LIFE BIKE EIGHT

August 31, 2013Posted inLIFE BIKING
Kansas City has a huge bike charity event called the MS 150. MS 150 stands for "ride a 150 miles over a September weekend and raise money for Muscular Dystrophy".  The people who volunteer for this event are legion wide.  There are practice bike rides throughout the summer to help you get prepared to ride the MS 150.   Often times the rides have their own T-shirts so you start collecting some mighty fine T shirts to show the miles you have ridden. There are MS 150 rides in different…

LIFE BIKE SIX

August 30, 2013Posted inLIFE BIKING
Bike clothes deserve an entire chapter along with bike seats.  Let's talk about clothes first. Bike pants are tight and they are foam-lined where the seat hits the road...so to speak.  Bike pant color comes in black.  Summer bike pants go down to the knees and have elastic to make certain they don't ride up.  It's important that bike pants stay exactly where they need to be and provide some cushion.  I had to find bike pants that would fit my immense body.  The link that you see here shows…

Why are you here? What are you doing?

August 28, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
Memorial service today for  Bob Chrisman.  Turns out, he affected perhaps a million people's lives.  Affected them in a very postive way.  He cared about each person he knew and came to like.  He truly cared. The moderator of the memorial service told us that Bob's circle of friends were separate and apart.  He had different groups of friends and in most instances, the circles didn't intersect until he was in Hospice...and just now at his memorial service. For instance and for me the most moving testimony to Bob's influence…

Bless the Cantle and Pommel

June 29, 2013Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
Western saddles have a seat defined by the cantle and the pommel.  The cantle is the owner of the saddle horn.  The pommel is the owner of the back of the seat.  When you swing a leg over your horse to sit on a western saddle, the pommel and cantle gently guide your seat into the correct position on the saddle.  "Plop" and you are seated where you are meant to be. Today, Lucky Star and I borrowed a dressage saddle.  Dressage saddles have no saddle horn.  That's what I…

Bike Shop

June 24, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
Pleasant HIll has been added to the Katie Trail!  The Katie trail is a long long gravel chad trail that has been put on an old railroad track.  There are no grades over 1%.  That means when you ride a bike, there is no coasting.  We don't have that problem with riding horses on the Katie Trail.  Sadly, this portion of the Katie trail isn't open to horse back riding.  The Nerve! Pleasant HIll has increased local businesses by one.  We've added a Bike and Coffee Shop.  So, the other…

So Much to Tell…So Many Words to Type

June 23, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
Adventure One - this morning The back story is my recliner.  My recliner is one of those power lift chairs.  We bought it so my mother could get out of a chair.  She left us in 2007, so we must have had this chair a couple years before that.  I've been sitting in this chair every day of my life that I live at home.  I soak up my mother's DNA and use it as a Mom reminder.  I love the chair.  The chair has been telling me it might…