thanks be to dog giver of all blessings. thanks be to lulu for her sweet company. no thanks to the idiot who dumped meat under the old mulberry tree. thanks to cody the beagle i always heard thinking it was a bummer dog who turns out to be a beagle delight who loves to be chased by lulu. thanks be for my blue bike, loyal and good spirited through the years and thanks be to jay for fixing blue's bottom bracket which was a truly heroic enterprise remedying the corroded central hub and seized bearings of my recycled life.