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Turned around the 'Beware of Dog' sign on the front gate and put the dogs in the kennel. Hopefully, the FedExExpress driver will now deliver my new camera and lens that needs a signature. My new spinning reel is also suppose to arrive today. Will be getting my new braces tomorrow. We also just finalized our Alaska trip. Nice to have fun events among life's challenges.

I went to the hospital to visit my mother in ICU. Wo46 and I walk into the room and my mother is showing the 2 doctors in the room pictures of our sidecar racing. She couldn't show pictures of her grandchildren like most 85 year old grandma's.

Actually us. We’ve been shopping for new bikes for a while. Ordered two of these this morning. Hers may be here in September, mine not til November.

Awesome looking bike. Don't suggest you might want to lower your bars, you will get lots of grief.

Wish her a happy anniversary. She will have put up with my craziness for 50 years if I survive that long.

That’s what some kids playing football in their yard asked me as I rode by them today. Then I realized I still had my GOBA number on the front of my bike. I must be a senior professional.

. It had to be done..( or undone) I'm off to bed...and yes I will lower my bra No there will not be pics

If you ride an ebike would that make you an eraser?

She has had better days. She's in the hospital for a blood infection she is also having complications with the Hemodialysis Catheter (I had to look that up) @Parr8hed would know more about what's going on then I do. At 85 and surviving 2 different battles with cancer, double mastectomy, kidney failure, vertigo and heart disease she's ready to throw in the towel.

The article on the UGA entomologists’ field trip to Springwood https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story/8982/magic-in-the-air.html

CJ has been under the weather and not going to day care so the grand parents have been covering mom & dad the past few days. I had the 2 PM - 5 PM shift the past two days. Grandma (not my wife but daughters MIL) has boundary & control issues and in many ways acts as though CJ is her kid. She came by around 4:45 and after a fun couple of hours with me CJ was winding down. She snatched him from me and sat down putting him on her chest to rest. CJ wasn’t having it & squirmed off her and climbed back in my lap and leaned back into me. Yeah that made my day! Have I ever mentioned he’s Opa’s boy? Smokey has been really good too and not the usual PITA trying to get my attention but he also gets lots of love from Opa when I’m there. Todays selfie to mom & Dad so they know all is cool at home.

@Kirby, Please watch your back around @groupw. He posted this on the book of faces. He is leaning towards Squirrel Matador, but I know that he is more than a bit interested in another one of the choices as an alternative career if IT does not work out for him.

This is the actual color

Back on the horse.

FREEDOM!

Thirty years ago people would ask me "Do you race?" Nowadays they ask me "Can you pick up the pace?"

6/29/22. 50 miles today

Oh for goodness sake! You'd think with as much as you paid for your car, they'd give you some real brake pads instead something off a damn bicycle!

The pads are just one piece of a braking system though. If you think about it, there are a number of things that could go wrong, a loose anchor bolt, bubbles in the lines, overheating & boiling the fluid. I mean the pads are just one of many potential causes of death on the bike.

Other than here. Just received an email from the State Park system advising they installed a 360-degree webcam at the John Pennecamp Coral Reef State Park. This was a first in the nation underwater State Park. OK, a small portion is above water to rent and dock the boats plus camping and other activity...but the majority of the park is off shore. Located on the first island at the top of the Keys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEqn_2M-rs

If you would drop your damn bars a little... Nobody gonna mistake you for a racer riding around on that comfort cruiser.

Thank you After my mother showed the doctors Wo46 hanging out of the sidecar one doctor looked at Wo46 and said....Why would you do that? You know how doctors like motorcycles. Racing motorcycles is even worse.

Work has gotten better after the IPO. Having money in the bank reduced the stress. Hired a CFO, so I have a boss, who is quite hands off, but we are upgrading out banking and accounting software and there are some growing pains. Handed off HR to a PEO service, which I sitll oversee, but they do the heavy lifting and I just approve the payrolls, etc. Entering into my last year as Scoutmaster. Working on recruiting my replacement to shadow me over the next year. Have to sit down with the youth leadership and set up the calendar and patrols for next year sometime in July. It has been stressful at times, but I have a great team of adult leaders supporting me. Probably the best job I have ever had. I think all the stresses of Covid topped off with taking the company public just hit at once, but things are normalizing and I am much more relaxed. Thanks for asking.

I was almost stoopid again

I have never been mistaken for a racer. If I did, I could definitely make it to cat 6 after a few months of training.

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Who am I kidding.....I can't get any lower. I hang out in some low life dive bars.

I have previously posted that my paternal grandparents were old order Mennonites. You know, horse and buggy folks. Back in my childhood days, when we got actual winters, with snow on the roads and stuff, horses and buggies gave way to horses and cutters, or sleighs. When my grandpa died in 1974, my dad inherited his cutter, and he had big plans to make it into seasonal yard art, but that never happened. Might have had something to do with how he hoisted it into the rafters in the shed, and how much of a chore it would have been to pull it out and put it back every year. Well, now Dad is gone, and Mom is ready to sell the house, so it is time to de clutter (or de cutter in this case) . We put the call out to all the cousins to see if someone in the family would take it. My cousin's son said he has a place for it, so we are happy it will stay in the family. Anyway, the job today was to take it down from the rafters and put it on the ground, ready for them to come and pick it up. It was quite a big job, as Dad had built a storage crib under it that was full of wood scraps and other junk. So last time I was there, I tore out the crib, and made it ready to just pull out all the loose stuff so we could set the cutter down. I really don't know how my dad got it up there 48 years ago, but my youngest brother who was 10 at the time said he was there helping and all he remembers is that it involved ropes and pulleys. Well, we were a bit better equipped for setting it down. We used my 2 ton engine hoist, to which I bolted a transverse channel iron to the lifting beam. Once we had the weight off the wires suspending it, we just cut the wires and lowered it with the hoist. Once it was down to waist level, with one man on each corner, (me, my two brothers and a nephew,) we were able to carry it out and set it on the trailer.

the first Corvette rolled off the line https://automotivehistory.org/june-30-1953-first-production-corvette/

Why are you guys talking about brakes? I assumed he meant the wedding band!

When we rode in Nova Scotia we had a long, steep, winding decent. Unfortunately the pavement had some real rough section so you couldn’t just go. I overheated the breaks and flatted the rear tire at about 35 mph. Fortunately i was able to unclip one foot and locked down the rear brake and slid to a stop. Ruined the tire but at Least I didn’t hit the deck. Gumpette was in tears cause she thougjt I was a goner.

CINZANO!!!!

Can you add streamers?

RW Hampton is one of the first Eagle Scouts from Troop 1001. He was the 5th Eagle from the troop in 1973. He is an award winning cowboy poet. He came back to sing at a funeral for one of our past Scoutmasters recently. http://www.rwhampton.com/

I am more partial to the 1958 though. That is a thing of beauty.

Bell makes an 'economy' version of RE's helmet:

The hippie

Since I'm done running for the month, pulled as hip flexor on Saturday and Mondays run proved it wasn't ready, I'll post the months numbers Runs (22) Total distance 65.20 miles Average pace 11.23

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I was asked many years ago if I was an Olympic diver. Made me feel good. Now I feel good if someone simply acknowledges my presence.... 😉

When I worked night shift for a while we would drink and play pool in the morning in a dive bar affectionately known as “Dan’s Bicentennial Shithouse”.

12.6 miles around the neighborhood. Reached down to flick a bug off my leg and hit a pothole I didn’t see in the shadows on a gravel road. I didn’t go down but I had a wild ride for a moment.

I grew up watching Route 66 in black and white. When I became an adult I got my 62 Corvette. It was fun for a while, was a chic magnet in VA Beach but I've owned much better cars. On the other hand, the new ones are some refined world class cars.

Took forever just to get one letter placed correctly.

..that I will complete this TdF challenge on strava. 42,000 feet is a LOT for one month of riding. More like 3 months of riding (or, at least, 2 months of nice weather riding)!

I though this thread was going to be about my wife.