New Arrival

Congratulations Henry and Bonnie. This past Father's Day Noah Matthew, our newest nephew was born at a whopping 9lbs 3oz.
What a Bloody mess. Smashed my knee at Crystal Ridge at the weekly mountain bike race. Four laps appeared a daunting task. I was admiring the beautiful purple clover like flowers and a low growth yellow bloom covering several parts of the course. Those lilies in the forest just don't want to bloom with their current levels of sunshine. Getting through the brunt of the second lap I was feeling good and getting hyped on finishing my longest race to date. Getting near the approach to craters of the moon coming out of the trees it felt like my peddle hit a rock, and another and another, just not letting go. I found myself horizontal, hips over the handle bars, still thinking I could get control. Alas, it wasn't to be but I love my bike and she me, slowly slipping out from under me letting me down into a gentle velvety carpet of green. Thinking I escaped disaster my knee suddenly hit something hard. Seeing the square head of a cap on a discarded drain pipe my mind filled with dread and finally looking at me knee seeing a deep jagged gash I wondered if the day was over. An initial gush of blood convinced me to walk in and call it a day.
Fortunately there was a doctor on site. The fact that the bleeding stopped fairly quickly (suggesting the lower layers of skin were not broken) and no skin was really flapping around she said I would only need stitches to reduce scarring so I saved myself a trip to the emergency room. Some time later a felt faint and had to lie down for awhile, so if you have any deep gash to the skin and think you can keep going in a race factor in a slight shock factor. You wouldn't want to black out on the course. Maybe I shouldn't have made minor adjustments to my bike right before the race. Also I need to lower the psi in my tires. Will put 50psi. Back was 55, front 55psi.
An amazing day at the races? Not really, but what's really amazing is the Germans ride wood framed bicycles.