Turkey Days

Day 87, 11/26/14

Rode to grocery to return Chef, the film.  Returned home to grab forgotten gloves. Then off to bank, Thirsty Scholar, and library.  Made it back to FW in time to see Jaime's award winning ginger bread house, the lighting and fireworks.

Above: Jaime's 2nd place ginger bread castle.  Left: the whole family enjoys Santa's display.  Right: Will and J await the fireworks.  Photos by Jill Schriner

Day 88

Home for the holidays.  After Thanksgiving dinner at the Hartman's I grabbed Dad's Schwinn and headed to the park for a nice ride along the river.


Day 89

Black Friday: Tooled around on George's dual suspension Trek while Sam brewed beer.  Can't figure out how to bunny hop a bike!

Day 90

Schaab Thanksgiving: deep fried best bird yet!
After packing up and saying goodbyes I remembered I hadn't ridden today.  Grabbed dad's Schwinn and zipped around a tight circle in the cul de sac 30-40 times.  Had to switch directions due to dizziness.

Jaunts

Day 84, 11/23/14

Got home from Chicago around 10:30 and walked home in the rain.  After making a quick dinner I hopped on Tom for the 2nd shortest ride since September.  I dodged raindrops while zipping through the Angie's List campus.  5 minutes tops.


Day 85

Rode to work, home for lunch, then back again.  It was 50 degrees this morning but in the 20's by the time I left at 5:30pm.


Day 86

Rode to work and walked back with Tom and Tom.... carried home a turkey Mr. Green ordered for me.

Sunshine and Rain

Day 82, 11/21/14

Rode to work where we had our pitch-in Thanksgiving Feast!  Sweet potatoes, deviled eggs, and stuffing where among the most notable, but everything was delicious!
After work I stopped at City Market for a trim and then to RAM and Sun King Breweries.

Beautiful day!

Indy Bike Hub at City Market

Day 83

Rode to Starbucks on the Circle to start the day with coffee.  Later to work to connect with weekend students.

Rainy, shit day!

Cold weather rides

Day 79, 11/18/14

Weather has turned for the worse!  Single digits this morning, only 4 degrees off of the record low.

Rode Bruce to and from work.  While it was cold, it was very clear and pleasant.  Considered going for an evening ride, but instead I went to bed at 9pm.


Day 80

Road Bruce to work and then took Tom to Killroy's to meet brother Sam for dinner.  Pacer's game followed where Lance Stevenson and Cody Zeller got beat at the hands of the last second put back of an air ball.


Day 81

Road to work and then to the first successful Indy Met for mentor session of the year.  My "Moving on Up" time improved further!

Snow Days

Day 77, 11/16/14

Sunday morning after sleeping in: Rode to grocery to get eggs and some canned goods.  Returned home to drop off the goods and then headed to the Library.  Finally, headed to Fountain Square Brewery for a delicious growler.

Took Bruce to Touchdown Town to work the food truck.  Scored a ticket to the game and road home in the snow as well.

TD Town pre snow days.  Photo from demotix.com

Day 78

This morning was spent fixing the chain on Bruce.  Last night I noticed a link was loose.  I tightened it this morning but the link became ultra-stiff.  After much fiddling and greasy hands I finally replaced the links and headed off to work.

There was snow on the ground and it was VERY cold!

Awards and Recognition

Day 75, 11/14/14

Early morning ride to Kurt's new house in Irvington.  He was generous enough to give me a ride to Employee Appreciation Day at Marriott East.  This event was actually really fun, mostly because I won!  Career Services Employee of the Year and 'Moving on Up' Minute to Win It game!

Only one of these vehicles had frost on it this morning.  The other got used.

Day 76

Beautiful morning for a ride!  Went to Madame Walker Theater at 8am for TCA commencement.  The ride home was as beautiful.  Because I was up until 4am the night before I promptly slept through the rest of the day.

Photo borrowed from HistoricIndianapolis.com

Butternuts

Day 72,  11/11/14

Rode around downtown before work.  Weather was still fair in AM
During the day the temperature dropped drastically.  Chilly ride home.  Realized I left my keys.  Chilly ride back again.


Day 73

Wintery cold day.  Rode to work after a brief AM run.  Another trip to get bread supplies.  And another to get SK while the bread was baking.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups cooked squash pureed
• 1 1/2 cups flour (I used GF oat flour)
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 2 flax eggs 
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ginger
• 1/4 tsp cloves
• 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325. 
• Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl. 
• Mix all wet in a smaller bowl. 
• Add wet to dry and place batter in a loaf pan.  I used an 8 inch loaf pan.
• Bake for 40 – 45 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean. Enjoy!

Recipe found on mywholefoodlife.com/


Road the bread and growler up to Paul's for a lovely pitch-in dinner.


Day 74

Rode Tom to work bundled up but opted out of the gloves.  I will be wearing gloves in the future.
Evening ride to the library for a movie and an article.

Happy Cranksgiving

Day 69   11/8/14

CRANKSGIVING 2014

The 3rd annual food drive/scavenger hunt was a huge success.  Showed up alone but quickly located many friends/riding buddies.  Had some drinks after and even road out to UPS store to pick up my fake check from Criagslist.  Long story.

Ivy's Trek 470

When asked about his Thickslicks Rob replied "they looking [freaking] awesome!

Post ride, all riders to the bar!

Day 70

Lovely Sunday rides.  Went with Stacey to check out Milktooth, eat at End of the Line, drink at Fountain Square Brewery.  All were excellent.  One of the riders hurt their crotch on the top tube.

Day 71

Rode to return library books and meet Paul for lunch at Ali Baba's Cafe.  Later biked to the Indy Hostel for Share the Road, a documentary on cycle touring.  Temps reached 62 today!

Last warm day on the Cultural Trail.

Full Moon Drive

Day 67   FULL MOON   11/6/14

Rode to and from work.  Drove to Broadripple for tea with a friend, then to rehearsal before heading back to Fountain Square to see The Ragbirds play The Hi-Fi.  Great show!

 

Album art courtesy of theragbirds.com

Day 68

Missed opportunities.  It was a beautiful day but I did not ride to Konesco's for our celebratory cook out, to UPS store for package pickup, or to Mundell's for board games etc.

Did, however, ride to and from work and walked with Joe, Wes, and Jason to Old Point for nachos,  Yum!

Daylight Savings Time

Day 64   11/3/14

Rode to and from work.  Last nice day this week (temps in the 60's) before rain comes in.  Also went for a nice evening run.  No basketball tonight as the Colts played on MNF.

Indianapolis Colts 40, New York Football Giants 24

Day 65

Still adjusting to last weekend's time change.  Up at 7, riding by 8.  Dropped off recycling at O'malia's before work.
Later that day rode to our corporate offices for a meeting.  There was a gentle mist when I left, but that quickly turned to rainfall which made for a soggy meeting.  Afterwards I stopped at the Library and picked up a slue of films.


Day 66

Again, rode before work then to work.  Beautiful, dry day.  After work headed back to the Library to start plotting out the 10,000 mile bike trip coming up next Spring!

Two Months Down

Day 60  10/30/14

Rode to and from work then welcomed Matt and Stacey into town.  Chauffeured for a bit then ended up at Ale Emporium, Sinking Ship, and finally Lockerbie Pub.


Day 61

Happy Halloween!  After sleeping through our 4am bus, we had to reschedule for 2pm.  Matt borrowed Tom to go to his conference and later I went to fetch some coffee.  Unfortunately, this mission was derailed by a steady rainfall.  I zipped Tony through the precipitation and located his fixed gear brother just in time to protect its leather seat with a plastic sack.  Coffee will have to wait.
After a long bus ride we ended up at a great airBnB location, had pizza at Mafiaoza's then stopped in at Santa's Pub which is highly recommended!


Day 62

Two full months of daily riding!  Stacey and I went to breakfast at The Flipside then stopped at Savant, Nashville's best vintage store (according to Vogue Magazine).  We then checked out a couple B Bikes and headed downtown.  Along the way we stopped at Jack White's studio, Third Man Records, where I recorded a vinyl in the same recording booth Neil Young recorded his A Letter Home album.

Stacey speaking on the phone safely behind traffic cone.

Also had drinks at 12 South Tap Room, Acme Feed and Seed, Rosepepper's Cantina, and finally Pinewood Social.  Pinewood is highly recommended!


Day 63

Enjoyed breakfast at The Frothy Monkey before riding the bus back home.  Did some serious couch sitting before heading out for a solo night ride with Tom.  Rode around the inside of the Circle no handed for one complete rotation.  Achievement unlocked!