Another good weekend ride

Busted!


I made these cinnamon raisin bagels last week.


I bought a couple of these marzipan penguins from Huckleberries in Spokane a couple weeks ago. Marzipan is just one of the best things ever.


Hitcher and Shamus are getting along better and better all the time. This was the first time they had ever curled up together.

My car is finally home, after about 7 weeks in the body shop. Ted and I drove to Spokane Wednesday to pick it up, trading in the loaner for the RAV 4. Everyone told me my car would look brand new, but it's really amazing when you see it in person after seeing what it looked like after the deer. You would never know anything happened to it. It seems to drive fine, which is all that really matters.

We got another long ride in yesterday, doing the same route Ted and I did last Saturday. This time, however, we had seven starters, with five of us doing the whole ride. And, we rode all the way to the top of the Lewiston Grade, our final grade, giving us six more miles and 1200 more feet of climbing over last week. The grand total was over 8800 feet of climbing over 77 miles. We were all pretty blown by the end of it, but it was a really good group ride... one of the best group rides I've been on in a while. There were no hammerheads or super slowpokes, making for a nice, evenly-paced ride. With three grades and two other significant climbs, people had plenty of opportunities to go faster or harder if they felt so inclined.

Yet again, we have more snow today in Pullman. It's been snowing since early this morning. Enough is enough! Where is Spring?