Spirit of Giving My son was a junior in high school. He had just returned from an away track meet. I had given him $10 to stop at the fast food place after the track meet as was the custom. When I asked him for the…
Once upon a time when I was about six years old I was out helping my father unload firewood from the back of his 1965 International pickup truck. I remember that truck cost about $1,500 when it was new. Today it would cost close to that…
Climbing the Alp de Zwift and other challenges. Sometimes I get these crazy notions. Well, OK, more than sometimes. For three weeks in a row my crazy notion was to join the Thursday night race up the Alp de Zwift. Let me explain. The Alp de…
When I was about sixteen years old my love affair with cars started more out of necessity than anything else. With little money and in constant need of cheap car parts I spent a lot of time at the local salvage yard looking for used parts.…
Being a fall baby, I suppose it is only natural that fall would be my favorite season. The only bad thing about fall is that it leads to winter. That is a whole other story. I like the fall not only because of the changing colors…
Group Rides? Group rides. We talk about them. Most of us speak of them fondly as if they are a social event, a chance to catch up and hang out with friends. We definitely like the idea of group rides. But somewhere along the way herd…
As I have written before, I spent time on Zwift, part bike smart trainer, part virtual reality, part online game. Tonight’s goal was to complete the Everest Challenge, 164,042 feet of climbing. This Zwift thing started November 9, 2018 with the purchase of a smart trainer…
I have always had this love hate thing going with fire. When I was an early teen we used to burn our papers outside which was very normal for country living way back then (ahem). One day it got away from me and I had to…
The phone rang one day and there was another young couple looking for one of my sisters to babysit so they could have a night out. My oldest sister Debby had long since moved out and my sister Stacie was out on a date with her…
Making Due As a kid growing up, as a family we didn’t have much. There was hunting, fishing and gardening to make up the short fall of the money we lacked. We picked and froze fruit, canned and we even kept potatoes in the basement kind…