Milestone

Well this weekend my odometer clicked over 10,000 miles. Less than one year from purchase date, actually by that anniversary we will have had several other short trips as well as the wildflower ride. So it is quite likely I will have another 1K on by that time. Time for the big one, the 10K checkup. I'll get them to out Syn3 in it since that is all they carry at the dealership and also get them to give it a very thorough check. That is the last of my prepaid service so may as well get anything I can out of the way.

Saturday was the regional chili cookoff hosted by Texas HD in Bedford. What a day! The wind was unreal. Sustained winds in 30-40 mph, with gusts up go 60. I rode into the wind getting there, good thing since when I left to go home we were in the midst of a major dust storm. Probably the worst I'd seen here yet. Visibility was less than 3/4 miles. My bike and clothes got filthy riding home. Interesting experience in such strong winds, but not as bad as I expected.

Sunday was a lunch ride, short ride to Sanger. But afterwards we went for a bit of an tour. Went with Larry and Holly and a couple of others. They were booking it. Why? There was no need to get anywhere as fast as we could. Anyway we ended up breaking off from them and took a more liesurely pace, took 902 accross to 75. Good little road through a couple of small towns. It was fun. We ended up putting about 180 miles on Sunday, that was when I clicked over.

Spring Has Sprung!

Wow, what a gorgeous week! Another day forecast in upper 70's. Yesterday was the dinner ride, since the weather was so nice, we rode. Its the first dinner ride we have ridden our bikes in several weeks. Maybe even since November or December. We've taken our cars since then and each ride there has been few bikes, probably no more than 5 or 6 on average. Well you could tell it was the first nice day in a long time yesterday. We had 50 bikes on the ride and a total of 78(?) people I think at the restaurant. That's probably as big a dinner ride as I've been on.

Lots of new faces and some that we haven't seen in a while so that was all good, other than the fact that we probably overwhelmed the restaurant!

Also, Lindsey E was in town, so he joined us over at the restuarant. He had fun, not sure it was what he was expecting or prepared for... So I buy him 50-50 tickets, and he wins a prize! He'll be back in town next week and will likely come out to house to see the boys.

Almost forgot. Its getting into riding season again. We have t-storms forecast for weekend but if weather holds, the regional chili cookoff in Bedford, and a lunch ride on Sunday. woo-hoo!

Change in the Weather

Finally! Beautiful day, forecast to be a beautiful week. Even yesterday was nice and warm although very windy. Rode to work today. Temps got up to at least 78F, that's the temp now at 4:00. Forecast for 70's tomorrow and Thursday as well. Continued warm but thunderstorms at end of week. Will need to ride some more this week!

Waiting on my CB set, checked with Ryan has not come in yet, I thought it would be in by today.

Offer in on house, looking like a done deal.... fingers and toes crossed.

New Owners

Not much riding this past weekend, too much house stuff going on, with our house showing and looking for a new one. But I did go to the dealership Saturday morning and participate in the New Owners orientation. I took some pics have one to submit for the newsletter of the group.

It had warmed up a bit over the weekend and this week should be nice. The ride Saturday was quite windy. I took 720 to try to avoid some of the wind, but its hard to do. Although I am sure on 380 the wind would have been very severe in some stretches.

I wanted to ride today but have to go to Ft Worth for a meeting. Hopefully most of the remainder of the week I'll ride to work.

Events are starting to crop up on weekends, nothing significant for a while just some short day trips and things. Next weekend is the "regional" chili cook off so I may go down an cheer on the teams.

No rides...

No rides this weekend, too much to do. House is ready to go, now comes the fun part. We did meet up with some of the group on Sunday for an outing. Wine tasting then on to Mexican. Dinner ride this week, is Mexican. Hmmm, there is a trend here.... I'm not a big fan of Mexican, but this is Texas so I guess that is the popular fare. But also for reasonable prices Mexican is usually a good choice.

Weather this week doesn't look too condusive to riding either. Its raining today, supposed to be quite cold the next two days, below freezing at night, although forecast for Friday is looking pretty good! Maybe a ride to work.

Missed hockey last night as our thing went on too late for me to make it. No hockey this week, I think I need to do some other exercise activity...

LOH Granbury

Well this past weekend was "Girls Camping Weekend". The LOH went to Granbury TX, not too far a ride but just enough. The weather was fairly frigid on Saturday when they left, below freezing, but fortunately was warming up. On the board a lot of them were getting electric gear if they did not already have. I think a total of 9 girls rode bike and the remainder went down in cars. Interesting ride or so I've heard...

The girls had fun and all made it back safe.

I went for a short ride over to the dealership Saturday then a liesurely ride back home.

Working on prepping the house...

Oops almost forgot, it was Super Bowl Sunday as well, I watched the game, in bits and pieces, missed most of the commercials.

This week in Hockey...

Well, its one of those weeks. Three games back to back to back, Tuesday, Wednesday and tonight.

Tuesday was a great game, we ended up winning 7-6 in OT. After being on the ice the first shift when they scored 2 goals in the first 50 seconds (YIKES!) we managed to get back in the game and I actually scored the game winning goal from a slapshot in overtime! Whoo Hoo!!!

Last night was a D game, we won 5-2, I scored the first goal off a deflection in front of the net. That game was surprising rough against a chippy team, HFL.

Tonight however I don't know that we will fare as well. We are down 7-8 regulars, including our goalie. We have a couple of subs, but the team we are playing has some goal scorers. Several of us have played all three games as well. We will see.