Sunday, 7 November 2021
The one day in the year I wake up soon enough to get me to the church
on time. Hope I don't lose track and type too long.
For years I've been saying "no, I haven't fallen" when filling out
medical forms. Yesterday I had two hard falls in the same day!
http://wlweather.net/LETTERS/2021BANN/BUNGEE04.JPG , (huge file) http://wlweather.net/LETTERS/2021BANN/BUNGEEh4.JPG (scaled)
I managed to secure the basket with three bungee cords -- two
cow-hitched over the top wire of the basket and the rail of the rack,
then pulled tight, and one passed under the rack stay near the
cable-tied piece of wire, then pulled tight and clipped to the outside
of the basket. (Picture was taken after refining the set-up at home.)
When I packed the dill weed and English muffins I'd bought at Walmart,
I moved all the heavy stuff to the undamaged pannier, leaving the
damaged one with nothing but crumpled grocery bags, my windbreaker and
gloves (I never put either on, and came home a bit sweaty), and my
little bag of stuff. The little bag holds spare handkerchiefs, a
back-up mask, food bars, and the like. I did eat two or three of the
salty meat sticks.
Then when we were putting thyroid medicine on Al's ear that night, my
chair rolled out from under me and knocked a knob off the stove. Dave
was able to put the knob back on, but I bruised my other elbow, and
just now I found a bruise on the back of the shoulder that was not
involved when I fell onto the side walk. I suppose I bounced off the
arm of the chair on my way down.
Al walked around on the table wondering what all the commotion was.
I had to dash out of Walmart at four o'clock to be sure of getting
home before sunset. And I did get home in time to zap Marie Calendar
lasagna for supper.
This may be my last wandering trip to Walmart this year; I'd have to
dash at three o'clock, and I can't get all those layers on much before eleven. Maybe if I scrubbed my feet the day before and slept in my
socks . . .
Maybe some views of your whole bike someday.
On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 23:47:20 -0000 (UTC), pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
wrote:
Maybe some views of your whole bike someday.
http://wlweather.net/LETTERS/2021BANN/TourLake.jpg
This is a professional picture. While I was preparing to start the
Tour des Lakes this summer, a woman asked to take my picture. I
posed, and thought no more of it. Later on this picture showed up in Ink-Free News, and I snitched it.
I signed up for the 100 km loop, then checked out at Checkpoint One
and went home by the shortest route. I hope next year to take in
Checkpoint Two. Checkpoint Three is about half a mile after the route
passes my house, but there's no way I could check out there, as you
have to clear the route by four o'clock, so the checkpoint would have
packed up and left long before I could get there.
If the previous picture looked odd -- "the orange thing" was draped
over my top tube, not the handlebars.
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