Let Me Continue.......

Getting back to Sunday afternoon, Bike man and I invited the youngins over for a meal. These are the young people that Bike man worked with this summer with all his lake and stream monitoring.

Jake just happens to be an Americorp Vista worker at UW-Stout, and that's his wife Erin, who is working on her Masters at UW-Madison and has spent a lot of time in Northern WI lake monitoring. I made a bunch of food.......used lots of vegetables from my garden. We had a good time Sunday afternoon. So fifteen minutes after this group left, I received the call from Jim and Julie looking for a place to crash (Warmshowers)! We haven't been that busy on a Sunday in a long time. I loved it.

I was actually very tired yesterday and today so decided not to ride. Instead, I will devote most of this week to packing for our bicycle trip. Can you believe all that stuff in the photo above? Ha.....that's just my stuff!!!! Really, I'm trying to go lighter this time. I basically need to have everything packed and ready to go by Friday since Saturday I'm hosting a birthday party for myself and then we take off on Sunday mid morning for our big trip to Dubuque, IA. Maybe, just maybe, if I get everything put together for the bike trip, then hopefully I can do a trail ride on Thursday.