Adventures With Nancy: JUST A RIDE

Sometimes I get bored and in a less than stellar frame of mind from riding my same routes over and over and over again. For that reason it would have been difficult to get me out on one of those routes yesterday (Saturday 6/18) even if weather had been good. It wasn’t. At least the early and mid morning weather was wet, gray, coldish and very misty when not actually raining. By early afternoon it got better but by then I was not interested.

So today (Sunday) I decided to do a longer ride, although a wait until mid to late morning was required for the best weather. I spied the (what many of us here call) ‘sucker hole’. Suckers you in to believe the weather will be good, with maybe some sun, for a bike ride, but maybe could revert back to rain. I chose to believe it would be good.

Though I got a few photos along the way, I was not intent on meeting any self imposed ‘demands’ to meet any challenges.

Leaving home I rode along a nearby, recently repaved road that has these new lane markings that afford cyclists a bit more safety.

Sundays are usually such good days for cycling. I don’t know where they usually are — church? Watching ball games? Reading the paper in bed? — but most often on this day they are not out driving around, which makes for much less auto traffic, and the roads are quiet enough to hear the birds than they are on any other day of cycling. That was somewhat true, at least on neighborhood roads. Perhaps because I had to leave a little later in the late morning it gave them a chance to wake up, get up, and get out as I did have more traffic than expected on the main roads.

I pulled into the fence company parking lot for the two red Adirondack chairs I found so colorful and inviting.

Around the bend from the chairs was a display of some of the fencing they offer. Who knew there would be so many choices for a simple thing as a fence!

I had an inkling to ride to Perrinville for a stop at the Bistro for tea and crumpet. I don’t often ride there as I recall the road not being so great, and sure enough — I am right about that. There was a decent amount of traffic, and though the speed limit is not fast, the car lanes are not terribly wide, and there is no lane marker for bike or curb lane. I will be taking this route off of my rotation for rides from home, and will ride it only when necessary if riding to Edmonds for something — like to catch the ferry.

I was happy to see the open sign at the Bistro, but when I got to the front of the building, the waiting line outside the door deterred me from stopping.

I passed by Lake Serene and saw the horse I often get a glimpse of when riding here. For a long time I had not seen it, and wonder why it is ok to have a horse within a town that I cannot imagine zoning allows. Maybe they are “grandfathered’” in, but I feel kind of bad for the horse to have only a small yard to wander in rather than a big field. Doesn’t seem fair to the horse.

Another house along the lake has this sign that I like.