i’m not sure how it got to be thursday already. there continues to be many things i want to do, but suddenly it’s thursday and i haven’t accomplished any of them.
currently i’m obsessed with scanning. we bought a scanner and i’ve been scanning slides from a trip my mom took to europe when she was in college. i want to be able to show the photos at thanksgiving, which is COMING RIGHT UP.
time is running out.
our scanner is very cool; you can manipulate the slides quite a bit, but it’s a little bit time-consuming. i think there are 12 groups of slides, each group containing about 40 slides. so far i’ve finished one of the groups. at this rate i’m not going to have many of them done by thanksgiving. i can’t work on them this weekend because we’re finally going to go down to missouri. NOT to ride our bikes on the katy trail, because kevin continues to suffer from his knee injury. so instead we’ll do a little sauntering around the various little towns down there which are supposed to be very lovely and quaint. and we’ll stay in a little cabin which looks like it should be cozy, but there aren’t enough photos of it on the website to actually know for sure.
hopefully it’ll be a lovely and relaxing weekend, except HOW AM I GOING TO FINISH THE SLIDES?
meanwhile, i finally made a little time to upload a few photos of our bike trip. you may recall that we were about to set out through austrian wine country, the wachau region.
when we set off on monday morning, the weather was great, cool and crisp and sunny.
i was talking to mom about her slides of her trip; it’s nice to have the images of the countryside for your own pleasure, bu i wanted to see more photos of her, and there just aren’t many of them. the problem with the photos of our trip is that i’m always wearing that DAMN YELLOW JACKET and usually TOO TIGHT BIKING PANTS. oh, plus the lovely and sexy bike helmet.
with a light.
ok, i had just taken off the jacket there. it was getting warm as well as sunny.
i’m sure i was about to do some videotaping there.
we stopped at this old church. it had one of those great graveyards with tons and tons of flowers covering each grave, but i can’t believe that kevin took NO PICTURES of them! i took lots of video.
our bikes, with kevin’s bear.
i’m sure people looked at us askance enough because of our bike outfits. but then again, i’m sure they saw plenty of americans dressed like that, especially during the summer. because as i wrote earlier, many of the europeans wore slacks and sweaters, like they were just out for a short ride.
but i imagine they didn’t often see a bicycling, all all and thin and decked out looking EXACTLY like a serious biker…but with a bear riding along with him.
luckily, i rarely think about what people must think about what i’m wearing. like when i go work out at the fit club and i imagine that i’m actually invisible, so i don’t worry that i look very much like an urchin.
this is one of the very quaint little towns we rode through. they mostly seemed deserted, as usual. you could stop and get a glass of sturm from a little roadside place if you wanted to, but it was kind of early in the morning for that, plus i’ve never tried to ride my bike under the influence of any alcohol. and since i’m able to fall down just walking on smooth pavement, i thought it was better to abstain for the moment.
what a beautiful day. we were headed for the town of durnstein, which was supposed to be INCREDIBLY quaint and AMAZINGLY touristy.
it was both.
but i have to save that for another day.
i hope your friday is good.
ok then,
grace in a hurry.
