It’s back to work week for me! And it’ll be back to school week next week. Both of these present challenges, but I’m also participating in a couple of bike challenges this month. 30 Days of Biking has returned for September! This Minneapolis-based event is open to everyone in the world. The only rule for [...]
Yes, we’re in the midst of a 90-degrees-plus (Fahrenheit) heat wave, and I’m blogging about winter. No, it doesn’t keep me particularly cool. In fact, my first reaction to seeing Cooking Up a Story’s video on starting a winter garden is to resist, run, hide my head under a pillow. I have enough work to [...]
The sun and heat have finally arrived in Oregon! We had a very cool, wet spring (almost a non-spring), which did affect gardens. But now the tomato plants are doing well, although there’s still no fruit. And we should be eating zucchini within a day or two. The carrots and green onions are finally getting [...]
It all started with a piece on BikePortland about the Community Cycling Center’s findings on the lack of racial diversity in bicycling. I heard about it because BikePortland mentioned on Twitter that Jack Bogdanski of Jack Bog’s Blog had made note of the piece. He called the report “sad, funny, or both,” chastising the CCC [...]
Posted on April 02nd, 2010 in Cycling
I rode my bike two days in row. Shocking, I know! Today was the second day of 30 Days of Biking. I rode my bike to work as usual yesterday, but not today. Today’s weather included wind (with high wind warnings), rain, hail, sunshine, and temperatures in the low 40s. This morning was awful, and [...]
We officially started planting the vegetable garden this weekend. I’ve been wanting to put in peas ever since a sunny Saturday in mid-January. I weeded the beds and stirred up the soil in short sleeves, reveling in the scent of rosemary, lavender, and good clean dirt. I was tempted to sow a few seeds while [...]
Posted on February 26th, 2010 in Sustainability
If you don’t live in Portland, you probably don’t know that a Portland man, Aaron Campbell, was shot and killed by police at the end of January. This happened in an apartment complex fairly close to where we live, and many people believe the police acted improperly (although a grand jury cleared the officer of [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2010 in Cycling
Portland may be a bicycling mecca, but out where I live? Not so much. I’m in East Portland, which used to be farmland and was later converted into suburbia. We have large residential-only districts, big-box shopping centers, and wide, busy arterial streets. There are some streets with good bike lanes, and there are quiet residential [...]
