Last weekend was our neighborhood block party, involving a large "Wall-E" bouncy castle, pot luck grub and lashing of beer from the
East End Brewing Company.
The kids spent about 9 straight hours bouncing on Wall-E apart from a few party games and other mandatory activities like consuming 10 million chocolate brownies and a few gallons of lemonade.
ALSO!!!........I have a new bike. I sold my poor unused road bike on Craigslist and spent the proceeds on a Surly Big Dummy frame set. Then I took my old mountain bike into the famous
"Kraynick's" bike shop in Garfield and stripped all the parts off it before using them to build up the Surly bike. Kraynick's is unique in that Mr Kraynick (Gerry to his mates) allows poor hapless souls like me to use all his bike tools and workshop space for free. So I did. Despite my complete lack of mechanical know how the project seemed to go pretty well. Well.....OK.....to be honest I had to take the bike into "Iron City Bikes" in Oakland where Steve and Luke did a fantastic job of undoing all my mistakes and tuning the bike to perfection.
The Big Dummy is a cargo bike that can also haul passengers. On Monday, Adam and I rode to his footy practice on it and this morning I loaded it with no less than 7 cardboard boxes packed with stuff I just sold on Ebay (more bike bits) and rode to the post office. Who needs a car???
Happy Autumn!
