It’s easy to forget plants stored in the basement. Such was the case with nearly a dozen amaryllis bulbs that were sitting in a dark corner. I brought them out about a month ago, now discovering Christmas in July.
Christmas in July
Back to the garden
Back at home, I can see that the garden has been growing unabetted in my absence. The next few days will be spent weeding, trimming, and cutting filling large cans of the excess. I have missed the end of strawberry season, but the blueberries have started to come in. As the girls are away this […]
Morrisville to Danville: A Long Climb
It is coming down in sheets so we need to delay the final leg of our travels. We finally get out of the motel a bit after 9 am and settle down for a great breakfast at Deb’s Place. We linger over our omelets as the rain picks up. Around 10:30 we are on the […]
Sutton QC to Morrisville: Hot, hot, hot
It’s a beautiful clear day with not a cloud in the sky. I approach today with both excitement and trepidation as 61 miles will be our longest pedal so far with temps in the upper 80s. But I am leaving such thoughts in the background as the waitress at our hotel, Auberge Sutton Brouerie, brings […]
St. Albans to Sutton QC: A quiet ride
The church bell in St. Albans rings nine and we start our way to Canada on a cloudy and cool morning. This trip is only 38 miles so we should be able to handle it easily. It’s a quiet Sunday with only a few people walking the trail and even fewer cars on the roads […]
Morrisville to St. Albans: A wet and long day
Rain, rain take a hike. Erik wants to ride his bike. This was the refrain going through my head this morning as we woke up to varying intensities of precipitation that continued until 10 am, delaying our start. The sky spits at us as we mount our bikes, coasting down to the LVRT. We take […]
Le Tour de Geezers: Danville to Morrisville
After a great breakfast at the Danville Restaurant and Inn (Ted had blueberry pancakes with real maple syrup), we start our 49-mile day by entering the trail next to the old Danville train station. The morning is sunny though unseasonably cold in the 50s. Our tires crackle as we pass through a grove of white […]
Danville to Morrisville: Kindness of Strangers
Much like Blanche DuBois, Ted and I have very much relied on the kindness of strangers when we find ourselves in a pickle during one of our road trips. That happened again today when we experienced four flat tires between the two of us. I led off the puncture parade two miles into the day […]
Le Tour de Geezers: Vermont (and a bit of Canada)
For the eighth time in nine years, Ted and I leave our homes to hop on our bikes for the great unknown. This time it is a cris-cross through northern Vermont with a brief visit to Canada. We will be biking nearly 250 miles over five days on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail (LVRT) and […]
Netting blueberries
Blueberry season is overlapping with strawberry this year. It sneaked up on me so fast that I wound up putting up the blueberry netting at the start of the current heat wave. I found out the hard way in past years that without netting, there would be no blueberries for us to eat. For some […]