Beautiful Sunday capping off a great week of summer. After 11 years we finally put a deck off the house this month and final touches completed this weekend. Nicely done Doug. Came in handy with all the extra kids running around.
Monday offered plenty of excitement when Jens hooked a Jens with a daredevil. It was not a good scene. Jens was pretty much gorilla glued to Jonell so I drove them into town and the convenient "rapid care" took out the hook and added a dot to the poster where they have taken hooks off. Dad said it wasn't as bad as the time he hooked a guy in the nose up in the boundary waters back in high school and they had to portage 5 lakes back to see a doc.
On the way in, Jens said he was never going to fish again but next morning he was nailing the sunnies and we cleaned them up for supper.
Jack and Joe were in a play this week. Saturday was the final show and was a good day for that since it rained all day. One of the mornings Jack says " Dad, Joe wants to go swim naked" "Jack, thats called skinny dipping and you do that at night" "Oh, yeah right. Dad, there is this kid in my class and his dad, has a friend, he went skinny dipping in a public place and got arrested and put in jail". Jonell said Jack was watching these two dragonflies share some love, Jonell walks out and yells "Mom, look, this dragonfly is helping out the other dragonfly"
Saturday rained all day...making for some fun on the course. Managed a couple laps and was able to clean the entire lakeside section, ups and downs for the first time in "muddy" conditions. Actually the traction was quite good with the water cleaning the tires constantly. Also helped the dew points were low. Doesn't seem to make sense but it makes a difference. South wind and high dewpoints and it would of been real spongy and greasy, this weekend everything was nw flow as has been the trend for most of June.
Baby turtles coming out this week as well. Jens or Jack caught this one and Jonell was checking it out.
Also tons of snapping turtles around now. Dad is picking them up constantly, clearing them from the grounds as the campers would pretty much freak and just best to get them up to the swamps where they want to be. They were active the end of May and then didn't really see them for a while.
This afternoon Jake and I rode up to "Mellow Yellow" knocking out about 30 miles in 2.5 hours. The quad trail portion of the ride was pretty muddy from some brapweens tearing it up earlier in the day and it is so overgrown it takes a while to dry out. I thought the traction was better yesterday but great training for the eastern races coming up, with some climbs steep enough requiring a dismount and hike a bike which is pretty much a certain thing in VT..
Friday, when Jake was riding on the trail, it was raining so three days in a row riding wet for him.
Some short steep hills just not quite rideable.
Over 150 miles the past four days, all on the mountain bike, including a real
nice ride around the lakes on Friday with a few thunderstorms to ride through. The off road stuff the past few days beat me up pretty good so a few days easy on order.
Jon wrapped up first week of hockey camp. They had a shootout and he was the final shooter. I was waiting for someone's one piece to break before final shot. Fun stuff.
Monday offered plenty of excitement when Jens hooked a Jens with a daredevil. It was not a good scene. Jens was pretty much gorilla glued to Jonell so I drove them into town and the convenient "rapid care" took out the hook and added a dot to the poster where they have taken hooks off. Dad said it wasn't as bad as the time he hooked a guy in the nose up in the boundary waters back in high school and they had to portage 5 lakes back to see a doc.
On the way in, Jens said he was never going to fish again but next morning he was nailing the sunnies and we cleaned them up for supper.
Jack and Joe were in a play this week. Saturday was the final show and was a good day for that since it rained all day. One of the mornings Jack says " Dad, Joe wants to go swim naked" "Jack, thats called skinny dipping and you do that at night" "Oh, yeah right. Dad, there is this kid in my class and his dad, has a friend, he went skinny dipping in a public place and got arrested and put in jail". Jonell said Jack was watching these two dragonflies share some love, Jonell walks out and yells "Mom, look, this dragonfly is helping out the other dragonfly"
Saturday rained all day...making for some fun on the course. Managed a couple laps and was able to clean the entire lakeside section, ups and downs for the first time in "muddy" conditions. Actually the traction was quite good with the water cleaning the tires constantly. Also helped the dew points were low. Doesn't seem to make sense but it makes a difference. South wind and high dewpoints and it would of been real spongy and greasy, this weekend everything was nw flow as has been the trend for most of June.
Baby turtles coming out this week as well. Jens or Jack caught this one and Jonell was checking it out.
Also tons of snapping turtles around now. Dad is picking them up constantly, clearing them from the grounds as the campers would pretty much freak and just best to get them up to the swamps where they want to be. They were active the end of May and then didn't really see them for a while.
This afternoon Jake and I rode up to "Mellow Yellow" knocking out about 30 miles in 2.5 hours. The quad trail portion of the ride was pretty muddy from some brapweens tearing it up earlier in the day and it is so overgrown it takes a while to dry out. I thought the traction was better yesterday but great training for the eastern races coming up, with some climbs steep enough requiring a dismount and hike a bike which is pretty much a certain thing in VT..
Friday, when Jake was riding on the trail, it was raining so three days in a row riding wet for him.
Some short steep hills just not quite rideable.
Over 150 miles the past four days, all on the mountain bike, including a real nice ride around the lakes on Friday with a few thunderstorms to ride through. The off road stuff the past few days beat me up pretty good so a few days easy on order.
Jon wrapped up first week of hockey camp. They had a shootout and he was the final shooter. I was waiting for someone's one piece to break before final shot. Fun stuff.
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