Another day on the Trails

Snowmobile trails, that is. The snow wasn't cooperating very well and it seems I was sideways every time a sled was coming at us. That got me to thinking about why I like mountain biking so much. On the road we "share" with the cars. On "bike" paths we "share" with fruit booters, joggers, dogwalkers, etc... On snowmobile trails, well, you get the idea. When I'm out on mountain bike trails it's just us. The Mountain Bikers. Selfish I guess but I'm sure the Smokers feel the same way when they're out freezing their @sses off smoking together. It's just them together in their misery. On MTB trails it's us bikers together in our version of bliss for a little while.
Is it Spring yet?

It was 10 degrees

and I was way overdressed. Oh well. The snow was a little less hardpacked and more like sand on Sunday. The climbs weren't as easy to go up or down. I thought of it as practice for the 2010 O2S except it will hopefully be warmer next August. Spencer and Meat joined us for the ride, with Spence showing up on his CX bike. I wouldn't have been able to even ride on those skinny tires in the snow. Looking forward to doing it again this Sunday. If anyone's interested, we'll leave our house at 1:00. Lisa's going to have soup ready for us after the ride.

Snowmobiking

With the echoes of TSP in my head Lisa and I ventured out on the snowmobile trails yesterday. It was actually super fun! We got to ride in places around our area I hadn't ever seen. We even had first tracks on the club trail just southwest of Leland. It took us up on top of a ridge I hadn't been on before and the views and riding were spectacular. It was one of those days when I could've just kept riding. I know better though, so we turned around and had a sweet fast descent back down to Leland and cruised back home. Only saw 4 snowmobiles all day. Gas to run a sled must be too expensive when laid off, I guess.
I should just shut this down so the picture of Lisa and Junior stays at the top of the page but they say that the show must go on.
We got almost half of the front of the house sided yesterday, too. If I'm not careful I might finish that project up. If that happens look for some sort of black hole or tear in the time space continuim to appear somewhere West of Sauk City.

Chicks and guns

So Lisa finally got her birthday, anniversary and Christmas present for the next couple years. We went down to the local bar in Leland and had us a beer or 2 and picked it up. Pretty sweet. That's Junior standing next to my lovely bride. He's been tending bar and giving opinions on politics and life since he was 10 years old at this place. No matter where you live it's worth the drive to be here in this slice of old time rural Wisconsin at least once in your life. You don't have to buy a gun or even a beer, he's got Sprecher's root beer on tap and that's delicious, too.

On another note, my suggestion is that you ask nicely to pass on the right if you happen to catch Lisa at a race this year. That's a Savage 30-06 and it'll take down something 5 times the size of the average comp racer!

***calm down, she's not going to shoot anybody. Geez. That was meant to be funny.***

Bar-B-Q Pizza

So good. Got to hang out with The Boss and The Boss' wife (the real boss!) . Eat food, drink beer. Ahhhh. That's what I'm talkin' about. It's going to be a great year!

Sh@t Sandwich anyone?

I think they're serving them up to us at work tomorrow. Mmmm. Can't wait.

I Almost

got to bury the cat on Saturday. We heard a commotion and I looked up to see Mason giving one of the cats the death shake. I can't believe he actually dropped it when I yelled at him. We didn't see that cat for a while. She was back around the next day although a noticeably sore. 8 lives left and counting for Stripe.