4/19 rides

[Susan126]

Sundial, I would love to send you some pizzelles! No one should walk around this planet without having tasted a pizzelle! I'm going to make a batch again on Thursday for my son and for our trip to Leavenworth this coming weekend. Joe and I and another couple are riding in the Ale Fest. Ale Fest Bike Ride The 75 mile course was cancelled because of SNOW still lying on the ground in the mountains over there. We'll be doing the 50 mile course. I'm taking my camera along! Just let me know where to send the pizzelles and I will send you a dozen!

Joe and I went for a walk yesterday late afternoon. The sun actually did come out for a brief period. I wanted to be on my bike so badly! The air was down right cold! The wind was just chilly! We walked for about 40 minutes and by the time we got back home snow flakes started coming down again!

It's Sunday morning and my thermometer says 36 F (2 C) Brrrrrr hopefully it will warm up and the rain/snow will not come today. I want to ride!

Sue

[Bad JuJu]

Sigh . . . well here are a few pictures of me making pizzelles on this not so fine spring day!

Pizzelles! Yum! When I was in the navy, my Italian friend's mom used to send her pizzelles--and she was so good about sharing. You could do worse things on a day that didn't lend itself to riding.

[Zen]

Pizelles
I knew they must be bad for you.
I dare not taste a one,cookies are my Kryptonite

[solorider]

I still have my fingers crossed that we're finally done with the snow here in Michigan- we had loads of it this year and I'm really ready for spring to stay! sorry to hear that some of you are still getting dumped on...

I finally was able to get in a longer ride today - I'm hoping to do a 75 mile ride 2 weeks from today- but have only managed to fit in commutes so far this year.

Today was a nice cool comfortable 45 F, and foggy, and a great ride- I fit in 25 miles before my in laws got into town- and it felt so good to be on the bike for longer than my 20 minute commute, and seeing some different scenery. I found a new route that I hadn't tried before that thankfully was a road with very few potholes.

the pizzelles sound great- I haven't had any made fresh in many many years.

[Susan126]

OH Cookies are my kryptonite too! I usually make them to give away. I'm sending some to my son this week plus I'm taking some in to a friend at work who helped me with a project. A nice way to say thank you. Oh I do eat a few for myself but they are nice quick and easy cookie for me to make for people. And my friends just LOVE them.

You can shape them into a tube too. When they first come off the iron they are still soft. You have to work fast because they "harden" up FAST! Sometimes I will roll them around a thick wooden dile. After a few seconds I remove them and I have a "tube" shape which I can fill with my cream cheese frosting using my pastry bag and tip. And I even add frest summer berries along with the frosting too! Now these are no doubt a lot worse for you but they are also very delicious too! I usually make these in the summer as an after dinner or after bbq dessert. For company usually. Great with coffee, iced or hot!

Oh well I just bike an extra 20 miles after eating one of those!

Forgot to add . . . Joe and I went to the gym today. We did 50 minutes on the eliptical machine, 10 minutes on the stairs, and then did some weights. Tomorrow after work I hope to get a bike ride in! Depending on weather!

[Fredwina]

Yea, that's a bummer

Shrinks the bummedness of people leaving when you change yer glasses... but that's a bummer too. It's just a thing, though - we still talk about the time my buddy was changing his shirt, and sprinkles started, and the whole group took off like bats from Hades as if they MIGHT avoid getting wet.

Poor blighter. HOPE it's something he can fully recover from.

I just heard he's been declared Brain dead

[sundial]

Sundial, I would love to send you some pizzelles! No one should walk around this planet without having tasted a pizzelle!
Sue

Really?? You will?? Oh Joy! I've never had a pizzelle. Do I have to share with my husband?

Fredwina, what terrible news about the rider.

[Susan126]

Really?? You will?? Oh Joy! I've never had a pizzelle. Do I have to share with my husband?

Only if you want to share with hubby!!!! I sent you a PM.

[tulip]

Saturday's ride was great, a nice couple-o-hours ramble near the Chesapeake Bay. It was in the 80s! And sunny! And I even have a bit of a tan line on my legs! I rode my lil bike friday and it was just great. Next week is the century, and then the next week it's off to france with the p'tit velo.

[Susan126]

Tulip, rub it in! 80 F, tan lines, nice bike ride! I am so jealous! The last week here in the "mild" Pacific Northwest felt more like February instead of the end of April! And good luck on your century!!!! With so little ride time this season I could not do a century today. I hope to be able to do one though by June! Weather permitting!!!! And off to France! Now my jealousy went up about a degree or two! Take pictures to share with us here at TE!

Pedal On!

Sue

[tulip]

...And good luck on your century!!!! With so little ride time this season I could not do a century today...

I haven't been riding enough, but I'll try it anyways. It's a good ride, with the best biscuits in the South, apparently. So I'll just ride from biscuit to biscuit and at the end of the day, perhaps I'll have 100 miles. It'll be a good jump start to my riding, and a good warm up for the France trip. Pics and report for sure at the end of May.