My new exercise equipment arrived!! I finally made the leap and got a new bicycle! My old bike was an inexpensive mountain bike that suffered a crash last year...and I must say hurt a lot in the saddle area to ride. So I went classic old time cruiser ride...who knew bike companies like Trek made such vintag lovely bikes? I didn't!! And of course I had to upgrade and get the market basket!! My last bike basket took a lot of the impact of my crash!! So a new chapter...I am hoping with the increased comfort that I will bike a lot more this year. Maybe even replace a few errand trips with pedal power instead of petrol power. It helps that my oldest has gotten confident and more steady on her bike and we can ride together. Our youngest has begun with training wheels but can't quite manage it all herself, so we put her in the bike trailer and rode downtown for dinner one evening at our local diner called Daddy O's...it is what I hope to have a lot more of in our family's summer!!! Here's to bicycles!!!!!!!
We have been making some good days here. We have been keeping it simple and visiting places nearby. We have been making simple things seem more like an adventure. We all mount up the bikes and wander out into our little world. We have been swimming at the Community Center, sketching at Dow Gardens, planting in the yard, and riding downtown for shakes and iced coffees. Our days are good. They bring us together as a family. They give us time to relax and breathe and feed each other. There is reading and cooking and chatting and movies...yep I think this time of summer practice is good. Summer you are welcome we are almost ready! A week and a half of school to go and a porch to clean and we are all yours!
