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Scenes from a pastoral ride:
A nice view to wrap up an easy 73-mile weekend.
It was 91 one degrees at the end of the ride, but my feet felt fine in a pair of new socks:
That’s just marketing you say, and I would agree. But then I turned one of the socks inside-out, and you can see that technology.
All of your socks should look like that.
I managed to talk the sun into staying up long enough yesterday evening to get a 25 mile ride in. And then today we took a 30-mile spin.
It took me a long, long time to catch up to her for this picture:
She’s pretty fierce.
We went to a wedding last night. A dear friend, a sister that should be. We’ve known each other for 12 years and she’s just about the sweetest, nicest, hardest working person you could ever hope to meet. I’d go on and on. She’d hate that. Anyway, Elisabeth and Chris said things in front of people and signed documents and now it is official.
They’re a sweet couple and they had a lovely wedding and a terrific reception.
Everyone just went on and on about it, as they do. And we all enjoyed meeting the people that helped shape the people we were there to celebrate. It was pretty much what these things should be. And delicious food. Also, there were rubber duckies:
Here’s the shirt from yesterday’s race. Awesome design, very yellow.
Hi. How’ve you been? I haven’t written anything here in two weeks, but it seems like it was yesterday. Here are some pictures to catch you up on the last few days.
One day it rained. We had flowers in bloom and the petals of this one caught a lot of water. I thought that was pretty, so I tried, and failed, to capture it:
We had great chicken biscuits from Plucked Up, a hipster chicken joint (of all things), a Columbus restaurant on the recommendation of a stranger. She did not steer us wrong:
The homemade biscuit had a spicy pineapple marmalade.
The Yankee made homemade pasta. It was so delicious we dried a little bit for later:
So we’ll be getting a pasta maker soon, I suspect.
I made a small light diffuser box, which was the second most fun thing I did in the last two weeks. The first two or three things I shot in it were cat toys, because they were nearby. Now I’m wandering around looking for small things to photograph.
Here’s an Franklin D. Roosevelt – John Garner pin, from Green Duck Co., Chicago, circa 1933 or 1937. Garner helped push FDR’s New Deal legislation through Congress, but “Cactus Jack” and the president would clash over policy during the Depression. Garner also believed Roosevelt should not seek a third term and challenged FDR for the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination. Dropped by Roosevelt and beaten, Garner left D.C. in 1941 after four hugely successful decades, promising to never cross the Potomac again, and he never did.
And here’s a Unigate milk bottle featuring an ad for a shopping center in South London. It’ll run you about £6 on eBay. I got it because I liked the graphics and I asked nicely at a cafe. Milk bottles, it turns out, have become a big nostalgia item in England.
The most exciting thing I’ve done in the past two weeks was to take a 30+ mile bike ride on my new Specialized which had at least three categorized climbs on it. And I got to do it chasing The Yankee across state lines.
She took these pictures near the end of that ride:
And to wrap up the exercise for July:
If I’m going to eat chicken biscuits with spicy pineapple marmalade I need to exercise more than that.
We watched the last stage of the Tour de France tonight, which concludes after three weeks of racing across the country finishes on the famed Avenue des Champs-Élysée. They do several laps, a downtown criterium winding down the world’s toughest endurance race, and they turn around at the Arc de Triomphe.
Over and over we saw the place where we stood just last month:
You can see more of our day in Paris here, here (including the Arc) and here.
And, with that, this blog is going to take two weeks off. Expect a ton of fun stuff when you come back on August 8th. Be safe, have fun until then.
Catch you on the flip side.
