Category: bikes

08/23/15 10:28 - 77.ºF - ID#60176

Industrial bike ride - Buffalo Color Cor

It seems all I do is post about bike rides. I've been packing them in before the summer ends.

While (e:paul) napped on Saturday, (e:terry) and I took a trip around South Buffalo. This time we took a different route involving Elk Street and a lot of the old industrial areas.

We took a peak at this abandoned factory that I've never seen before, by the rail tracks between Elk and South Park. It turns out it belonged to the Buffalo Color Corporation -

. You can view pictures of the factory before it was completely gutted. The site was a superfund site since producing indigo dye is highly toxic.

The windows are all gone and the building is ripe for exploring. it looks like it might be demolished soon

While in South Buffalo we saw this church with actual bells ringing. I thought they were all speakers now but apparently not.

Speaking of churches, we rode through Caz Park and heard these religious nutjobs ranting about abortion. Why are they allowed to use a public resource to scream their brand of crazy?

The creek

Before we got home, we stopped for an iced coffee at Grindhaus Cafe on Allen. The menu is limited to a few sandwiches (almost all vegan) and pour over coffee, but they have an amazing chia pudding. We brought home one for (e:paul). My cup tells me I'm str8t now.

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Category: food

08/23/15 10:26 - 77.ºF - ID#60174

Bubblegum plums

(e:paul) and I found these at the Clinton-Bailey farmers market. I've never heard of these before. They aren't ripe yet but they emit a fruity, bubblegum smell.

I'm sure (e:paul) will post more about it so here's just a few pictures.

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Category: family

08/23/15 10:26 - 77.ºF - ID#60173

Family trip to Letchworth

Friday night, we met up with my family at Letchworth for a cookout. Emily and Daniel are back at school already, so it was a last ditch effort for the summer. Midnight was chased and bocce was played.

Mary made me an amazing veggie burger, which was perfect with my mom's taboleh. At the end of the night, we cooked smores.

Daniel's instagram glasses

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Category: bikes

08/23/15 10:24 - 77.ºF - ID#60172

Valle de Mexico

The Black Rock Rollers ride went down this week to Valle de Mexico on South Park. I didn't like it before but this time was amazing. (e:joe,59217)

There were 10 of us on the ride. The owner was so excited to have a bike group there - he kept taking pictures of us for the restaurant Instagram.

He even gave us all shots of his homemade mescale

- an agave liquor. I don't really do shots but it was interesting.

After we ate, he moved the tables, cranked the music and asked us to all dance with him and his wife. It was crazy fun getting down to all this 80's Spanish music. The weirdest part was that Claudia told us most of the songs were about cheating and affairs. One of them had a chorus that went something like

Honey, I love you, and I love our 8 kids. But only the black one is yours.

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Category: bikes

08/23/15 10:23 - 77.ºF - ID#60171

Nightly rides

I finally made the Wednesday and Thursday night rides this past week.

The Wednesday ride played kickball at Lasalle Park. I thought it was going to be too cool for me but it was awesome - (e:keitht) was there.

The rest of the night was another ride for me. It's so luxurious on the new repaved and painted s-curves, and the butter-smooth Richmond Avenue lanes.

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Category: allentown

08/18/15 11:26 - 75.ºF - ID#60170

Fly building on Allen

No, not fly like cool. I'm talking about the run down storefront across from Funky Monkey that (e:Paul) noticed the flies in (flies which came from a dead body) (e:paul,44776). Although the 70s wallpaper is pretty fly.

The curtains in it have been closed forever, and all the windows sealed. But last week I noticed workers going in, and today the upstairs windows were open and store curtains drawn. Is this going to be the next bougie spot? A new gay bar? A second Cafe 59 spot dedicated to our lunch group?
Or maybe my favorite, another hoardy antique store.

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Category: swimming

08/18/15 11:18 - 75.ºF - ID#60165

After work swim

Despite (e:Paul)'s angst we managed to go to Windmill Point after work yesterday. It was another perfect day for swimming.

Swimming/biking combo has to be the best exercise combo. All the cardio plus exercise with a lot of range of motion. I feel so much more flexible after. I want to find a pool to swim at this winter.

On the way back the border crossing was experiencing some Windows stlye failure. It always seems like something is going wrong with their equipment there. Who knows what is happening on the computer hen they swipe your license? I'd hate to have some data issue get me pulled aside.

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Category: swimming

08/18/15 09:39 - 76.ºF - ID#60164

Presque Isle swin

While the rest of the campers swam at the brushwood pool, (e:Paul) and I took a short trip to Presque Isle. It was about 40 minutes to the beach.

I love swimming there so much. It makes me want to float out to the middle of the lake, since you're jutting out from the shore so much.

On the way back we drove the other way down Bailey Hill Road to brushwood. It takes you by a big lake and town called Findley Lake, which was way prettier than the scrubby brushwood landscape.

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Category: camping

08/16/15 07:13 - 78.ºF - ID#60163

Weekend at Brushwood

We went down to Brushwood for one more time this summer to hang with (e:Heidi), (e:dianne), (e:libertad), (e:xandra), Tanya and Jonathan, and to celebrate (e:flacidness)'s birthday. Unfortunately I still have a non charging phone so there are few pictures.

It didn't rain at all like it was supposed to. The first night we hung out and played with some fiery devices. Sparklers look cool but are difficult to get pictures of.

The second night was also fun but leaned more towards being a shitshow. I spent a lot of time with (e:Paul) and (e:Terry) walking around watching the meteor shower, and the rest chilling by our camp's fire.

For the record, the didgeridome sounds freaking cool. Paul and I just stood in the field listening to them talk and riff in time with the digieridoo. I want to go visit them next year.

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Category: space

08/13/15 01:15 - 61.ºF - ID#60161

Perseids meteor shower

I'm down by myself at Wilkenson Point watching the Perseid meteor shower. Earlier (e:terry) and I were searching for shooting stars in the back yard but onlu saw faint ones. Every once in a while I see an awesome bright streak make its way above the lake.
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I wish I could capture them somehow but I don't think it's possible without some DSLR long exposures.

Too bad there's so much light here, including the parks themself which are supposed to be closed. Luckily I rode by the security guard and he was just sleeping in his car ;)

All of the lights from space, in a low res pic

We saw so many stars in West Valley this weekend. I can't wait to be out even further on Jabe Pond where you see forever. Sometimes I wonder how bright the sky could be in a super really dark isolated place out west - like in Flagstaff where they have an observatory on a mountain ((e:Terry) and (e:Paul) went to school there). Or the middle of the ocean.