And pull on your wool socks and gather clothes around the fire.

New Belgian Brewing Company toasts to the season with their Belgian inspired glassware, full

of tubelow winter ale, a tasty winter warmer with a hoppy palate.

While the weather outside may be frightful, the beer inside is delightful.

New Belgium encourages you to follow your folly to NewBelgium.com where hoppy sing-alongs,

give a bowl glassware, and cheer can be found.

This is the shorts, near listening to the dirtbag diaries.

The alarm goes off 4 a.m. as what I see, a new day begins.

The reality this day started two days prior with a simple decision to ride to work.

In order to lighten my load, my clothes go the day before.

In short order I'm rolling, the bike floats down the road as if 190 pounds didn't exist

on his back.

This is the one time in my life that I feel light and lean.

A chill run through my body.

Is it my heightened senses or just an early respite from the 100 degree day soon to come?

Flutter, swoop, a slap upside the head.

I was just the victim of a misguided beacon of electrical fields, a bat.

Soon lights approach from behind, farm workers pass on their way to another early day of

thankless, back-breaking work.

Thank you.

Another flurry, out of the corner of my eye, I see a farm dog out for his pre-dawn exercise.

As the miles pass by, I am serenaded by the local coyotes.

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