Metric century!  This weekend I set a personal record with a 60+ mile bike ride. The regular groups for the 2nd Mile Adventures rides on Saturday have been petering out a bit, as it does with the changing weather, so there was no posted ride for the B group and only a 'riders' choice' for the A group. At 7:30 there were only 5 riders altogether including me. The others were all from A group, and they were planning a metric century ride. Since there were no other B riders, I thought I might as well go with them and stick with them as long as I can. Then I thought I'd just turn around at some point like 15 or 20 miles out and head home by myself. They did sandbag a little bit, I'm sure, but I was still with them as we rolled through Sidney and on into North Manchester where we stopped at Casey's. Come on, they said, go for the metric century with us! So I thought then that I would call Beth to come pick me up at some point out there. Well, we rolled though Roann before 3 of the A group decided to pick up the pace, but one of them stayed with me all the way home. I got you into this mess, he said, the least I can do is stay with you. So we rode all the rest of the way (even the hard way up Bonestead Rd) up through Silver Lake and Claypool and back to the Trailhouse. It was so long that my watch battery died and I don't know exactly how far it was, but it was about 65 miles altogether. Quite the ride!

We have the Hyundai back, finally. They finished with it and I picked it up on Tuesday, so it wasn't there a full week. But yep, over $2700. It drives nice now though, at least. Hopefully nothing else will break soon.

Soup season is in full swing now. Stuff's been ordered, jars dug out of the closets and cleaned, and everything crammed into the closets downstairs is coming upstairs again. The kitchen and dining rooms are a cluttered mess and we can't eat at the table. She's adding a new show this year, the DePuy craft show at Lakeview Middle School, so she's a bit stressed that she needs to stock two shows in quick succession. Well, she's well on the way.