A SNOW-LESS Winter in Bahstin...

Merry called from Phoenix around noon Boston time, 6 am Hilo time and is now heading into Kona. I'm getting ready to take Saddle Road and go getz him.

He is taking me out for a belated birthday dinner. My belly button bd was March 2.

eastern lake ontario
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another sunny day ! temp just a bit below freezing . the sunny weather will end this weekend - it'll start warming up - rain and soggy snow is expected .
the birds and squirrels are pretending it's spring already !
hbg

happy belated, Sglass!

have a good belated birthday celebration

Wondering if the Merry Eagle has landed in Hawaii ...

60 in Wisconsin today. Went to the dog park for the first time since the pup re-fractured his toe 3 months ago.

Then came home and washed acre of mud off dogs.

66 right now! Kid finally learned how to ride her bike, no thanks to us. My sole contribution was getting her a Razor scooter to practice balance. Yesterday I took her to a big flat place and she was off. As of today she can ride up and down the sidewalk fine.

Bahstin is back to blustery winterness after a mild sunny weekend...

yeah, there was a chill in the breeze today.

Congratulations to the Sozlet on the bike thing. I vividly recall the day I learned to ride. My dad did not believe in sissy things like training wheels. So I had no bike of my own. Instead, I was sitting on my older brother's bike, a clunker of a machine painted (quite badly) with dark blue housepaint. It was in front of General S's' house and I had my left foot resting on the lower portion of a fire hydrant. I pushed off, fully expecting to fall over as was usual. But instead I rode! General S happened to be in his yard. He always seemed to be a bit distant; perhaps even cold. I learned much later how deeply he was involved in the whole cold war betwixt the US and the USSR. But he applauded and let out a few whoopies.
It was one of the highlights of my life.

Aw, sweet of General S. Nice story.

The pushing off thing was key for her too. She got that from a friend, as well as the idea of learning on a too-small bike. She basically used it like an awkward scooter at first -- push off with feet, then glide -- and then moved quickly to putting her feet on the pedals and propelling herself. She tooled around gleefully on her tiny bike (the one that used to have training wheels, which are evil for non-sissy reasons -- they just "train" you the wrong, anti-balance way) and then once she seemed to have that down, we moved on to the more reasonably-sized bike she got from her grandparents for her last birthday (early winter, so the weather only just got nice enough for this stuff). And she's fine on the regular bike. And stoked.

Well Merry Andrew has been in Hawaii two weeks and no sun. He is still very pale but feeling great.

Sglass, thanx for the update on pale-face MA...