So I've been putting my trailer to a lot of use the past week. I decided I wanted to put new raised beds in my front yard (I had one that was falling apart) and being that I've been participating in a trip reduction promotion put on by the city I challenged myself to pick the raised bed kits with my bike and trailer.

This blossomed into doing the whole project by bike/foot - compost, fertilizer, a 3rd raised bed kit and all.. and in doing this I've realized a few things.

I may have been towing with the wrong bike.. I probably should have been using the cross bike with its much smaller gearing - 100+ lbs even up a relatively minor 3-4% feels like 20%....

I enjoy eating far more than putting gas in the car.... haul around a hundred extra pounds, even for a short trip and you feel like eating

being limited to around 100 lbs per load, while causing me to perhaps take a few more trips to the store, also makes me do/plan my project in much more manageable bites..... I think I may have actually accomplished more for the time because it was broken down into smaller parts that felt easier to finish. And the hardware store is mercifully a fairly short trip - about 15 min down unloaded and 30 back (and even if you drive... how many times do you forget something or find you need something else and have to go back anyway....)

You can make people smile just by saying bike and chicken poo in the same sentence (and yes I brought home 3 bags of that)

Well... time to go plant my beans