{"id":885,"date":"2021-04-12T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2021-08-19T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T09:58:00","slug":"encore-la-basile-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Encore L\u00e0 \/ Basile Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a winter eventful in all the wrong ways, it&#8217;s a relief to be able to call the current situation, overall, merely &#8220;dicey&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4112-160x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-886\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Nearing its final form<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlogged late year activity included installing fenders on Grand Toro. A hopeful gesture, since on a drizzly day right after repairing and cleaning my commuter (read: beater), I still took out the latter. Maybe I&#8217;ll have the stomach to subject Toro to the weather it&#8217;s built for next year (-_-).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4105-160x140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4105-160x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"888\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=888\" class=\"wp-image-888\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4088-160x140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4088-160x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"887\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=887\" class=\"wp-image-887\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4104-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4104-160x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"892\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4104-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=892\" class=\"wp-image-892\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This drizzly ride took us to the shores of Lake Basile, a residential water slab of which there are dozens in Greater Hartford. Basile, however, has the unique distinction of being in Simsbury, just off the greenway. You won&#8217;t find another small pond in the county as well-signed and exposited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4101-160x140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4101-160x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"889\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=889\" class=\"wp-image-889\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4103-160x140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4103-160x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"891\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=891\" class=\"wp-image-891\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4100-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4100-160x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"893\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4100-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=893\" class=\"wp-image-893\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On a distantly related note &#8211; I don&#8217;t like conflating commercial and civic benefit, but the state of broadband in our area is pretty moribund. If anyone in Bloomfield chances across this blog, I&#8217;d like to refer you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gonetspeed.com\">GoNetspeed<\/a>. Checking availability for your address registers interest and increases the likelihood of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/viewer?mid=1sCuA3e8_HXG7wysV0-3pZetPbKzkTuKJ&amp;ll=41.7939784286834%2C-72.7262075&amp;z=10\">area<\/a> receiving their fiber-to-premises service. (Though it&#8217;s more likely people from other towns will see this and move Bloomfield further down the queue (-_-);<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a winter eventful in all the wrong ways, it&#8217;s a relief to be able to call the current situation, overall, merely &#8220;dicey&#8221;&#8230; Unlogged late year activity included installing fenders on Grand Toro. A hopeful gesture, since on a drizzly day right after repairing and cleaning my commuter (read: beater), I still took out the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Encore L\u00e0 \/ Basile Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}