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Monday Apr 14, 2008

And then there were 13

On Friday the kid's elementary school PTA held its annual carnival. One of the attractions was a petting zoo. They had goats, piglets, rabbits and chickens.

Karen has been trying to figure out what to do with one our young roosters, Harry, who was hatched out in early January. He's acting more and more like a rooster, and is getting a bit unpleasant to be around. Also, living in a suburban neighborhood, we think sure the neighbors might get annoyed with hearing a rooster in the early morning, so we've always intended to get rid of our roosters. Karen had posted a "free rooster" note on a pet chickens web site, but got no interest. The next alternative was to take him up to the feed store and give him away.

Anyway, back to the petting zoo. Karen asked the petting zoo owner if she'd take a Rhode Island Red rooster, and she said she would. So Karen got our rooster and took him over there.

Our son Nick was upset and said he was going to miss Harry, but hasn't talked that much about him since then, so maybe he won't miss him that much. He still has 9 other chicks, 4 hens, 3 cats, a brother and mom and dad on which to shower his affection, so maybe that's enough :).

Posted at 04:52PM Apr 14, 2008 by Dave Marquardt in Life  | 

Riding with Cyclopaths

On Thursday April 10 I decided to join a local cycling group, the Georgetown Cyclopaths, for one of their evening rides. I really love that name!

There were eight of us that met at Berry Springs Park and Preserve and headed out. One of the riders had an idea for a route, so we took the lead from him. We ended up getting in about 24 miles before finishing back at the start. This was a nice rural ride, going in a loop to the east, then north, west to Walburg, and back to Georgetown. I recorded the ride with my Garmin Forerunner 305 and uploaded it a couple of places:

Another interesting feature, at least to me, was the amount of poultry I heard while we were riding, since we have 13 chickens ourselves. I'm pretty sure I heard chickens, and I saw a sign about a guinea fowl crossing or something like that. I need to take Karen out there, since she's the person in our family who's really into poultry.

I enjoyed the ride, and will join the Cyclopaths again when I can.

Posted at 04:41PM Apr 14, 2008 by Dave Marquardt in Bicycling  | 

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