That Guy in Back is not Pedaling
He Was on a Ride to a Safer Place, Gillie + Marc, 2024
View ArticleSuperb Owl Weekend
Two Great Horned Owlets We went to a potluck dinner party. This event was originally scheduled for tonight, but then someone realized when the big game was. Bill and Mary, our usual hosts had convened...
View ArticleMeskerem
Yesterday after visiting the gardens, we went to the Ethiopian restaurant Meskerem on South Grand. There we enjoyed its excellent and authentic traditional Ethiopian cuisine. This restaurant is named...
View ArticleThe World’s Greatest Grandpa
The World’s Greatest Grandpa Ron was a devout man. He was a good man. He was my friend. We were bicycle buddies. He was one of the Ons: Don, Ron and John. These were guys that I regularly rode with...
View Article2025 Clayton Art Fair
Anne’s Entourage On Saturday, we attended the Clayton art fair. It was a beautiful day, sunny, not to hot and not too cold. This is a relatively small art fair, about five blocks of booths. It is...
View ArticleDJ
Captain Don, DJ and Anne Yesterday, we had a pre-roadtrip field trip. Anne and I and Edie and Ron drove west to visit DJ, our old friend. DJ is in a home now, after becoming too much for her daughter...
View ArticleSpeed Racers
Kinetic Metal Sculpture #70, Carl Zachmann In a couple of weeks, Anne and I will jet off to Europe, ending up on the Adriatic coast in Croatia, where we will tour the Dalmation coast via bicycles....
View ArticleTurkey Lurkey
Forest Park Turkey We bicycled this morning in Forest Park, reprising the route we rode on Monday. The temperatures were cool and being a weekday, the park was not crowded. In Kennedy Forest, we saw...
View ArticleBack on the Bike
Back on the Bike Yesterday, after watching the pros do it, we decided to give it a try too. Some of the pros passed us on the bike trail, trying to stay loose and impress the locals. We rode around...
View ArticleNight Flight
Night Flight Last night was forecasted the storm of the century. Not a thunderstorm this time, but a geomagnetic storm. The northern lights were predicted. The news claimed that they would be visible...
View ArticleBack on the Bikes
I STL After a four-year lapse, Sunday, we got back on our bikes. In 2020 with Covid bearing down on us, we decided to put our bicycles away for the duration of the pandemic. We did not want to risk...
View ArticleFat Tuesday
Mardi Gras Mask Today, in addition to being Jane’s birthday, it is also Mardi Gras. While marking the beginning of Lent, Mardi Gras is also a last hurrah. This year it falls in the middle of February....
View ArticleOld Friends
Massa’s We met for dinner at Massa’s, an Italian restaurant and first impressions aside, what with this tarted up bit of art that first greeted us, also a family restaurant. There were six of us. One...
View ArticleParty Poopers
Goeppertia Well, that went about as well as you might suspect. Whether you yell fire in a crowded theater or announce Covid just before a dinner party in this winter of our discontent, the results are...
View ArticleBack on the Bikes… Finally!
Bike Path After about a two-year hiatus, due to the pandemic, we got back on our bikes again. We stopped riding, because we didn’t want to have an accident that landed us in the ER during Covid....
View ArticleForest for the Trees
Sequoia Forest for the Trees Today is weigh-in day. Anne lost two pounds this week for a total of more than twenty pounds and I managed to not gain any weight this week, having lost 25+ pounds in...
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