Friday, October 30, 2009

Apple Cider Century & Wine Making

I know, I know, we went on this trip about a month ago...

Well, since it's been awhile since I've gone, I don't have much to say about it anymore. Other than it was exhausting and totally worth it.

Chris and I will probably go again next year, so if anyone else wants to join us, it's a fun family bike event!

You can totally do this trip on a weekend without taking work off, but we were both glad we took Monday off to recuperate from the ride.

Check out some pictures on our flickr site.





Also, Chris has been working on his first batch of wine and we bottled it up last night. It's a Pinot Noir... Now I just need to come up with some clever labels for the bottles...


Wednesday, September 30, 2009


Discovery Toys

It's official!

I've joined the Discovery Toys Team!

I'll be hosting a launch party next week. More details will come, but for now, here's some info:

Wednesday, Oct 7 - 5:30pm-7pm

OR

Thursday, Oct 8 - 6:30pm-8pm

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I like to think I ride my bike for several reasons: earth, health, enjoyment.

However, as admirable as those reasons are, sometimes they're not enough to convince me to roll out of bed just a little bit earlier so that I can ride rather than drive.

This week however, Chris' car has been slightly out of commission, so he's been using my car and I've been biking in.

After work today I rode over to Grandma's house to take care of the vacuuming.

"Oh Alison! You rode all the way here!" (shock and dismay in her voice)

"Yes Grandma, I did."

"Do you want to put the bike in my Jeep so you don't have to ride home?"

...I just can't seem to convince her that I choose to ride, and I could just as easily have taken the car if I didn't want to have to ride home. *sigh* Maybe someday she'll understand. For now, she just thinks I'm crazy.

On my way home I headed to the library. A week or so ago I was there picking up some books on soap making (yes, I'm a hippie-wanna-be...) and travel. As I was looking at the online catalog I saw that Twilight was in on the Express Shelf. What a nice idea! The Express Shelf has a shorter check-out time, so instead of getting it several weeks, you only have like a week to borrow it. Those books are always on such long hold lists, so I was excited that it was actually in.

Needless to say I sped through that one, put the next book on hold, got it within a few days, sped through it, put the next one on hold and today Eclipse came in at the library! So I picked it up.

I know. My life is pretty exciting. But you probably don't have much more of an exciting life if you're sitting here reading this. ;)

PS - Apple Cider Century this weekend!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Bicycle Maintenance

Chris is gone at Praise Team practice.

We have a bike trip coming this weekend (Apple Cider Century).

So...while Chris was away, I took the knobby tires off his bike and put on some new slicks.

All by myself.

No help.

Just me, one woman.

I feel so empowered!