i’m not quite sure how that happened. must write more. be more consistent. be a better person. not so lazy. blah blah blah. periodically i do realize that if i just somehow make the voices in my head SHUT UP, i’d be a lot happier. those voices in my head, they’re just so relentless and so nagging.
except when they’re saying, “let’s just do absolutely nothing today, ok?”
so, where has the week gone? lots of time spent putting up halloween decorations. i remember the first halloween party we had, four years ago i guess, and i waited until the day of the party to put up the decorations. waaaay too much pressure. this, our third year of having a party, finds me with waaaay more decorations, but i already have quite a bit of them up.
how am i going to post all the bike trip photos? plus, i’m assuming we’ll take at least one camera this weekend when we go on the katy trail, and then there will be those photos to put up, too. except i started checking the weather and there’s a very good chance of rain one day.
oh well.
the last time i posted a photo, it was our second day of biking, we’d just left the absurdly small “town” of schlogen.
i think i mentioned that this was one of the most beautiful parts of the trip. the woods, the river, the sparkling sun. i keep thinking about how different it would have been in the summer, crowded with other bikers…or if it had been raining, like the week before we went.
you probably can’t read the sign in this picture, unless you have a GIGANTIC screen. it reads “treppelweg,” which means, well, i think it means the walking path. i tried looking it up and translated a page on wikipedia, and this is part of the lengthy definition:
Flax path, also Treidelpfad, in Saxonia Bomätscherpfad (Bomät compared), in Austria Treppelweg, one called a way to work directly at the river bank, which was put on, thus humans and course animals (for example horses) wooden cargo ships river upward to pull could. Also on the bank of channels are such ways. The ships were connected by a rope („line “) with the Treidelpferden and Treidlern going on the flax paths. One called the procedure treideln.
huh.
we stopped to take pictures and video.
there are all taken at this one little place on the river. we finally stopped (after not really going very far anyway) and kevin had a coffee and i had a mineral water. we were at this cafe that had an outdoor seating area on the second floor and this is the place that i think of the most when i think about our trip. i loved this place, it was cute and the day was perfect and the view was spectacular – and i didn’t realize just how ideal it was until i had some time afterwards to think about it.
this is obviously a deep and important lesson to think about in life as we know it.
i would take the time right this very minute to contemplate this, but i just made some banana bread and i need to eat a piece. i tried adding chocolate/peanut butter chips to it, and i’m sure i’ll find that there just aren’t enough chips.
ok then,
grace