSwartz (12)

JoM (18)

Karenbikes2 (11)

LaurieE (11)

Leftylaura (10)

MTansill (13)

Nadine (9)

Pedrocz (11)

Rumipumi (4)

SophieCW(4)

SteveO (4)

[Kbikeva]

3/17/24    Happy St. Pat’s Day

Your Wordle for today is

SNORT

@Indiana, you are never annoying. 🙂

 

[Kbikeva]

@matteblack – 61 flags in 52 miles – yikes. Reaffirms – I’m done. 🙂

[Kbikeva]

@bigredboiler –  even if I were to get 12, I’d only be as far as the leaders are today (except Alan who did a bunch but I don’t know how many). Here in El Paso, it’s been really difficult to find flags. The winds here are so strong that people tend not to put out ‘frou frou’ flags, focusing on US and Texas and the Dallas Cowboys.

So, with that limitation, I’ll just enjoy my ride tomorrow and leave it to Alan to enjoy his win.

[Kbikeva]

@BigRedBoiler – I just saw the tiebreaker option. Fortunately, there’s still tomorrow. I’m WAY down in the standings so I’m unlikely to get to the top…

BUT in the spirit of the game, I might try to get as many as possible tomorrow. That said, is there still a limitation of 3 from any “one place”? And does going on a military base and riding through the various housing areas count as all one place and therefore I’m limited to 3? Or are you talking about something like Union Station’s array of flags with that rule?

[Kbikeva]

3/16/24 baubles or bubbles?

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3/26/24 UTEP (their other flag)

 

[Kbikeva]

Thanks Carol for the game. When I posted the Wordle last night I wondered why no new entry for Bingo, so morning brought me here. Good thing Nancy got the BINGO before we ran out of Freezing Saddles days!

Now I’m wondering if I should have gotten a different card each time the option arose. I’ll have to think about that until next year!

[Kbikeva]

PSA – For @drevil and @JoM

Drevil’s photo for ERUPT is clearly the winner for 3/15. However, since JoM says that he stole her idea, in the interest of maintaining matrimonial harmony, we will give Drevil the option of SHARING his points – giving them all to JoM or splitting them between the two of you.

Until/unless you tell us otherwise, the spreadsheet will say +7 for Drevil.

Before the award of 7 points:

Drevil: 15

JoM: 17

 

[Kbikeva]

03/16/2024   Your Wordle for today is

TOXIN

Don’t poison anyone.

[Kbikeva]

3/15/24  Easter Basket!

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