Saturday we spent most of the morning and afternoon working out in the garden again. (e:terry) chopped down one of the trees in the back corner, and (e:paul) and I chipped it up. We managed to fit the whole tree pile into just two bags.

Paul didn't trust me to trim the hedges straight. but I managed to do one side. Terry finished the rest.


The overgrown hedges

Terry barking at Basra

The wood pile

The results

(E:Paul) and I find this man at the Bidwells Farmer's market so hot. The picture in the background shows him and some other guy (brosband?) holding all these baby goats and them making cheese. I'd help him milk the goats.

Last night while (e:paul) and (e:terry) were at a wedding, I decided to go on a bike ride with (e:yesthatcasey), (e:libertad), and our new ginger Joe friend. We rode around for a little bit before deciding to go on the new First Friday party ride.

It was really awesome. Henry from GObike just started it last month. He had a gigantic speaker in a kid's trailer to provide music. We started at Colonial Circle, rode down through the west side, up to the bike path and rose garden, and finished down at the Liberty Hound. There we met Kerry before riding home to meet Paul and Terry.

I can't wait for next month's ride. Every first friday of the month at 8pm, Colonial Circle.

The same guy that made (e:paul)'s robot shirts was chalking at the Allen Street First Friday



The theme for the ride was Hawaiian shirts and leis - the leis were pot leaves







The bike parking garage

On Monday, (e:terry) grilled and cooked out for (e:hodown) and his mom.

Watermelon, cheesy potatoes, salad, tofurky sausage and corn on the cob


(e:hodown) instagramming her food, right before her phone fell in it

Sunday, we headed over to the pride parade. (e:paul) had the great idea of using sheets to cover up the protesters - there were only about 5 or 6, so it went perfectly. (e:paul), (e:flacidness), some co-op house kid and I held the sheets and actually ended up chasing them away.



(e:paul) holding down the fort

(e:terry) throwing some shade

Afterwards was the festival down at Canalside, which had a count of 20,000 people. It was so packed.




The rest of the night was spent having a good time in the backyard. It was pretty much a perfect summer day.