Spring Time!

The first day of spring is this week, and it couldn’t have come too soon. It’s finally warm enough to start working in the yard.

Hazelnut Shells

Over the weekend I picked up some hazelnut shells to spread in our flower beds. What have you been hauling on your bike now that the weather is improving?


What country are you from?


MAX to Market RideOn our way back from the hardware store the other day, we were waiting in a turn lane between some cars. As a gentleman turned in front of us in his SUV he hollered something out the window.

That’s not so unusual. When you’re on a bicycle lots of people in cars seize the opportunity to have a little human contact and shout something at you – sometimes it’s positive, sometimes it’s less kind.

The unusual part was specifically what this guy yelled and that it happened the day before the 4th of July.
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