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I’ve been loving my “new” bike and to prove that love, I’ve been taking advantage of the beautiful weather we’ve been having and riding as much as I can. Oh sure, it’s rained some here and there, but not today. Nope, today was incredible with blue skies, just a hint of wispy clouds and a [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was lamenting the fact that the leaves were kind of bland this year. The lack of rain had left most of the trees just kind of brown with not that much color. Well all that changed last week. I’m not sure if it was the rain we’ve gotten lately [...]
The Autumn of 2007 has been quite wonderful compared to some others. The weather has remained, up to this point, quite summer-like with warm temperatures and little rain (more about that in a minute). One thing I noticed though was the more muted colors of the leaves this year. I’ve heard that dry weather can [...]
I love to ride. I bought a Fuji Roubaix road bike in 2001 and log about 1200 miles a year on the thing. I should say “logged”, past tense, because three weeks ago I discovered a crack in one of the chain stay tubes, the one closest to the chainrings near the bottom bracket. This [...]
Last weekend, Sept 28-30, was the weekend of the Grape Festival in Naples, NY. This is a really fun event to attend and it is well attended, believe me. Someone told me that the crowd on Saturday was estimated to be 80,000. That’s pretty remarkable especially when you consider that the New York State Fair, [...]
Love this couple! My wife Linda and I met Andrew and Cindy at Six Mile Creek Vineyard earlier in the summer. We needed to have a wedding reception planning meeting and Six Mile Creek was a good central location for us to meet. Well, a couple hours and a few glasses of wine later, we [...]