Weehoo, Here We Go!

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This spring, I was looking at “adapted” options for Olin to better participate in our bike-riding adventures. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we do have a couple of trailer-cycles. Olin tolerates them, but tires easily from holding himself up …

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Bicycling, Railfanning and No Kids: Date Night!

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Saturday afternoon, Tim and I coaxed the babysitter over to our house and lulled her in to a false sense of security, then ran for the hills. The bluffs, actually. We took our bikes down to Prairie du Chien for …

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It Worked Again! Could this be the new norm?

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I thought I had to work, this morning, so I got up and went to work around 7:15. When I got there, I found out I wasn’t actually on the schedule at all. I texted my other scheduling contact to …

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A Bike-Riding First

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Today, I was determined that we were going to go bike riding. AJ simply doesn’t have the confidence to balance and pedal on his pedal bike, and can’t go fast enough to keep up with adults on the balance bike. We are …

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Trailer Tales

tl;dr too many kids, not the right kind of trailers Last year, we weren’t able to do much bike riding because the kids didn’t fit in our available trailer space/pulling power equation… During the summer, Tim is usually gone to …

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First Ride of Spring

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Bike riding is a thing, at our house. When spring comes, we tend to put away model trains (or just kind of leave them where they drop…) and pull out the bikes. The day we went to the train show, …

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Productive day

Four kids asleep in three different beds. Today has been a surprisingly but satisfyingly productive day. (Apologies for no photos, but I was busy actually doing stuff, rather than taking pictures of doing stuff.) The day started at 3AM with …

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