This past weekend Jennifer and I enjoyed our bi-monthly supper club with Raigan, Eric, Joy and Stev, with Margaret hosting. Margaret prepared a most-excellent Chef Paul Prudhomme beef bourguignon. Her support call went out for crusty bread, some sort of green salad thingy, and desert. Raigan prepared an awesome green salad with apples, walnuts, and a raspberry(?) vinaigrette. And just because she is a suck-up keener, she also made a jammy appetizer that was enjoyed with crackers. Joy made a chocolate chocolaty chocolate cake with chocolate…

Spring (hopefully) is just around the corner – maybe two more weeks of really cold weather? This weekend was pretty awesome – we finally got a little glimmer of warmer days to come.With temperatures approaching 60 degrees, it was impossible to stay off the bike. On Saturday morning I got a little bit of a late jump on the day, but decided to head out to the Comet to ride anyway. At the 20 mile turn around, who do you think I ran into but Rocket Man…

OK, we didn’t really have soup, we had chili. Joy cooked the main dishes, and we all brought the surrounds. Just to prove how awesome she is Joy prepared not one but TWO different kinds of chili in fact: Chicken Tomatillo and a Beef Butternut Squash. Both were delicious, although I have to say I favored the chicken, if only slightly – but that could just be because I had Butternut Squash Stew for lunch and dinner the night before. JT made our  spicy cornbread –…

I finally got motivated this morning to get back out on the bike after a seven week hiatus. Throughout the whole ride the only thought that kept going through my head repeatedly was “70 miles!?! – 70 Miles ?!? – 70 miles!?! – seriously?!” This recurring thought was not caused by the fact that I was actually riding 70 miles – I was only out for 40. Rather it floated through my brain with every pedal stroke simply because whenever one of my feet would reach the…