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I live in Los Alamos, New Mexico with my husband, daughter and two dogs (and whichever mice are currently living under the house). I like to spend time with my daughter, knit, bike, run, and tear my house apart, but not all at once.
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Happy Father's Day to you dads! I think we had a fun day here at the Pickett household. Neale got to play with his bees, and we just poked around doing odds and ends house chores until I realized I needed more screen material for fixing up two of our front window screens (the dogs ripped one up, and the roofers ripped the other up). So we hopped on our bikes (Ginnie on the Afterburner, which is the one-wheel seatpost attachment bike that's her new and favorite ride). We ran downtown (the flag for the Afterburner randomly snapped off halfway into the ride - what was up with that?!) and on the way back Ginnie got...sleeeeepy...I noticed her swaying side-to-side a little more on the way home, and I asked her if she was awake. She turned and gave me a very serious, sleepy look, like "wha? I just woke up..." Uh, we don't sleep on the bike, Gin! This is not a trailer! So that was a fun ride home trying to keep her awake! I guess I've never actually felt sleepy on a bike, even on our century ride the other year, so I thought that was pretty funny.
Neale pointed out that since we have determined that the size of our family is permanent, we can now buy this: the Bike Friday Family Triple Traveler. That actually got me kind of excited. We have the option of getting one that converts into a single bike, so we can sell Neale's current Bike Friday and he'd still come out of this with a single Bike Friday. So two things have to happen first: we well our Rodriguez tandem and Neale's Bike Friday (and whichever other bikes Neale has lying around that he's ready to part with) and see how much we have in hand to put into getting a Family Triple. Hopefully we'll have pretty close to enough...more than half saved at least. Maybe that way we can go for rides and I can easily catch Ginnie if she dozes off!