Beautiful riding weather today. Sunny and in the 50's. a light NW wind. We were happy to get out and ride, seems like we had rain, rain, and more rain. Creeks and rivers are flooded, have to go check on the row boat and paddle boat l down by the lake, later on, need to make sure they aren't in the water. Rose Lake is a spring fed lake, so it doesn't get as high as some creek fed lakes in the area, but this is the highest we've seen it in the 15 years we've lived here.
We rode to church, on the way there got chased by a boxer for about 1/4 of a mile. He didn't seems to want to bite us, or i think he would have. He was braking and carrying on. Came up on us out of nowhere, several times we thought he was done, and then here he would come again. Blew the air horn, scared him, but less than 30 seconds later, he was on our tail again. I finally stopped, figuring he would give up if he had nothing to chase. Just then a car came by, and since it was moving and we weren't, it became his new game. Glad he wasn't mean, as quick as he came up on us, he would have nailed one of us before we even had time to react. It didn't help matters any, that we were going up a hill. Slower than a slug on hills, that's us for sure. We have ridden this route many times, saw him once last year out with his owner. he chased us then too, but the owner called him back.
Took a break at church, then headed to 17 mile road, before going home. On the corner of 140th and 19 mile there is a good sized hunk of pavement gone. A few other roads in the area have places washed out too. Once we turned on 17 mile we saw some cows and horses. For some reason horses quite often seem to be interested in us, but of course they weren't looking when I took the picture. They don't usually get to interested until we are riding right past them. It was so nice to see some green grass today. Many trees have buds on them, so hopefully we will have lear living 90 miles south of here in Grand Rapids for so many years, where spring arrives 2 weeks earlier, we are impatient for the arrival of warm air, green grass, leaves and flowers. Rode by the goose, but she didn't hiss at us today. Across the road, the cows mooed at us, and the rooster crowed. A country serenade, just for us.
We rode by a country church on 17 mile Rd, there is an old school house across the street from it. Not sure if it is used for community events, or if someone down state owns it, we never see anyone there, but it has obviously had some work done on it, and there are curtains on the windows. Maybe some day we'll ride by there and someone will actually be there.
Pedaled by a couple barns. I love old barns, but it saddens me to see one unused and falling down. Both that we passed today were in use. One had a big quilters square painted on it, which is an indicator that a member of the local quilt guild lives there. We see them on various barns, garage doors and house. Each square is unique, just as it is on a quilt.
Tomorrow we'll be getting our camping trailer ready to head to WI. We'll be glad o get the mountain drive done on the trike and to get the gearing squared away. We're tired of the same routes, but don't want to tackle bigger hills until our trike is working right. Rode 25 miles today.ves in the next few weeks. After the trike is in tip top shape we can tackle any hill in the area, without our knees paying for it.
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