Sunday April 19 rides

[Possegal]

My sister and brother-in-law and I rode in the Girls with Gears charity bike ride in Limerick, PA. We did the 40 mile ride, had a good bit of hills to climb (my Garmin told me about 3700 ft total climbing). I toyed a few times with the idea of - the next hill, I've got to just walk it. But I never did. Which for me is a great accomplishment. Now if I could find a way to challenge myself like that regularly, maybe I could start dropping some pounds.

It was a really nice ride though, and a lovely day, and it would have been our mother's 90th bday if she were still here - so we rode with her picture on our backs.

[sundial]

Your mother looks so sweet. I am really touched by your photo.

[Possegal]

Thank you, I'm missing her extra hard right now. That picture is known in our family as "biker Meem" (Meem being what the grandkids called her). She joked once about those "Glamour Shots" stores and my one sister in law thought she was serious and got her a gift certificate for Christmas. Mum did NOT want to go do it, she hated having her pic taken and nearly never took a good photo. The day it was to expire she was hoping they forgot, but my brother called her and off they went. In the end, she had a BALL, the people there had even more fun with her, and we got his amazing photo of her. She was a pistol and it was an honor to be her daughter.

Sorry, feeling a tad emotional. Added to the emotion, while we were at our ride out near Philly, back in our hometown of Pittsburgh there was a fire in one of the 5 apartments in the building she/we lived in for 20 yrs and a woman I've known my whole life died in it. http://kdka.com/video/?id=56307%40kdka.dayport.com It was shocking to see the video online.

Yesterday was a very very difficult day, but with a beautiful bike ride with 2 people I love in there too. I guess I'm still processing it all.

[OakLeaf]

Oh (((((Posse)))))