Creating a Work-Life Balance, Even if it Kills Me

We were pretty bummed about the weather last weekend in Farmington.  It put the kibosh on the race for us.  I had Friday morning off, so I drove back down to St. Joe State Park to hit the trail hard, for three laps, just like the race would have been for me.  Well, it was still pretty soft.  I didn't let it bum me out, I just went hard and had fun and got a good workout.  I even took the hardtail shit bike and it was perfectly awesome. Then I drove home and went to the shop to work.

Although I don't have photographic evidence, I have been riding with a certain someone to get them back onto the bike after an injury.  Perhaps a few days before they have gotten the okey-dokey from the doctor to do so.  Life happens!  So I did get a photo of the ceiling fan that I installed.  3 down, 3 to go!

I do have photographic evidence of my oldest baby and me going for a kick-ass road ride.  She's done a few miles lately with the Girls Night Out crew from the shop, and she's getting into it.  I took her out to Wildwood and started at Greensfelder and did some great roads.  She's quite the natural, and she loves to remind me that she was a multiple winner of the Gateway Cup kids races...

 ...and our first attempt at a selfie went a little wrong and we took full advantage of it!

Bad Blogger - I will Make the Excuse that I'm Busy

I really am busy.  It's a pretty lame excuse, but the shop takes up so much time.  The Beautiful Mrs. K and I have very little free time these days and it takes a lot of effort to sit down and write these wonderfully crafted posts... :)  Anyway, this is a perfect time to show off my amazing firstborn child, Hanna.  She's recently become our social media person for the shop, and of course, she is our styling coordinator as well. Now, she's riding in our Girls Night Out (GNO) rides.  Since Mrs. K's bike has been available, she's riding that and having a good time.  She calls road bikes "curly bar bikes", so you know she is serious.

I was able to get down to St. Joe State Park last week, in anticipation of the race there.  The course was super fun and fast.  Alas, Farmington experienced a Noah's Ark-type flood the morning of the race and we bailed out after only driving a few miles down highway 55.  So, we turned around and headed north.

North into Illinois, to Litchfield and the Route 66 trails at Lake Lou Yaeger park.  It was Eli's idea, and it turned out to be a good one.  We had visited these trails about 6 months ago, and were happy to see they had added more.  It was a blast.  Best thing:  we arrived about 9:30am and there was no one there.  Really, just a few walkers and two riders!  Even the lake was lonely.  By the time we left, there were a few more people but very surprisingly, it was wide open for us.

 I had to strike a pose with the new, more colorful SSC kit.  I had thought that the black kit would be my favorite.  But it turns out, color is cool.  Eli and I both sported our new duds, but he declothed to quickly for me to take a pic of him.

Handyman Stuff

Although I did get a couple ceiling fans in the kids' rooms replaced recently, I am way behind on my handyman stuff at home.  This kitchen faucet, which I replaced in 2016, has been a thorn in my side for years.  It has shuddered and leaked and at times just stopped dispensing water.  Good riddance.  

It doesn't take long, nor does it take a ton of skill to put in a new faucet.  But it does take a bit of contortionism.  The new faucet works....for now.

 Perhaps contortionism is not my forte.  I zigged when I should have zagged and the door hinge on the cabinet under the sink let me know that it was a bad idea.

But the faucet works!