Scattered Thoughts . . .

I wrote a few days ago about getting a new bicycle.  Each day, a new upgraded part arrives for this new bicycle so, little by little, I've been upgrading this rather basic bicycle.  I chose this specific bicycle because it had some features I wanted, the price was right, it was a larger model and I knew I wanted disc brakes of some sort.  I've had a difficult time finding larger bikes in summertime but a few popped up online after Labor Day.   Unfortunately, this bike arrived with giant fluorescent orange lettering across the whole bike frame.  In my opinion, the color orange is suitable for only oranges, pumpkins and some autumn leaves.  Fluorescent orange is not suitable for anything and should be eliminated as a color.  One of the first things I did was repaint the frame to cover up this fluorescent orange lettering.  The bike was already gray so all I had to do with order a flat gray primer and spray over the lettering.  The color m...

T his afternoon, I finally got out on my new bicycle for a short ride which was after a very disappointing and frustrating day. My morning started with a couple of packages arriving at the house.  This should have been good news because it was two packages for my new bicycle but both products are being returned.  I wasted about two hours screwing around with both of these products only to realize that they must be returned. The first product was a nice bicycle seat post that has a suspension within the post.  I installed it on my bicycle and rode down the driveway and up and down our bumpy road a few times and quickly realized that this suspension was doing nothing.  I noticed absolutely no difference between having this suspension seat post and having a normal solid seat post.  I packaged it up again and then set up the return online. The second product was a rack for the car to carry the bicycle so I can bring the bicycle to a few other areas for biking. ...

I 've always enjoyed bicycles since I was a young child on Long Island.  By the time I was in high school and college, I was riding my bicycle all over the island and Long Island is no small island.  It is about 20 miles wide and 120 miles long.  I was hit by a few cars and had one bicycle stolen but I've always enjoyed biking. When I first relocated to Vermont (my last Air Force/DOD assignment), I purchased a cheap bicycle and did quite a bit of riding while exploring.  Between kayaking (I lived on a major river), flying, biking and driving, I got to see most of Vermont in a short time.   That cheap bicycle bit the dust about 15 years ago so I haven't done any riding since then.  Every summer I do some searching for a new bicycle but nothing in the lower price range ever catches my eye.  This summer, after having COVID again for the past couple of months and losing quite a bit of weight, I finally found a decent bicycle at a very good price....

B ack about a month ago, I wrote about our two year old grandson getting a new bicycle from Gee and Papa for his birthday.  Liza and Ace spent the morning with us before we all headed to a local park.  After eating some breakfast, we went for a walk while Ace rode along on his new bike.  I shot a lot of photos during this relatively short outing and I shared about two dozen photos here in another blog entry.   I decided to revisit all of those original photos that I captured that day to see if it would be worthwhile trying to put the photos together as individual frames of a video.  I actually got this idea for a video while looking at images of one of Kenzie's figure skating sessions.  As I was scrolling through these images, I noticed that when I scrolled through the photos quickly, it was just like watching an old home movie.  "Hmmmm....  I wonder if I can put these photo together as a video?" I opened up my video editing software to see i...