Friday was an interesting ballet of running around. Mike and I had decided to swap trucks in the morning so that I could pick up his giant movie screen from Trails Edge (where its been for a year). He’s been thinking of setting it up somplace at the Addison Oaks race to play some MTB movies during the day. The screen is super long, and his truck has a bigger bed than ours (and certainly longer than the jeep). Also, I was going to be picking up cones, stakes and other trail marking materials from the Sherp that the Metro South chapter is letting us borrow for the race. Mike has graciously offered to house that stuff until race day.
So, I left a little early for work on Friday and stopped in Oak Park on the way. Its a quick little jaunt off the expressway, but hardly out of my way at all. We swapped keys, and I drove away in his big truck. Around noon-thrity, I drove from work out to Trails Edge to drop off Bob’s destroyed wheel, pick up the screen, marking stuff and a bike for Bill to try out over the weekend and went back to work. After work, I drove to Mike’s place to get my jeep back, then by Bill’s place to drop off the bike and then finally I made my way home. By then, it was raining pretty hard.
We ordered pizza and watched TV for the night – it was a long busy week, and we needed some chill time.
Saturday, we were planning on meeting Steve at Addison to talk about the kids race and some other logistics. Nick and Mike also had to meet with another TC to talk about some business. It was pouring rain when we got to Mike’s place a little before 11 and raining even harder while we were walking around at the park. We got pretty soaked in the hour or so we were out there. Once home, we commenced with the LWM (lazy weekend mode) – watching movies and chilling on the couch. Nick even napped on the couch for a couple of hours in the evening while the PASTIES were cooking (I listened to music and knitted).
By sunday AM, cabin fever had grabbed hold and I was ready for some fresh air. Since it wasn’t raining, and just gloomy, we decided to grab the bikes and head out for a ride. We rode for a little over an hour, got a little over 10 miles in and brought home lunch from Jimmy Johns. A slight burst of motivation got me to clean up the bedroom a bit, deciding to throw away Shanias dirty and disgusting (several year old) dog bed and replace it with something that was completely washable (with the old one, we could only wash the cover). So, we went out to run some errands and made it back just as the heavy rain started to fall.
After that – it was back to LWM for the remainder of the evening. I’d found a frozen lasagna in the freezer and called that dinner.
Overall – not a bad weekend .. I just wish I could have ridden my bike a bit more. But, what can you do when you depend on Ma Nature?
you tease! what were you knitting!?