Talking Trash...

Did your mother ever wash out your mouth with soap...for trashing talk?

Based upon what I heard at ABC's Saturday adopt-a-highway work day...there was a lot of trashing talking.

 "Got soap?"

I know I have been a little feisty in getting this blog started.  So, for sure, I deserve to "bite the bar" for some of the "instigating" topics I have been harping on.  Please know it is the truth.  If my mother ever heard me say the words, "I am promoting...Cluster..."

WHACK!

She would have clobbered me with a back hand before I finished my utterance, "...Chaperons."

With tears in my eyes...I would have tried to explain to Mom that "leading" does not always need to occur from the front of the pack.  As a matter of fact, the best leading, which is often inspirational, has been done in the "depression of trenches".

You just know these two are TALKING TRASH!

Wally...don't mess with Lori on the topic of trash.
She can talk it with the best of them plus she is carrying extra bags.
Besides, she has one of those poky thingees...
Say one word about the "bags" and you'll be dead meat!

Here are the post highlights of my observations of folks serving in the trenches, demonstrating good potential as Cluster Chaperons, at the ABC's Route 303 Highway clean up:

• Every Trash Pick Up Day has a "WINNER!"
• Flocks flying in "Trashy Formations."
• Is Riding in "boots" Safe?
• Fishing for Treasures (Hong Kong Steve in Action)!
• Do you smell something funny (fowl)?
• Trash Hauling Two Step Dancing!

Thanks for checking out the TRASH!

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Holy COW! It is not all my fault!

Below is a screen capture of the BLOG SPOT, the host site, which provides some updates on "technical difficulties" that have snagged some...if not most of my efforts to get caught up on my COW posting activities.

The engineers have been adding some improvements...however, I can tell they still need to work out the bugs on "fixes" they have tried to implement.

Let's hope things stabilize soon!


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Honk, Honk, Honk!!! More Than a FULL HOUSE...

The lead "Grey Goose" has MIGRATED back home!

If there was one individual who has guided my cycling path, like the lead goose of a migrating "V" of geese, it would be none other than Wayne Ostrander.  Here is a "honk, honk" for showing me the way...good buddy!

Checking back in my biking log spreadsheet:

• I met Wayne in Lake Findley, NY on Thursday July 28, 2010
• That date was only nine days after getting "reluctant medical permission" to start riding again on 7/20/2010
• July 20, 2010 was forty-three days after my June 7, 2010 bus accident
• The "bus accident" was approximately 13 months after my "triple by pass" surgery in early May 2009
• Since starting biking riding in March of 2010, my career mileage, as of today is, 7,251 miles

While riding with Wayne today, I told him that running into the back of that school bus in Hudson, OH... was the best thing that ever could have happened to me.

Wayne said, "Say WHAT?"

I then went on to explain, “I am now living my life positively forward, while understanding it better backwards!"

Wayne's response back, "You really are a LUNATIC Kenneth!"

I pleaded my case....

If I had stopped in time to avoid the bus, and not broken my left shoulder in four spots, punctured a lung with a fractured rib, and incurred slow healing nerve damage to my left arm...I never would have met my best riding buddy Wayne!

Wayne knows that is the TRUTH!

Below are some more truths....
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