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Weather, Fun, Weekend
Another beautiful weekend has passed. Warm temperatures, clear skies. Well, clear skies except for the pollen. As you may be able to see in the photo, the sky looks green/yellow. That is all of the pollen floating around in the air. Winters in the north make cars ugly from all of the salt and snow on the road. Here in the south, all of our cars take on a similar tint due to all of the pollen.
Joshua got a rock hammer this week. We took another trip to "Garnet Hill." A few more garnets for his growing geology collection. Prior to our trip to the side of the highway for garnet collection, we went to the Rolesville Middlel School and Rolesville High School FFA AgFest. We enjoyed looking at the farm equipment, animals and even picked up a few plants from the plant sale. My favorite was the chicks and ducks. I was having Friends flashbacks of Joey and Chandler. While looking at some farm equipment I saw a piece from Lansing, MI. Unfortunately, Gina had to work that morning and missed a piece of her home state. The owner of the piece was from Howell, MI.
Saturday night we got the fire pit going and made s'mores. We sat outside, under the moonlight, by the fire, enjoying our family. What an exceptional way to wrap up a wonderful day.
Sunday was also nice. My usual morning pick-up soccer game. Back home to do a little pick-up around the house (cleaning variety.) The afternoon included our neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Three of the four kids are still old enough to participate, though this is the last year for two of them.
Gina and I prepared chicken kabobs. About two minutes after the grill was on, poof. The flames go out. The gas was all used up. Fortunately I was able to use a neighbors gas to complete the meal. Dinner on the deck
I was asked by a co-worker to create some Revit families from CAD blocks. They are 2D plan representations of people. I asked the requester if she wanted them named any certain way because this is what I saw.
This past weekend we took a trip to the mountains of Virginia. It is an area we have visited before with the Boy Scout troop, but this time we went without the scouts. I have been riding consistently again for nearly a year after I bought a new to me cyclocross bike. You can read more about that here . After more than 2,800 miles on that bike since last June, it needed some more work. The headset was pretty much shot and would not be repaired in time for our planned trip to Virginia. So Gina suggested that I get a new bike. I ended up getting a Giant Revolt Advanced 2 from Giant Wake Forest . We arrived at our rental house very early Saturday morning. 1:30am in fact. We found a place to stay that was literally steps away from The Virginia Creeper Trail . Saturday was to be a day we went hiking at Grayson Highlands State Park . We met Gina's co-workers at the park just after 10:00 am and started our hike. We have camped at this park before with the Boy Scouts but have never ...
If you have been following this blog you will know that I have started cycling regularly again. In my past, I tried racing. I never did exceptionally well, but I did enjoy it. Now that I am back on a bike and getting fitter, I decided to give a race a try. I saw a notification for Buddhapalooza and did some research. It looked like the perfect event for me to try racing again. It is set up as a fundraiser, 10 miles long (7 miles on road and 3 miles single track.) It looked like a fun, low-pressure event not so focused on winning and more on having fun. So I registered for the event and showed up to a course I have never ridden. Billed mainly as a mountain bike race, there were several other people on cross bikes like me. It was a Le Mans start, set your bike down in a given area, all the racers are fifty yards away on foot. When the race starts, you have to run to your bike and then start riding. I placed my bike close to the run start line. I think this was a mistake. By the ...
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