23rd Anniversary

For our 23rd anniversary, we decided to ride to Stone Mountain via the bike path at the Holy Spirit Monastery.  We left the house on our commuter bikes and rode to the Monastery, then took the path to Lithonia.  We then hit the Tucker RR backwards to Stone Mountain, where we had a lovely lunch at a new to us sandwich shop.  We then headed back to Conyers and since I don't enjoy pavement THAT much, we stopped at the bike shop and had Everett give us a ride home.

 It was a great time together, but dirt is definitely more fun that concrete.

 Love you Shey!

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What, that fancy new carbon mtb frame has a threaded bottom bracket and you want to use that BB30 spindle crank.  No problem!

 First measure the frame, 68mm good, 73mm bad.

Next get yourself on of these: 

And install per what they say: 

Then throw away this crap: 

And install one of these: 

About this thick: 

On this side: 

Lightly grease touchy parts:

Install crank per what they say and torque:

Check crank-arm to chain-stay clearance on both sides:

Check for side to side play, check for binding, spin and go ride:

Comfort, Tx

While in Texas celebrating my parents 50th anniversary, we also visited with Shey's family in our hometown, Comfort, TX.

Kenneth's wife has a cool little shop across the street from our old family home.  Kristina and Kenneth make really neat tables, chairs, decorative pieces, out of things they find on their properties outside of Comfort and south TX.

This is made with a piece of wood from Kenneth's family mill.  The Flach Mill.  We were thrilled to receive it as a gift and it traveled safely in our luggage and has been on our dining room table.  Shey would like to put a plaque on it with the information on the mill.  He has told me some great stories  about the mill and I will have to do some research.

This is the Lindner Feed Mill in the center of Comfort.  Growing bigger and bigger.

We also went out to visit Shey's sister, Amber.  She is a wonderful sister-in-law and she and her husband, Donnie, live right next door to Glenn, with Glenn's big garden very close by.  We walked down to pick blackberries.  Lots of blackberries!

Glenn's garden

There were lots of baby birds of all sizes in the bird house.

Scary looking baby birds

 Walking back from the garden

Donnie's oldest son, Trae was visiting with his little girl, so we got to meet the first grandchild in Donnie and Amber's family.  It's always nice to visit with them and catch up with Glenn's gardening news.

Sharing pecans with Tiger?

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