Yesterday was Earth Day, and, judging by all the sale emails I received, it’s apparently now a shopping holiday for “green” goods. But even if the item is “Earth Friendly” it’s still consumption of (very likely) something people don’t actually need. And if you don’t need it and buy it anyway, you are not being …
Category: Biking
Oh Snow!
Chipped out a path to the street Even with Monday off for the New Year holiday, it’s been an exhausting week. This is mainly because over the course of two days we got 15 inches/38 cm of wet, heavy snow. So much shoveling! And even when it stops snowing there is still shoveling because the …
New Year Evolutions
Happy New Year! We are not late-night people at my house. After riding my bike 83 miles on Zwift yesterday, I barely managed to keep my eyes open until 9. We did celebrate with burgers from our favorite plant-based cafe though. And today James made us black-eyed pea fritters and rice pilaf for good luck, …
Welcome Winter!
Snow covered witch hazel This last week a big winter storm hovered over Minnesota for days. I am so glad I don’t live up on the north shore where they had a blizzard and as much as three feet of snow! In the Twin Cities we got rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Wednesday night …
Biking Through the Snow…
We got snow! Not a lot, just a little over 4 inches/ 10 cms. Of course it didn’t fall all at once but in little bits every day so the roads this week have been a perpetual mess. I knew it would snow eventually so last weekend I got my winter bike tuned up and …
