Saturday, July 28, 2007

Bike Blurb

Bicycling is a major pastime. A church parking lot close by provides tons of smooth, paved, safe practice. Heather and Sam each have new cruisers so everyone is set. Spencer cruises through the woods easily and learned to pick up enough speed to make it through some pretty sizable squishy mud puddles. But the driveway is the usual spot -- a regular peloton up the driveway, around the tight turn at the gate, back down through walkway into the yard for a little offroading around the back of the yard and past the sand box, then down to the walkway, and back down the driveway.

Here's Owen, Sam, Pops, and Spencer at the church parking lot.

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Monty and Sam off to the store with Spencer and Owen in the trailers.
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Another run to the store on the new cruisers. Sam said they hadn't been on a ride, just the two of them, for some ten years. It's really just been seven or eight.
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Owen -- so tricky. Riding forward, facing backwards. I still play that "trick" regularly; you'd think I'd learned by now.
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Spencer is amazingly adept on a bike. Depending on his mood and the circumstances, he will ride a trike, a 12", or a 16" two wheeler. On the 12" bike, he takes runs with the bike to get up some speed then flies onto the seat. Very cool to watch -- this little guy with such skill on the bike. Here he is with the 16" bike. This is one he rode through the puddles at the church parking lot.


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Bikes figured fairly highly each day of our visit. Sam and Monty even got a ride in on the cruisers just the two of them.

4 comments:

Heather said...

Looks great and it's a good sign that you are posting - you made it through the flight and got home safe and sound.
Heather

Greenie Gardens said...

What a lovely memory log this is turning out to be.

Greenie Gardens said...

Couple of thoughts about the rose:
Is there a saucer under it that catches the water? - it could be too wet.
Has it ever been repotted? If the soil has never been replaced the rose could be lacking in some nutrients. Along with this, has it been fertilized recently? Roses are pretty heavy feeders.
If it has been really hot it could be unhappy.
Has it been sprayed for bugs? Thrips or aphids?
Or it could just be old! Often grafted roses don't live too much longer than that. Good luck with it. Hope all is well at your house. We say the movie Becoming Jane today and loved it! Greetings to all. Stephanie

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