May 4, 2015
Hello and welcome. What have you been up to? I see, I see. Please send me an e-mail so I won't forget! I
would like to apprise you of my latest and fairly late activities if you don’t
mind:
1. Taco ride – My
dear ol’ Da and I made it out to the plush limestone chip of the Wabash Trace
Nature Trail Thursday last. It was a hoot!
I got to the steakhouse and ordered the salad
bar and a Fat Tyre bier, which was not available last time I recall. I was informed that this event is
not called “The Salad Bar Ride.” Touche! avec accente mon frer, avec accente, silvous plais. Nevertheless, I procured the sustenance I
needed including the following: potato
salad, pasta salad, bean salad, creamy pea salad, crispy iceberg lettuce salad,
pudding with Oreo salad x 2 trips! Yum!
2. Despite the hourly
forcast with 15-minute details showing rain and thunder this evening, I
ventured out to bicycle to the grocery store without my raincoat! Exhilarating! It didn’t’ actually rain, so it wasn’t that
exhilarating! I purchased some Greek
yogurt, which I have been informed is no longer a popular purchase. That seems appropriate, since I like to wait for clearance prices whenever possible.
4. The National BikeChallenge is now occurring and you can sign up to participate at your
leisure. You can use Strava to help you
get credit for your bicycling deeds of heroic prowess. Strava is, I believe, a familiar of sorts
that will perch upon the body part of your choice as you swoop and soar
precipitously upon your chosen venture!
Strava will exhort you, praise you, inflate your ego to pressures that
will rival your tyre tubes. Ware,
however, the mischievous nature of this spritely prankster as it may turn from its light-hearted prancing into dangerous tunneling through the depths of your psyche
only to emerge eventually into dimly-lit subterranean caverns wroght by
creatures long forgot! It might also eat
all of your Greek yogurt if you’re not careful!
5. Here in Omaha, we have a Live Well Omaha Challenge that allows you to enjoy keeping track of your active commuting accomplishments and to pulverize the competition into a mushy, sweet Greek-yogurt-like substance to be flavored to taste!
5. It is still
spring, and my unwitting familiar and guide, the elusive groundhog has been
prancing about and good-naturedly posing for the camera.
I feel this is a good omen for a strong
bicycling season for those of us who revere the stately clumsiness of the hog
and her ilk.
6. It is too rainy to
mow, so we might as well ride on! To
soggy glory and groundhogs!
