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| Rylie being forced to enjoy the holiday season. |
I've had the same bike stand for about a decade now and while my Park Tool stand is still going strong, it was designed for someone who looks up to Snookie, height wise. I decided it was finally time to make the stand a proper height. After some careful measuring and a trip to Home Depot, I was lucky enough to find that a steel fence post was the same diameter as the stand. A hacksaw, a drill, and a few bolts later and I finally have a stand that I can use while standing!
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| Short and useless for anyone taller than Webster. | |
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| Finally, a useful stand! Now I have no excuses for not overhauling my bikes. |
Last year, Ruth and I went out and chopped down our own Christmas tree. It was fun and a nice afternoon together, so we decided to do that again this year. We walked out the front door to head to Home Depot for the bike stand and were hit by pouring rain and miserable cold. While in the store, it was mutually decided to abandon the whole "Walking through a forest for an hour and freezing" thing and head into the Home Depot garden center to get a Christmas tree. However, we had not planned on the garden center not having a roof. While getting rained on, we quickly decided on a tree height and grabbed the first wrapped tree we came too. Ruth dubbed it our scratch-ticket Christmas tree, as there was no guarantee of winning! We threw the tree in the back of the van and headed home to find out what we bought.
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| This is how it looked in the store and how we purchased it. Sight unseen! |
With the tree firmly in our stand, I cut the netting off to reveal our living room decoration for the next month. Needless to say, we will be unwrapping the tree prior to purchase next year. After it settled, it did look okay and once it was decorated, looked fine. It was a fun afternoon though, and I'm always up for doing something random and different.
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| With all of the decorations, it looks like a typical tree! |
We wrapped up the night with a trip to the Issaquah XXX Drive in. When I first moved here, I thought it was an adult bookstore, but it's actually a local restauraunt. I heard they had good burgers, so we went to investigate. I was hungry, so I ordered their namesake "XXX burger" without really reading the description. I was a little shocked when I saw what they were bringing me. This was the largest diameter burger I've ever had, by far!
Me: "Do you have a knife?"
Waitress: "Hands at 5 and 7. Enjoy!"
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| It's a good thing I have big hands. |
To rid my guilt from the burger, I had to go test out some new gear on Grand Ridge the next day. I'm really excited to be working with Camelbak and Clif Bar for next season. I grabbed the futuristic looking MULE pack and hit the trails. I was so happy with the MULE at the end of the ride. The metallic looking fabric is so easy to clean, which is a necessity here in the Pacific Northwest. I've used both Clif Bars and Camelbaks for years, so it was an easy relationship to start. It's great being able to ride for companies you actually use, and believe in! I'll have some more product shots and comments in future updates.
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| The bare necessities of life, food and water! |
Charlie Sponsel from Team Robot is coming up for the weekend, I'm buying a dirt bike, and I've got another shoot planned with Andy Tran soon. More info on all of that in the next update!
-KT
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