2 weeks ago I went for my next training ride (I had a few weekends where I didn’t ride, because we were on vacation – pictures from that to come).  This time I planned a route around the Quabbin reservoir. I started out the same way I had a month previously – by riding east … Read more

2 weeks after my adventure with flat tires, I made another attempt to bike to Shelburne Falls.  This time I made it!  I took a slightly different route through Northampton, allowing me to stay on the bike trail much longer, and avoid a little hill climbing that I’d done before.  The route through Williamsburg was … Read more

After my failed attempt to ride to Shelburne Falls, I planned another training ride the following weekend.  This time, I went for a bit more modest distance, because I went biking the evening before, and was a bit tired from that. The evening ride was on Saturday, July 9, and involved riding from Hadley north … Read more

As I’ve done on two previous occasions, I’m doing a fundraising bike ride for charity.  There are a couple of differences this time, though.  Instead of the MS Society, I’m riding in an event being held for the first time by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.  It’s a local organization that collects and distributes … Read more

Last fall, we acquired a night-blooming cereus plant (more correctly known as epiphyllum oxypetalum) from someone on Freecycle.  I was told that it had never bloomed in its former home.  We thought, “well, maybe we’ll get lucky”.  So it sat on the porch until the weather got cold, and then it sat by a window … Read more

Over the July 4th weekend I made an attempt at a longer bike ride, intending to ride to Shelburne Falls (where I had never been before).  I made sure that I had plenty of air in my tires, and plenty of water, and set out mid-morning, riding first to Northampton. I headed out into Florence, … Read more

The first weekend in June I went on a bike trip up to Turner’s Falls and Greenfield.  I headed up through Amherst, Leverett, and past Montague Center to get to Turner’s Falls (where I had been on a previous ride), and once I got there, I rode the full length of the bike path that … Read more