Sue, Tinkerbell, thanks for the welcome. Nice to meetcha! How's riding? Tinkerbell, the AIDS ride sounds hardcore.

Good news is, I got out for 12 miles this AM. Don't laugh--that's a pretty decent ride for me right now. Baby steps. It was super nice out, calm, 65 to start, all the birds singing and feeding kids, and butterflies starting to mass at the clovers. Almost bisected a garter snake--but a little fancy stepping on both our parts and he slithered safely off. Yeah it's great to be back on the bike. A new butt would be nice, though. Owww. Bummer that I missed the race in town, but that's par for me lately--haven't been up on events.