Saturday, March 29
Journalling is suffering again. No excuse this time really except to say that it’s been an absolutely splendid week. Spent most of every day working around here. I cleaned up quite a bit around the house now that the snow is gone. Tuesday I bottled both batches of beer and I am very pleased with the taste of both of them. Also worked on the shed. Put the old window, removed from the house, in the west side, removed the door and am putting it to the left of where it was and making it wider. No problem starting the generator after the winter. Glad for that.
The driveway continues to be problematic. The spot where I dumped ashes melted most quickly such that there are many bare areas. But there are also many icy areas. Last night I arrived home about 7:40 PM and as it was dark and had been raining all day it was impossible to walk up the first 20 feet of driveway. I ended up pulling myself up along the edge with the help of the trees. After that I managed to find enough bare spots to struggle up the rest of the drive unaided.
Yesterday I drove to Sudbury and back. While there for about two hours, I bought a 1982 R100 RT BMW with sidecar attached for $8250. It's a nice rig and I felt quite at home sitting on it. Molly sat in the sidecar with only some minor coaching. This morning I saw a 1981 for 6800 US! I think I did okay price-wise. Now all I have to do is learn to ride it. The previous owner, Allison, is going to deliver it on April 12 and give me some lessons at that time. Also she already provided me with a manual about riding with a sidecar. It's from the US and is used in courses there. It's pretty scary but I'm sure I'll adapt fairly quickly.
The idea to buy a side car is something I dreamed up just recently and was set in motion by the arrival of spring and thoughts of riding again. The thing is, every time I went for a ride last summer and fall, I felt a strong sense of guilt because I had to leave Molly behind. Of course she made matters worse because she would know when I reached for my helmut or riding gear that she was about to be abandoned and her body language - ears pulled back, head down, body slouched and the ultimate plea, those big brown beautiful eyes looking at me as if to say “ Please don’t leave me here all alone.” kind of took the fun out of riding. So, I really had no choice in the matter.
The other news is that the spring is going full tilt today, it's up to the level it was at last year at this time so now because I dug the hole there's water at its origin.
