Actually the riding has dropped off, sharply, over the last few weeks....
Just after our Anniversary Weekend Ride to Pike Lake, I started getting this pains in my side. And then back... and then side again... and then it was kind of feeling... numb!? I was worried with the bent over riding position - and stress of riding full loaded - I had maybe pinched a nerve in my back, so something... and then I got this weird rash in kind of the same region... which was weird, but with all the riding I thought maybe it was a heat rash of some sort...? Eventually I went into see my doctor and it turns out it was Shingles...
I gotta tell you, Shingles sucks. I've been in a LOT of pain the last three or four weeks - even after all the sores cleared up, lot of pain. I think I'm FINALLY getting over it - as the pain seems to be diminishing... a bit...
This past week all our regularly scheduled fall activities started up and so I've been riding a bit more this last week - just getting myself and the kids places we need to be.
Getting groceries with Keira.
the first lesson of the fall was actually MY cello lesson on the first Friday of the month - everything else started up the following week.
Heading downtown for some father/son bloodwork...
Seems like everywhere we go these days, full bike racks...
Another appointment... another full bike rack.
There have been a few grey days so far this month.
Lots of pelicans on the river.
As I was taking the picture above - I spotted this critter on in the water by the bank. I thought it might be an American Mink. It's been a long time since I spotted any of them in the river. We watched a while, at first I thought it was digging in the sand in the water...
Eventually I realized the movements it was making was it just rocking in the waves and it was probably dead... I wondered how it had died. Finnegan suggested drowning. At first I though that was ridiculous - I mean, it's an animal that lives most of it's life in the water, how could it drown. Finnegan pointed out it still had to breath air... he's not wrong, I guess... I wonder how many pink and beaver drown...? Or dolphins!? or WHALES!? Does that happen!?
This past week, Keira's dance classes started up and both evenings we went out to them it was cold and rainy...
It was feeling like deep fall - not the beginning of the second week of September!
Damn you, soggy leaves on the ground!
Fie!
I mean, wearing toque and mitts on the 10th of September seems a bit odd...
at least there's still some green in the tree tunnel - I give it another week or two...
Murder!
Some families, when their kids get to a certain age, end up buying another car so their kids can just drive themselves around and stuff... and then there is our family...
This Yuba Boda Boda has been sitting at Bike Universe for years and John just kept dropping the price until Amanda broke down and decided it would be a good bike for her and the kids to share - if they ever had things to haul about and weren't going anywhere with me...?
New cycling specific infrastructure in Saskatoon. I just don't get it. They rip out downtown separated bike lanes... then put use stuff like this....?
I'll take it, I guess...
Stay tuned for the next FORTNIGHTLY post - in one fortnight!
(I love the word; "Fortnight").
