Thursday, September 25, 2008

Biking for the environment
























Back to blogging.....

Last Saturday Emma participated in a biking event to support environmental causes. I don't know much more about it other than she had to report to Diamond Point Park by 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning. She and a friend biked with the rest of the participants around Lake Bemidji. It took them about 2.5 hours, they did get a free lunch and a t-shirt out of the deal.

She decided to do this about a week before, but waited until the morning of the event to get the bike out of the shed.....the shed that is a habitat for a family of skunks. The bike hasn't been ridden in a few years, so it was covered with cob webs and smelled like skunk, plus the tires were flat!! So, on the way into town besides gassing up we had to inflate the bike tires. But, that's pretty normal for us, always running with only moments to spare if even that.

She told her friend about her bike smelling like skunk and she said 'Yeah, I thought I could smell skunk"! It's been sitting outside in the truck box now since last Saturday, so hopefully it doesn't stink anymore. Plus, it hasn't been stolen out of the truck....yet. I'll take it out tomorrow.

She made it around the lake successfully, tires even held out.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did your family of skunks move away? What about Oliver, did he ever tangle with the mother of the skunks? Nice picture of Em.

Anonymous said...

Ewww I look like a monster! haha

Niijii said...

I don't know, but he was tangling with something at 4:30 this morning. He's ok though.

Anonymous said...

yeah E told me about the skunks! Lol! nona