Tuesday 08-05-2018 – National Bike Month is On!

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8 May, 2018 at 4:24 am #867665

katzenjammer
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With the weather gradually improving (hopefully), many go the outdoor biking route. Including (of course) the kits!

Then there’s the KJ route! No potholes, no traffic, no weather worries!

8 May, 2018 at 4:26 am #867666

katzenjammer
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You knew this would happen: 😉 😛

8 May, 2018 at 6:49 am #867670

Moonshadow_NZ
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8 May, 2018 at 7:55 am #867671

katzenjammer
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Well MS – I blame you! 😉 😛

Kitting aside (pun intended!) – after purrussing your pics I was “compelled” to source me out yet another cycling T-shirt for what is a quite extensive collection. Looks like this will be the one in this very colour! Just waiting to hear back from vendor re a few queries, ie shipping method. But price is OK and who cares – it’s way kewel!

Close to 3 am and I am wide awake and even knowing why and that there’s nothing for it, well it stresses me out srsly. At least with added noon spin class I don’t have to get up way early. And physio told me that even if I can’t sleep so long as I am in bed mode am getting some rest.

Might have figured out knitting pattern, but think I’ll leave winding yarn until tomorrow. Good night *she said hopefully, sighing*

5 am still awake. If there were midnight oil I guess that I would have burned it.

PG, I noted in Mon Café that happily I do have Animal Planet on list of accessible channels and have now added it to fave list!

And I could very well be replacing my bed, whether I end up moving or not. Details/pic also in yest Café. Purrhaps new bed will help me sleep better? Nope, but whatever.

8 May, 2018 at 11:14 am #867678

Moonshadow_NZ
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😀 KJ, I will happily take the blame, seeing as I put that pic there just for you. I had a feeling you might enjoy it.
You tonight sounds very much like my last night. I hope you can get some shut eye though. Is Dorry entertaining you at all or is he curled up asleep totally unaware or your situation.
Is that a slat bed KJ? We have a box spring bed but when my legs are particularly restless I use Airy’s slat bed and find the support around the edge of the bed much more comfortable. Underneath there are many lidded containers on wheels full of her university papers. i do like the bed in your pic.

8 May, 2018 at 1:09 pm #867680

Kittyzee
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Good morning all. KJ, I know the feeling of not sleeping well…did that a couple of nights ago too — wide awake still at 3 a.m. We got a new bed a couple of months after my surgery. Ordered it online and was delivered right to the door. Needed help getting it upstairs, but we ditched the box springs. I ordered a nice wooden frame from Overstock and it had slats. We then put a couple of pieces of plywood on top of that. Then the mattress. It has been the best purchase ever! We bought a Cocoon, and their are many others that people seem to love.

Love the t-shirt too! Well, gotta get Avery into the tub and get our day started.

8 May, 2018 at 3:43 pm #867681

katzenjammer
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T-shirt is now on it’s way to my place! 🙂

So many platform beds online! Current one is a solid piece. Was going to get similar model, but will probably go for metal frame with slat mattress for support and no box spring req’d. I have a mattress and a topper otherwise it’s too hard for me. Some nice fabric upholstered bed frames, and leather-look, but the latter will get scratched and the former, will end up with me spilling coffee or bedtime chocolate ice cream snack or the like and having to spot clean, not a plan. For now in getting details confirmed, price comparison mode.

Anyway I’m trying to get my mo-jo up. Nice out and will go to spin class as per usual. No matter how wiped I am it tends to energize me nonetheless.

L8R!

8 May, 2018 at 5:18 pm #867682

Anonymous
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Good Morning efurryone,

I need a better plan and catnip field or wut? – LOL

How are you? I bought a platform for my bed last year and really has made a difference. KJ, MS and myself are all Born Leaders…where are my minions?! 😆

I was up all night and for many more, of late. About a month ago, I turned wrong and messed up my lower back and sciatic nerve. Despite exercise and stretching, it is sooo painful. 🙁 Any advice?

8 May, 2018 at 6:00 pm #867683

Jeankit
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Paw up waves – almost lunchtime on day 2 at this place.
Officemate went home sick – food poisoning from last nite’s Chinese meal 🙁
So, pile on desk is cleared up until later today!

Adding my 2.5 cents:

Warm weather fun…soon, our local Bikers will be competing in several races around area!

In the mean time Tuxie is enjoying a leisurely on pretty Spring day!

Ok – time for cuppa fave brew…on to lunch!

Tootsday Cheers…back on flip!

8 May, 2018 at 7:27 pm #867686

lagatta4
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That last cat obviously needs to get fitter!

Loved the bicycle race. I was out on my bicycle on a very sunny and almost warm day; I had to meet some work colleagues, then run a few errands. The “creative hub” just south of where I live, in former garment factories, has lots of bicycle parking but I was almost late looking for an empty place.

I love that t-shirt but alas I’m too “generously endowed” to have anything that attracts undue attention to that part of my anatomy. Would not have been my preference.

I will be buying a couple of pretty t-shirts at Simons, a chain that has garments I like, but they are plain v-necks in organic cotton. I’ve also found some skirts at MEC (Mountain Equipment Coop, a BC-based chain, that now has a wide range of fitness, travel and outdoor garments) and at Lolé that aren’t too short (they have to be at least a bit v-shaped on the bicycle; pencil skirts bunch up). I wear lycra shorts underneath if I’m going any distance.

There are many activities here in Montréal for cycle month and week. When it started decades ago, I went on a couple of the mass rides, but I don’t enjoy that any more. I will go to a talk on getting businesses onside with urban cycling, by an expert from London:

http://www.velo.qc.ca/en/govelo/operation-bike-to-work

http://www.velo.qc.ca/fr/govelo/Festival-Go-velo-Montreal

London is far behind Berlin and Paris, to say nothing of Amsterdam or Copenhagen, but this campaign does seem to be improving things.

8 May, 2018 at 7:56 pm #867687

AV
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Afternoon all! Mr. AV and I used to bike down bayshore and to downtown, it was fun until one evening I fell (well ok, there might have been wine involved) 🙄 but we haven’t lately because someone stole our bikes last year *sighs* and we haven’t replaced them yet.

Mr. AV got me wireless earbuds for the holidays, and I have enjoyed walking with them ….

Sorry for those with sleep issues …. we have a Temperpedic bed, and I cannot sleep in another kind now …. It completely cured any back pain I had, and haven’t looked back since ! …. going to a hotel kills me now! LOL

Well, time for me to wrap up another busy day, I can hear Lu crying upstairs for an afternoon snack …. can’t wait for them and Son to move into their new house, they will be in heaven with all the room to roam!

8 May, 2018 at 8:13 pm #867688

JerseyJoan
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Thanks for posting that earworm, KJ! Thought of that tune as soon as I saw the thread title.
My brother’s bike is in my yard – I use the old newspaper baskets as planters. The handle bars have long since rusted off so I stuck plastic flowers in the hole.
There’s also an antique bike in the yard that hubby got from an estate sale. Not sure what he’s going to do with it.
I loved riding my bike as a kid. Nowadays I stick to walking these mountain roads and paths!

8 May, 2018 at 9:19 pm #867689

katzenjammer
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PG, I’m not a med prof, but since you asked, that’s who’d I’d ask. Often, me being the easily-stressed type (no!) I call my physio with something that thankfully turns out to be overuse, or slight strain or overuse. And then it’s a bit of time, ice/arnica, Epsom salts bath and my go-to Tylenol. BTW the I’net is the absolute worst place to see medical advice.

So you might want to see your GP and based on what you’re told see if between the two of you a plan can be devised so that you can feel better. Hope this helps.

JJ, here’s a thought re antique cycle. How about putting a basket(s) on it, if it does not already have one, perhaps a wicker or wire one would look neat. And then putting a plant(s)/flowers/foliage in them. here are 2 ideas from I’Net, there are loads more if you google “basket planter on antique bike” and images.

Or teaching one of the kits how to ride, although that might me quite the challenge.

I’m beyond whacked but as per did a good class. N coming by and I have some artsy craftsy things to do, like re-arranging my jewel box. Picked up some neat unfinished boxes at $$ store and think that with a lick of paint they will do a good organizing job.

8 May, 2018 at 11:56 pm #867693

AV
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Oh those bikes remind me of Jcat! I miss her being on here.

9 May, 2018 at 12:04 am #867694

lagatta4
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My trusty old bike is a Raleigh sprite mixte from the 1970s. Not very modern. But I’m older than she is. Fortunately, I have a bicycle mechanic who loves to work on classic bikes.

9 May, 2018 at 1:33 am #867696

PollyMonster
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Great pics! Love the ‘better plan’ and the painting Tux. I’m not a cyclist – I’m inherently unbalanced – but I have a T-shirt collecting friend who cycles a lot. Hmm. Not that it’s going to be cycling weather around here for a while – at last we’re forecast to get NZ amounts of rain, all at once in a 3-day period. Expect chaos. Last time they predicted this amount of rain in one bout they got the amount right but the location was out by some distance – it missed central Melbourne and instead devastated the rural township of Euroa.

9 May, 2018 at 3:48 am #867703

Anonymous
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You’re right, KJ. I did call my GP…more later.

inherently unbalanced? interesting, PM.

9 May, 2018 at 4:40 am #867704

katzenjammer
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Good that you called GP, PG (interesting how initials reverse.)

I am also taken by the term “inherently unbalanced”.

When I was a very much younger KJ, some bullying older girls somehow convinced me to ride my tricycle down the front stairs. Strange how I recall that they were munching that pink popcorn and chuckling next memory is of my chin splitting open and blood everywhere! Think that I might have tried learning to ride a bike one more time and never again. Spin cycle is a totally diff story and IMHO the toughest and most fun wkt ever.

N was here for pm and early evening. She likes the bed that I’d like and will ask BF if he can get it for me at employee rate. Like $100 difference! If not it’s still a good deal. Plus she offered to take current bed for her son. I like my things to go to good peeps rather than out on the street. She also says that even if my place is not sold it’s time to move, for many reasons. But not to stress out about it today. me not stressing is like trying to get a stream to flow uphill, but well, OK. 😉

Off to open Wed Café and cannot do the bedtime at 6:30 am thing again. Even though (and I do have a good book awaiting me) …

9 May, 2018 at 1:03 pm #867710

lagatta4
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Unfortunately I didn’t have Livia at that size. Even Renzo was a bit older, though still a kitten, when I adopted him. Guess that is a downside of adopting strays. But Livia is so affectionate, and as playful as a kitten.

At least people are talking about bullying now. It doesn’t mean just teasing, it can cause serious harm.

That sounds like quite a rainstorm! The Dutch cycle in the rain more often than not, but it isn’t usually so heavy and they are equipped for it.

The “Pussy Patrol” and other cat rescuers use bicycles and adult tricycles to aid stray cats, exploring alleys and other places the latter live in. Some are adoptable, others too feral so then it is a matter of trap, neuter an release.

I’m putting their Facebook page here, as a Google search for the name turns up some very nasty stuff (not photos, just words) that are most unfit for this site or any one I’d want to visit:
https://www.facebook.com/The-Pussy-Patrol-Cat-Adoption-Page-134393486650277/ (don’t worry, just cat pics). And their website. I’m very busy these days, but I’ll try to find the time to translate at least part of it. http://www.pussiepatrolcatrescue.com/ Note spelling of pussie.

9 May, 2018 at 2:05 pm #867711

Anonymous
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Only seben storeez? My dad used his “Spanglish” for cats = pussigatos. I was very naive about the internet when I set up my email. It was similar to what you found Lagatta.
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