It snowed a foot and a half on the weekend. Blizzard, spring, mini-blizzard. Kind of funny really. A co-worker kept telling me that the grass showing through the snow kind of bothered him: “I’m not ready for spring, because when I think about all I have to do and what I should already have done, I’m not ready for it to be spring. The new snow pretend and avoid the reality that spring starts on Wednesday.” I just keep moving. I just go with the weather. Improvise. I’m ready for spring. Some day when I grow up I’ll move to sunny California. Some day.
The fix has a new home on the big porch. The new pad has ideal porch parking for the 4 (out of a possible 6) dedicated cyclists living in this duplex. The other half of the duplex has already converted their porch to cycle storage with 5 bikes currently in there. Our porch is framed in and holds me studio…no bikes in there! On our side the bikes are outside, but still under the porch roof. Had to put a plastic bag over the seat for the most recent storm—otherwise the cover is good.
I’m feeling really ready for the warmer weather. It has been a pretty easy winter and even though both the big and mini blizzards were both very big storms, this is VT and we handled it easily. Snow pack is good for VT and reports of great riding have been coming in. Sadly, I think I’m just not so much of a downhill snow-rider type anymore. Sorry to admit it for the first time publicly, but I like going uphill more than I do downhill. I remember an older back-country skier from Utah saying: “When you realize that going uphill is why you’re out there—-then you’ve arrived as a backcountry skier!” I hope he was right and that this isn’t all about rationale….I’m ready to ride bikes. NOW.
Too tired for more.
Back soon.
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