Still Going

We were out again tonight with the bike and trailer, riding around. I think I'm going to need to pump up the one tire a bit, it seemed a bit low this afternoon. But other than that, everything is still wonderful. We checked out a new park today, as we wandered around looking to see what there is to see in the range offered by the bike. I can tell that I'm not as strong as I once was, but at the same time it's not terribly hard, so it's working out well. After we got back from the ride we spent a few minutes in the garden before it got too dark to do that too. There's a lot of weeds in there that need to be choked out. I'll probably take some boxes out and put them on my path and then cover them with some mulch to keep it looking less trashy yet still keep the weeds down. My friends that used boxes on their paths last year only had weeds where the boxes slipped apart, so I'm going to try it. It was a good evening. Neither cold nor hot, just very nice. Too early for many bugs. My kind of night.

New Toys

I've been outside all but 1 day this week. We had rain that day, and I also had a nasty headache. But today was something of a red letter day.

Today, I finally got the new bike that I've been wanting to get! We picked it up, and I rode it home. Monkey wanted a turn, but unfortunately, it was lunch time and he clearly needed a nap. So I promised that I would take him out after his nap. At the time, it was hardly a satisfactory solution: he cried. "I'm not sleepy!" And, "It's not my quiet time!" Eventually he woke up from the nap he didn't need, and then we took his stroller outside. Poor Monkey was pretty confused by this. Last fall I used some of my piano money to buy a bike trailer. It came with a stroller adaptation, and we've used it off and on since then. It's a nice stroller. Big wheels. Easy to push. But it's something of a wide load, since it'll fit two kids. So the poor little guy was a bit confused when I said, "Let's go on a bike ride," and got out the stroller. But I talked him into playing along with it, hooked it up, buckled him in, and off we went. At the end of the first block I asked him what he thought. "I like it. It rides good."