Snow was melting.
Temperature 52 degrees.
Time for the end of winter bike ride.
The trees were poinky - that's what TJ called them when he was little. The Big Blue river was rushing with the snow melt. I saw flocks of red-winged blackbirds on poinky trees.
And a chipmunk (well, he was home filling his chubby cheeks with peanuts from the bird feeder).
We still had snow hidden under some tree shadows.
I got to bike by our prairie. The grasses were all brown. I wonder if we should burn it this year?
It was a good bike ride until mile 29 when it started to rain.
A cardinal rule of biking - when it starts raining, DO NOT STOP!
If you stop, you chill, your muscles turn to stone, it is miserable. So once it started raining I charged on though without a break. You keep going and going until...
Ahhh. Home! Strip off the biking clothes. Hot shower. Warm pjs and a kitty.
Best feeling in the world.
3 comments:
Hi Helen. Need to say I am loving your blog. I check it every day on my lunch break and (obviously) on the weekends as well.
I purchased an under-armour type thing for the 80 ride (started at 40 degrees) and love it. Whenever I head out my door and the thermometer says 50 or under I put it on. Nice thing about SD is the ride is bound to warm up!
crs
Where do you get and where does your grass fed beef come from?
I would buy grass fed beef from Traders Point - the organic farm just South of ZIonsville Meadows. I have met their Swiss brown cows and they seem very happy.
Nic buys hamburger from there.
But for Saturday's feast Tom bought the fixin's from Whole Foods. I don't know what farm the beef came from.
So glad you like the blog.
Stubb loves his mommy so much! that is an adorable picture and I bet you are hating that you aren't biking today its almost 60 and very sunny!
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