Too Much

RAW, or Ride Across Wisconsin is coming up, and if you want the discounted registration you best sign up by June 30th; today! This is one budding event I can inform you about but there are so many events it s almost too much to comprehend. Makes going to the fireworks for our blessed fourth a no brainer, …but which fireworks? There are so many local. I don’t go for all that celebrating not on the day but the day before crap.

Minooka Park in Waukesha is a good focal point if you have a growing interest in mountain biking for you or yours. As of now Metro Mountain Biker’s Wednesday Night Races are at Minooka; check the site to confirm. Then, July 10, is the Collectivo Coffee Bean Classic, a WORS premier event.

Summerfest is here of course. I am not the biggest fan of Summerfest. Too many drunks and not enough quiet places that are not under a blazing sun. The old main stage is always nice, you can sit at some picnic benches away from the speakers and take it easy and listen for a while. Now, if I had free tickets…

But it is most productive to write about what I am actually doing rather than what I have planned. What I am actually doing also comes with pictures, if I can remember to bring my camera along. The garden is one of my major endeavors at this time in my life. Hopefully I will have some ride pictures soon, …if I can remember to bring my camera along..

Don’t keep feeding your dog the same food. That is a myth; it is not healthy. Also dogs need moisture in their food; dry food will upset their stomachs so add water.

Ike our dog is consuming our resources and my time like never before. He has been struck with seizures and food appears to be a part of the problem, as changing his diet has helped. He gets away with a lot more now that he is ill. When he jumps into the raised garden beds, destroying the vegetables, I just say, “Yes Ike, I built that for you.” Which is what he wants to hear.

If you do not visit a holistic vet when you pet is suffering from some ailment, you are only getting at best half the options available to heal your dog. Our regular vet, Advance Animal Hospital, will recommend vets with a holistic approach, though I am not completely happy with Advanced Animal Hospital. Vets push a lot of vaccines that may not be necessary.

As of today, three days after I started writing this post Ike is having only a few mild seizures a day. If he keeps improving we will not need to put him on medication.

Happy Fourth of July to all.

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Tosa Farmer's Market

Tomorrow Metro Mountain Bikers, your local IMBA Chapter, will have a booth at the Tosa Farmers Market. Yes, the streets are closed off, but not on the weekends. It is very accessible.

The Fondy Market appears to be an extensive organization with a focus on providing produce in what some see as inner city food deserts; or is it desserts? I only know that one is usually found to be delicious.

I’ve been busy with the soil myself. I am installing another raised bed. That is all the soil it is getting this year. I’ll add another 7 cubic feet of one part compost – one part vermiculite & perlite - and one part peat moss next year. I put some cardboard on the bottom before filling to attract worms. The compost is of my own making.

The cucumbers and other salad vegetables will be going in today. We are a bit late in some things but have started enjoying spinach from our garden, in another bed, already this week. Look at those potatoes grow and the raspberries…..

Growing some beans this year. I am hoping they are pole beans; the package didn’t specify. I was surprised all the seeds took so I thinned things out a bit and put some of the plants in the ground beside the container, giving them a fighting chance. I don’t like to destroy plants or any living things, like that barberry in the back ground, even when they are a nuisance. When I see a bee in the house I escort it outside. We have many fascinating bugs around with our eclectic garden. When my wife sees a bug she has only one thing to say,”Kill it.”

But if I want to expand my garden, so my wife and I can live off our fraction of an acre, that unruly hostile barberry beast will have to go. I just don’t have any other place to put it.

It is time to celebrate Wisconsin Bike Week. It started yesterday and runs for eleven days… Don’t ask me, ask the Wisconsin Bike Fed.

Metro held their first Wednesday night race this past Wednesday. That had yet to be nailed down last meeting and am surprised I am first hearing about it today.

My bike? Still to be prepped for the season; as soon as the garden is all in.

The $136 question: What were my three most favorite WORS races? Keeping the same question. Check out the Charity Jackpot Page link in the sidebar to possibly triple the amount.