Tidbits

Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

I’m a Happy Meal with Legs

July 29, 2006, 1:55 am

It’s been a bit rainy all week, and so didn’t bike to work. Well rest of today was pretty nice, so after dinner, we decided to bike around. I just wanted to go around the “neighbourhood”, but Mike decided to head down Conservation to the middle of nowhere, all the way to Erbsville. We found the go-karting place, which has a good deal on Tues and Thurs… Anyways, after biking around the Laurel Wood residential area, we were on the way back home when Mike got sick of looking at different houses, and started going down bike trails.

We turn down this particular path, which started well enough, nice and paved around a stillwater pond. It thought it was rather overkill to have a paved path going around a drainage hole… Then the path turned to gravel, which was still fine, and then it turned to a wide grass path through the middle fo the woods. Hmm, we are in the middle of a residential neighbourhood, it must lead back to the road, right? Oh how wrong we were. We should have remember that we are very close to the Conservation area. The path stayed wide enough to bike on, but then the trees and bushes started invading the path, the sun was setting so the insect life was out in full. It was too late to turn back… We could see houses just beyond the trees on our right, when is it going to go back to the road??

And then we hit a sign that said the nature trail is closed after hours, and is a restricted area for school groups only. Like dude, shouldn’t the OTHER SIDE have a sign as well?? The woods ended, (yay!), and the path leading out of it is a narrow walking trail that could barely be seen in the SHOULDERH-HIGH grass and weeds! We can see more houses now, but they all have fences, and no paths to them.. I was really contemplating fighting my way there anyways and just tossing my bike over the fence, hoping they won’t mind… and the grass finally ended in blessful sidewalk.

So we were EATEN ALIVE! Even me! I rarely get bitten, and I had like ten bites, including one on my LIP! Those mosquitoes are desperate little suckers, I figured they are starving since nobody is STUPID enough to in those woods after dark, or ever really, and any blood is good enough for them.

Rugh, so lesson for you all.. If the “bike” trail becomes a grass path… Don’t follow it!