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So I was asked at work by a co-worker about how her kid was wanting to get into a triathlon.. our kids were in jujitsu together and she knew I rode. She then asked if I knew of anywhere that had a cheaper bike to get him started in training. I said sure.. come on over, I have three I’m not using, pick one out and I’ll sell it to you cheep if he is interested, but for not you can borrow it. They came over the other night and I lowered the seat to the smallest setting, made sire it was a good fit for peddling, popped off the bar stem and replaced with a shorter one for his reach, and he took it for a spin around the block. Within about 20 min they loaded it up in their truck and took it home. they sent pics of the bike to his coach and quickly gave me a call. I guess the coach was excited to see that he had a bike, and said it was a better one then the other kids that were in the training class. Well I would hope so.. it’s a trek redline with a bunch of upgrades... Yesterday I got a text asking what I want to sell it to them for.. I haven’t used it in 5 years, not really sure what I paid for it or the upgrades, but then again it is getting a kid out and exercise... I’m think $250 but I know it could go for a lot more.. but it’s for a good cause..

The weather was a perfect 85° and sunny day for biking. Wo46 and I found this nice intermediate single track trail about 50 miles from home. I took a few photos from their website. And for @AirwickWithCheese After biking we stopped I a little one tavern town for some carbohydrate replenishment therapy because we forgot to bring a couple of parking lot beers. It was the perfect day.

Count your lucky stars. Ontario is still lockdown central. Curbside pick ups only. I did enjoy my trip to a hardware store in Wisconsin the other day though. Old hardwood floors, creaking and flexing with every step and that universally recognizable hardware store smell. It was heavenly.

I made pumpkin crumb muffins this morning and used my new pot holders. That made me smile.

Pizza here.

I hope it's not a loose wheel. Didn't Kenny Rogers have a song, "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel?"

Water tonight...trying to clean up my act..ha ha like that will last

Had a Ranch Water earlier and having a gin and bitter lemon watching Indy car

It's Big Brew Day, but I went to camp instead of the Brew Day celebration. I did make sure to have a beer.

I guess that makes it an official plumbing job. After several attempts to get the hot water working in the main bathroom, a drain leak finally prompted me to get after it. Our house has copper drain pipes and the pipe corroded at the elbow in the basement. I worked a little ways back to be sure I had good copper. Cut it and then figured out my pipe needs and went to the hardware store. Found a new faucet that WoW and I both like and bought the plastic pipe I thought I needed. Demolition went as well as expected when you have fittings that haven’t been touched in 15 years! I started to assemble and found my silicone sealant had dried up. Didn’t think to was that old. Trip No. 2. Got the faucet in and went to work on the drain pipe. The elbow I bought had the slip joints backwards from what I needed. Trip No 3 to get the right part. I got everything together and just didn’t like how I had transitioned from 1.25” pipe to 1.5”. Nothing in the plumbing parts in the garage worked. Trip No 4. Finally got it all assembled. Turned on the hot water valve. All was good. Turned on the cold water and turned it off right away I could have sworn I tightened the cold water hose! Tightened again. Turned on the cold again. No spray. Ran the water and the drain had no leaks! Enjoyed an iced mocha and now I need to pick up my mess and toss some things in the garage I found while looking for plumbing stuff! Hope the wind lets up so I can ride a bit this evening.

This is what a 6 octave vocal range can do.

I don’t like the kid that much!

I told Wo2 that I’d like to get a motorcycle, she said no I didn’t.

Had this tonight with my burger.

Mint julep to begin.

Gin and tonic tonight

Southern Tier XX

48 rolls of "Who gives a crap" TP..$55 I have 10 rolls left from my order back in August. And Tea..from Tea Source..just more Prairie Passion and Georgia Sunshine for summer.

I still have a few motorcycles I need to purge if anyone is interested. Some bicycles too.

I was having trouble with the hot water in my kitchen sink. Burning the house down fixed it.

5/1/21 58 miles today on the club ride

Bourbon is my beer tonight.

At the only store in town

10 minutes indoors on my trainer..the Terry Symmetry is what is on it. Legs, lungs and shoulder are all in rough shape

a bit of both.. Bees first, but the cherry on top was finding out he hates clover. We have a LARGE garden. we like the bees

40 miles on the tandem with WoJSTL. Our second 40 mile ride in 2 days. Getting ready for the GAPCO tour in June.

63 miles, my longest ride so far this year. Headwind on the way oot. Sunny & 79° now

24 miles on the bike

Well, in fairness, you don't have to understand it, just appreciate the talent.

You and I know a $250 price is a tremendous gift. I spent $800+ last month on a near-entry-level decent Trek bike. But talk to some people who don't know about bikes and they think $250 is an enormous price - they see the cheap, easy-to-fall-apart and hard-to-keep-adjusted junk they sell at Walmart like the one below and, with two shifters, etc. it looks like a technological marvel to them. So I would gently work into the conversation the fact that the kid's getting a solid bike for a much less than is usually required for such a bike.

Win-win solution, then. They feel agency because they invested in the bike and inspired that someone believes in them. You feel cash and some free space in the garage and a sense of philanthropy.

It’s only half sugar, the other half is corn syrup.

free

I was going to say no but So7 has two motorcycles in the garage. So yes, yes I do.

5/1 5 miles walking and jogging. 9444 steps

This! While it wasn't a cake, the one I have yet to figure out is a one time incident baking a pecan pie. Somehow, the crust rose to the top. While I can understand the liquid passing through to the bottom with perhaps a small leak allowing the crust to "float", but pecan halves? Keep trying to repeat the experience without success, but stuck with all these pecan pies to eat with each failed attempt.

Impressive in any language.

I believe I'll have another, thank you

Fake news. It was pretty much all birch and it did fly.

That's not enough summer

Because they were invented in Arkansas?

My grandmother, the one whose ancestral line I can trace back to the 1400's, died in 1957 when I was about seven. It's funny how much info is stored in our minds and what trigger mechanisms bring it to the surface, but I just had a mental vision of her, clear as a bell, from what must have been 1955-57. It's something I haven't thought of since I was a kid. Today, I was playing the free Microsoft "Klondike, Classic Solitaire" which I seldom do: the seven column game where columns of descending cards of alternate colors occurs. I wanted to move a red 7 from the deck but there was no place it could go. I thought, "I wish I could tuck it behind the black 6," at the top of a column. Immediately, I could see in my mind's eye my grandmother sitting at a table, holding a deck of cards in her hand, and perusing the seven columns while playing solitaire, and guess what she did? She slid a card from the deck behind the top card of a column, with a rapid but gentle shaking of her hand to keep the card above it from being pushed away. I was standing next to the table to her left and my memory's level of vision was not much higher than the table, but I knew she was cheating, so I must have been old enough to know how to place classic solitaire. So my clearest vision of Grandma Rose was of her cheating at cards!

Gettin a certain itch, again... Everybody has a motorcycle engine in their garage...don't they

$250, then. With a “win rebate.”

He said "a" motorcycle engine, not "many" motorcycle engines.

She would make you cry like a baby, take all your money, your Cabriolet, your casement windows and your carnation boutineer and leave you at the curb in your Calvin Klein boxer briefs with nothing left but shame and regret

of course. It's the Caputo recipe. Second time that I tried it. Difficulty with this is that the flavor is good, but it is tough to cut. The original crust I made was more tender, but thicker. I need to find a happy medium. I want a thin crust but a tender consistency/texture. First batch uses 2 1/4 tsp instant yeast. Caputo recipe uses 1/4 tsp instant yeast. This time I added about 1/4 cup sourdough starter to the mix. I will work with 1 tsp instant yeast plus degrees of sourdough starter to find the perfect thin crust. Texture and flavor are my targets.