I Will Not Have It

On this day, that is made cold and hard With my cracking joints and dimming eyes I will not have it. You, with your wandering gaze, your anxious amble My campy, cinnamon antagonists Hightail it out of here! Likewise to you, blunt encroacher, surgical striker My rumbling, chocolate beast Steer clear! For I am bound […]

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Soup

An ethereal ‘V’ lingers in a stone gray sky, A sky that betrays daylight to dusk, ever earlier, As our evenings, compressed by old habits and new responsibilities, Fall into routine. Windows, closed and muffling the songs of our community, Long to be cast open at the first sign of that last, lovely, autumn afternoon. Now the […]

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Blog Moved

Our blog has been moved, but we haven’t lately. We’ve been fattening up and miss biking greatly. But now the work starts as wintry winds blow, and with weary hearts we will welcome the snow. So shutdowns be damned; must not go on a lark. There are routes to be planned to see National Parks. […]

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October Shop

(Continuing in our unofficial series of not-exactly-travel-but-kinda-related-to-bikes-off-season-posts): The early afternoon light is warmer than expected. Sunlight beams in through the large bank of windows, and even the dark niches are illuminated without the help of bulbs and switches. Shop radios, muddled by a pleasant crossing breeze, uphold the illusion of activity. A few tasks to […]

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Get the Gear

A late summer’s rest / is what we love best / to celebrate our anniversaryOn our favorite lake / at the tip of our state / hail to Nature: our sole adversary “Get the gear!” is our mantra / or is it more of a tantra / maybe not, but there’s no other rhymeNow that’s […]

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