happy birthday fat-tire.net. Happy Memorial Day

I put up fat-tire.net on year ago today. One year later, in a few days, I am putting up myfamilybenefits for the state. test version MyFamilyBenefits was put up last week.

May as well post June rides. It's hot out there.(in Phoenix)

Day	Monday, May 31, 2010	Tuesday, June 01, 2010	Wednesday, June 02, 2010	Thursday, June 03, 2010	Friday, June 04, 2010	Saturday, June 05, 2010	Sunday, June 06, 2010
Forcast High Fahrenheit	100	96	95	99	102	105	107
Forcast Low Fahrenheit	70	66	67	70	74	75	75
Forcast High Celcius	38	36	35	37	39	41	42
Forcast Low Celcius	21	19	19	21	23	24	24
Conditions	Mostly Cloudy	Thunder Storms	Partly Cloudy	Mostly Cloudy	Partly Cloudy	N/A	N/A

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Jun

Trail	Area	State	Effort	skill	Primo
Verde Hot Springs	Camp Verde	Arizona	Long Ride	Advanced
Pinery Canyon Loop	Chiracahua	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Silver Peak Loop	Chiracahua	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
WhiteTail Creek	Chiracahua	Arizona	Tough	intermediate
Mingus Mountain	Cottonwood - Jerome	Arizona	All Downhill	XX Expert
Around the Peaks (cosmic soulstice race loop)	Flagstaff	Arizona	Fairly Tough	Beginner
AZ trail to Walnut Canyon	Flagstaff	Arizona	Hard Ride	advanced
Dry lake hills loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Hard Work	Expert
Elden Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Biblical	Expert
Fisher Point	Flagstaff	Arizona	Comfortable	Beginner
Lava Cave and Wing Mtn	Flagstaff	Arizona	Easy	Intermediate
Little Bear Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Serious Climb	Advanced
Lower Oldham trails	Flagstaff	Arizona	No Sweat	Beginner
Nordic Center	Flagstaff	Arizona	Easy to Medium	Beginner
Observatory Mesa	Flagstaff	Arizona	Weenie ride	Beginner
Rocky Ridge Trail	Flagstaff	Arizona	Hard fun work	Expert
Soldiers Trail Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Sunset Trail Loop	Flagstaff	Arizona	Long Climb	Expert
Upper Oldham trails	Flagstaff	Arizona	Heinous climb	Expert
Waterline Road	Flagstaff	Arizona	Long Climb	Advanced
Flag to Grand Canyon	Flagstaff - Grand Canyon	Arizona	Long Easy Ride	Beginner
Flagstaff to Sedona	Flagstaff - Sedona	Arizona	long ride	Advanced
Six Shooter Canyon	Globe	Arizona	no whiners	XX Expert
Crazy Jug Point	Grand Canyon	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Pt. Sublime	Grand Canyon	Arizona	Very Long Ride	Beginner
Rainbow Rim	Grand Canyon	Arizona	hard work	Beginner
Tiyo Point	Grand Canyon	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Greene Haven Slickrock	Greene Haven	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Arizona Trail	Jacob Lake to Patagonia	Arizona	Long ride	Expert
Badger Trail	Kingman	Arizona	difficult	Advanced
Camp Beale Loop	Kingman	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Moss Wash Mines	Kingman	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Slaughterhouse Canyon	Kingman	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Valley Drive	Monument Valley	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Page rimview trail	Page	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Patagonia Ghost towns loop	Patagonia	Arizona	long ride	Novice
260 loop - HiLine Trail	Payson	Arizona	tough	Advanced
Cypress Thicket	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Doll Baby Ranch	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
El Oso rd	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Houston Mesa	Payson	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Little Pine Flat	Payson	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
mt peely road	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Rock Creek	Payson	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Slate Creek Divide	Payson	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Willow Springs Lake	Payson - Heber	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
Strawberry Mtn	Payson - Pine	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
National Trail - south mountain	Phoenix	Arizona	severe	Expert
Papago Park	Phoenix	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Devils Hole	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
hombolt mtn	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	difficult	Intermediate
new River Headwaters	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
New River Mesa	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	easy	Beginner
New River West	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	moderate	advanced
Sheep Bridge	Phoenix - Carefree	Arizona	moderate	Intermediate
four peaks	Phoenix - Mesa	Arizona	tough	Intermediate
Granite Basin Loops	Prescott	Arizona	easy to difficult	Advanced
Lynx Lake Loop	Prescott	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Peavine trail	Prescott	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Spruce Mtn	Prescott	Arizona	what goes up	Advanced
Thumb Butte Loops	Prescott	Arizona	nothing too tough	All levels
White Rock loop trails	Prescott	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Wolf Creek Loop	Prescott	Arizona	Fairly Easy	Beginner
Yankee Doodle trail	Prescott	Arizona	Tough	Advanced
Cunningham and Grant Hill Loops	Safford - Mt. Graham	Arizona	High Altitude work	Intermediate
Airport Mesa Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Pretty tough	XXX Expert
Bell Rock Loops	Sedona	Arizona	fairly easy	Beginner
Cathederal Rock Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Moderate	Advanced
CocksCOMB LOOP	Sedona	Arizona	medium work	Beginner
Deadmans Pass Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Huckaby Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Hard	Expert
Llama Trail Loop	Sedona	Arizona	Hard	Expert
Robbers Roost	Sedona	Arizona	easy as pie	Beginner
schnebly hill trails	Sedona	Arizona	a good sweat	Intermediate
Secret Trails	Sedona	Arizona	tough	Advanced
Brown Canyon Loop	Sierra Vista	Arizona	moderate	Beginner
Carr Canyon Loop	Sierra Vista	Arizona	Fairly tough	Advanced
50 Year trail (the chutes)	Tucson	Arizona	A good sweat	Advanced
Butterfly Trail	Tucson	Arizona	hard work	Expert
Crystal Spring Trail	Tucson	Arizona	fairly hard	Advanced
Samaniego Ridge	Tucson	Arizona	Long Hard Ride	Advanced
Tucson Mnts	Tucson	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Kentucky Camp Ghost Town	Tucson - Sonoita	Arizona	High Altitude work	Advanced
Blue Ridge Trail #107	White Mtns	Arizona	Advanced	Advanced
Country Club Trail #632	White Mtns	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Country Club/Los Burros Connector Trail #631A	White Mtns	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
Hannigan Meadow	White Mtns	Arizona	Easy	Beginner
Ice Cave Trail #608 ( Blue Ridge Cave Trail)	White Mtns	Arizona	moderate	advanced
Panorama Trail #635 ( Porter Mountain Trail)	White Mtns	Arizona	Moderate	Intermediate
South Fork Trail	White Mtns	Arizona	Tough	Advanced
Sunrise ski resort	White Mtns	Arizona		NULL
Timber Mesa Trail #636	White Mtns	Arizona	moderate	Advanced
Luna Lake Upper Loop	White Mtns - Alpine	Arizona	easy	Beginner
Terry Flat Loop	White Mtns - Alpine	Arizona	Moderate	Beginner
Los Burros loop 631	White Mtns - Show Low	Arizona	not too tough	intermdiate
Bill Williams Mountain	Williams	Arizona	Not too tough	Intermediate
Sucamore Rim Loop	Williams	Arizona	not for wimps	Intermediate
Lower Rock Creek Trail	Bishop	California	Moderate	Advanced
Gabrielino Trail	Los Angeles	California	moderate	Advanced
Florida Canyon	San Diego	California	Easy	Beginner
Miners Ridge Trail	San Diego	California	Good Workout	Intermediate
Sun Devil way	San Diego	California	good workout	all levels
Anderson truck trail	San Diego - Alpine	California	Tough	Expert
Munro trail	Lanai	Hawaii	tough	intermediate
Secret Trails	Maui	Hawaii	moderate	Intermediate
Mt Haleakala	Maui - Kula Forrest preserve	Hawaii	Tough	Expert
Aiea Loop	Oahu	Hawaii	Moderate	Intermediate
Kaaawa Valley	Oahu	Hawaii	Moderate	Beginner
Maunawili Trail	Oahu	Hawaii	moderate	advanced
Canfield mtn	Coeur d alene	Idaho	Fairly Easy	Intermediate
Silver Mountain - Jack Ass	Kellogg	Idaho	downhill	expert
Fischer Creek Trail	Stanley	Idaho	Fairly Tough	Intermediate
Bad Tom / Cranky Gulch	Wallace	Idaho	?	?
Route of Hiawatha - Lookout pass ski resort	Wallace	Idaho	moderate	Beginner
Upper Glidden Lake	Wallace	Idaho	?	?
B & A trail	Baltimore - Annapolis	MD	Easy	Beginner
Lake Tahoe Rim Trail - Flume trail section	Lake Tahoe	Nevada	tough	Advanced
Windsor Trail;	Sante Fe	New Mexico
Amole Canyon	Taos	New Mexico	Easy	Beginner
Thun trail	Birdsboro - Pottstown	Penns	Easy	Beginner
French Creek st park	Philidelphia - Reading	Penns	moderate	Intermediate
Marsh Creek St park	Philidelphia -Exton	Penns	Tough	Intermediate
Springton Manor Farms	Philidelphia -W Chester	Penns	Easy	Beginner
Mickelson Trail	Deadwood	SDakota	Long ride	Beginner
Lambert park	Alpine	Utah	moderate	all levels
Thunder mtn	Bryce Canyon	Utah	moderate	advanced
Baby steps	Moab	Utah	moderate	Advanced
Porcupine Rim	Moab	Utah	Tough	Advanced
Slickrock trail	Moab	Utah	difficult	Expert
BST - Bonneville Shoreline Trail	Salt Lake City	Utah	Tough	Intermediate
Gooseberry Mesa	Zion	Utah	Moderat	Intermediate
Galbraith Mtn	Bellingham	Washington	all levels	All levels
Greenline #6	Olympia	Washington	Tough	Expert
Cranberry Lake	Seattle - Anacortes	Washington	moderate	Intermediate
Whistle Lake	Seattle - Anacortes	Washington	Difficult	Expert
Japanese Gulch	Seattle - Mukilteo	Washington	moderate	Intermediate

Next post, I'll share recipes.

... gonna eat a lot of peaches.

Years ago when I ate my first fresh peach from the tree, I vowed to never eat canned peaches again. I now recant.

I have two peach trees in my backyard. One bears fruit this month, the other next month.

My mother-in-law is a bit like my father in that she will go into the yard and bring in natures bounty. My dad was here picking up pecans.  Peaches are different. No shelf life. After giving away three bags of peaches and tossing a bag of moldy peaches,I had to figure out something to do with them. No room in the freezer. Then I recalled my Aunt and Grandma home canning.

My sister-in-law has parents who do canning and such, so I gave her a call. "Where do I get Ball jars?" I asked. "Try Wallmart." she replied. It's a big store, surely they would have everything I needed. Nope. "Ball jars? What's that?" was the typical response. "Mason jars . . . for canning peaches..." I would reply. "We sell jars of peaches." was a response.

This is getting me nowhere I thought. What the heck, I'll go to ACE hardware. THOSE people ARE helpful and smart. If they don't have what I need, they will tell me where I can find it.  Within two minutes of entering that little store, I had two associates helping me AND educating me. They even gave me the Ball booklet on canning.

After two days of cutting fruit, making jam and canning fresh fruit I am psyched. Now, I am thinking of making fig jam, canning my grapefruit juice, orange juice, apple sauce, plum jam, kumquat marmalade, grapefruit marmalade, orange marmalade, lemon juice, lime juice all from the yard! Talk about organic! My bug control is my chickens! Too bad summer is almost here, I would like to can tomatoes and beans from the garden. Maybe pickles too.

Then there was the taste! Wow! Warmed peaches on ice cream. Tangy, sweet, wonderful. Never tasted peaches this good that were immersed in corn syrup. (bad for ya too).

Anyway, this story dovetails nicely with my last post. Just had to share.

organics vs genetic modified

I love the coast to coast radio program. Always great for a laugh or to scare the crap out of you. Also hear about real news years before it makes the mainstream media. Ironically, it's broadcast from 550 am - a right wing propaganda outfit. Funny you would hear about all the crooked tricks Bush was trying then in the day hear his praises. So, don't sell them short they were talking about 'Osama Bin Laudin' while 'W. Bush' was still trying to bring back 'star wars'.

Anyway, they were talking about the dangers of gm foods the other night. Thought I should share. Talked about how slaughtered animals that feed on it looked on the inside vs a regular animal. Not good.  Also increased Autism in children.

Talked about we basically have two kinds of modifieds. 1. Those plants that can absorb 'roundup' and survive and 2. those that basically produce their own equivalent to roundup.

Anyway, click on coast to coast link or read my copied text. Click here for a shopping guide (pdf).

GM Food Dangers

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Date:	05-18-10
Host:	George Noory
Guests:	Jeffrey M. Smith, Dr. Betty Martini

Author and filmmaker Jeffrey Smithdiscussed the dangers of eating genetically modified (GM) foods, and how the biotech industry has tried to cover up negative reports. The stakes are high right now, with a Supreme Court battle over approval of genetically modified alfalfa, and the Dept. of Justice combined with the Dept. of Agriculture investigating if Monsanto is a monopoly, he reported. Some countries are taking the threat of GM foods seriously, with India recently banning GM eggplant.

Genetically modified foods are created to either tolerate herbicides or become insect killers themselves. Right now, the main GM crops are soy (91%), corn (85%), canola (85%), cottonseed, and sugar beets, he detailed. A recent study of hamsters fed GM soy beans, showed that by the third generation most of them had become infertile or sterile, died at 5x the rate of the control group, and were slower to reach sexual maturity, Smith said. In testing of farm animals, they demonstrated a marked preference for non-GM feed, and would avoid eating the GM feed, he added.

Monsanto is "amazing in their ability to completely spin the truth," and they rigged research when it came to their genetically modified bovine growth hormone, Smith asserted. Their ultimate goal is to "genetically engineer 100% of the commercial seeds in the world and patent them-- to replace nature!" he continued. The Non-GMO Shopping Guide offers a listing of various food categories and specifies which brands are not genetically modified.

Aspartame Update

In the last hour, Dr. Betty Martini shared an update on aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in hundreds of products. Based on many studies, she classified aspartame as a poison and said its use is associated with numerous health problems. Because of the bad publicity, aspartame has recently been rebranded as AminoSweet, she noted, adding that such products as Just Like Sugar, and pure Stevia are safe alternatives to artificial sweeteners.

Website(s):

responsibletechnology.org

nongmoshoppingguide.com

mpwhi.com

dorway.com

holisticmed.com/aspartame

Book(s):

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Modified Foods

Seeds of Deception

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