Midget wrestling tonight! I would tell you where, but
I am sure the crowd will be overflow. Even now those midgets are pumping up
their muscles.
April showers? Yes. it is April for one more
week. You would not know it today, but we had snow this month. But there are no
more excuses. It is time to ride.
We made it to the Bike Expo, simply out of habit. I
intended to buy a new helmet but the wallet doth protest. Besides, pumps were
cheaper than helmets. (we didn’t but a pump either) The nice clamp onto the stem
with a pressure gauge pumps of various price. You could even buy a pump bundle,
complete with a tire repair CO2 kit and bicycle care products for $100; still
cheaper than some helmets.
As we approached the Bike Expo we saw at least a
dozen people walking out with pumps. And it is time to pump up those tires; the Kettles have
opened and so has Little
Switzerland. Minooka is open also. The biking season is underway. The rain
this week was not enough to close the mountain bike trails for long. Check before you ride or
simply use some common sense.
The La
Crosse Omnium is just around the corner. One of the most beautiful areas of
our entire country. Pump up those tires, get out on your bike and prepare for
whatever level or venue you desire to compete at. The WORS handbook is available on
line or at many of your local bicycle shops.
You don’t compete? Despise competition? Get off my
blog!
I have written about bicycle baskets in the past,
that their were too few available. That has changed somewhat. I saw a very
interesting basket at the Bike Expo. It clipped into a bracket you mount on your
bicycle. You can detach it and it has swing up handles, much like a grocery
basket.
I asked my wife, “Do you want a basket like this for
your bike? You can go grocery shopping with your bicycle.”
“No.” she answered in her most common of responses to
my inquiries, as I mused getting it for myself and doing my own grocery
shopping.
So am I become a housewife? Underemployed I find
myself vacuuming and cleaning, and doing the dishes at an ever increasing rate.
If I were to take up such a role, certainly “the dishes would all be cleaner.”
But never fear, such a fate will never befall me, bringing all to question the
future of what it is to be a man. I have many a manly pursuits to entertain
myself in, building with wood, working the dirt with my hands…
I am growing potatoes this year. Seeing how expensive
grow bags are, a person on the Kenosha Potato Project Facebook site suggested I
could make grow bags out of a good quality garden fabric; that one uses to block
weeds and such. I suggested to my wife that we get a sewing machine, but the
finances are prohibitive. So I will sew up some grow bags by hand.
It’s beautiful outside. Get out and ride
your bike; …do something, anything outside. (I know I’m on the computer but I
was outside) It looks like we will have a good crop of peaches this year,
despite losing several major branches from the weight of the fruit tearing them
from the tree last year. I saw a bumble bee buzzing about the yard today. I do
not think we will be doing any canning though.
Sorry, I have been long overdue in my posts. I will
rectify that.
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