weekend: bikes and horses

[kirkcudbright]

- Went to Topsfield Fairgrounds for the farmers market, but it wasn't running this week, wtf. Instead was Clint Anderson's Down Under Horsemanship show, kind of like the Parelli event, only smaller. Checking the website would have saved us the time and bother.

+ Picked up some tomato plants at the farmers co-op across the street from the fairgrounds, to replace ones that were killed off by the heat while we were on vacation. So not a complete loss.

+++ Rode my first mission with SCUL. I rode War, a kids bike with a banana seat and BATTERING RAM. It wasn't technically challenging, although I don't think I've been on a single-speed coaster-brake bike since I was a kid. It was fun just riding with the pack of freaks, and I gunned for every pot hole and mud puddle I could find, because I could. Afterwards, I got to try Skylab, one of the tall bikes, which was OMG FUN, but technically challenging; I'll need some practice handling it on the street and in traffic before I'd consider taking it on a mission.

The target of the mission was a carnival in Lexington, which was obscenely muddy, with a barnyard smell, and a dead vibe, being at the end of a week-long run. But we rode the Haunted House ride (cheese-a-rific zombie-tronics), the Freak Out (more axes of acceleration than you really wanted), and the bumper cars (gunning for the tail-gunner).

++ Sunday pony encounter with lyonesse. We did the Two Hour Trail in 1:40, not going especially fast (but not especially slowly). Spotted a 2-pound sulfer shelf mushroom (aka Chicken of the Woods), which I went back later and picked. Them's good eating.

Comments

[ceo]

I'm glad to hear the Lexington carnival is still going on; I spent many a fun evening there as a kid. The SCUL crowd must have bemused the locals a bit. :-)

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

War is what I piloted as well, it was fun. The battering ram made me nervous about being in the pack, though.