August 26, 2017
How to get 1 minute of bike track on 1/6 acre of backyard garden.
Meade has optimized a small space. It's not as easy as it may look, and it's a fun place for me to build some confidence.
ADDED: Here's the same backyard in 2013 (in late July):
Meade is demonstrating lawn-mowing there (and we're talking about landscape design that makes lawn-mowing an amusing activity), but I'm showing you this mostly so you can see how much has happened to the garden in the last 4 years.
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The music needs a waterfall.
It was so hard to figure out the music!
I'm impressed.
Next Meade needs to add some grades -- all up, of course.
"The music needs a waterfall."
That's right. A flow track.
That's actually pretty good training for bike control.
An alternative choice of music:
Backyard Bicycle Music
Pretty ingenious.
That reminds me.
Hope you don't get offended if I say that was really cute.
Btw, beautiful garden.
Ha ha. Thanks.
Could get some steps back there on the Fitbit.
Seems to be a 20 second bike path. Were the musicians on the deck?
I covet your landscaping
"Hope you don't get offended if I say that was really cute."
Thought the same thing. The whole miniature bike course brings that on. Also, nice backyard!
There are rotarys exclusively for bikes? Holy crap!
Perfect. I am sorry to hear the Prof lacks confidence in anything. Our Goddess.
It's a full minute because he's not repeating. There are 3 routes.
I lack confidence in about half of the things I do, and most things I don't even do.
With mountain biking, I'm at risk of slowing down to be cautious at a turn which can cause me to fall. I'm worried about running into the tree. I'm concerned out on the challenging trail about getting to the top of a climb. There's only a little climb in the backyard. Anyway, it's a nice way to remember that I can pay attention and do it right.
I'm not sure there is any confidence to be found on such a path.
Try skiing. I feel like a 15-year-old on Thursday at the pass. The other 15 year olds are in school.
Awesome! Just needs some sweet jumps.
Knowing Meade, I was expecting a ramp off the roof culminating with a jump.
There's a jump under the deck, off camera.
I do cross country skiing in the winter, but I really can't do anything that's at all steep if it's curved. I didn't learn to do it at all until I was 58, so I expect little of myself. I've never done downhill skiing and it really is too late for that. I have a legitimate fear of falling.
On Using "How to ..."
Isn't there a prejudiced bias against other potential ways to ... thereby warranting a caveat or 8000?
What if someone with a different way looks at the credentials here and feels too inferior to creatively proceed?
I recommend, instead of the Orwell-hated* "How to" garnering of whatever it is that God-how-I-wish-it-were-peculiar locution garners, the elegant "One way" or "A method to" or maybe "Temporally wise configurations..."
*you gotta trust me here
So cool! You continue to be an unlikely mento to me, Ann! -- Jessica
Reminds me of the scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman riding the bicycle
So is that you getting confidence or Meade showing off?
McCullough beat me to it, I was going to suggest a pen with a bull in it.
Next - the tiny house!
I was thinking of this 'Laugh-In' guy from the 1960s.
"So is that you getting confidence or Meade showing off?"
To get Meade showing off, I'd need to follow him out to the mountain biking trails where there are intermediate and advanced tracks. He typically does 3 hours of that sort of thing. So picture 180 times as long on terrain much more complicated and that would be Meade showing off.
You're not far off from this!
kewl
Yeah, but where are we going to play whiffle-ball?
Same place we skateboard and play kick-the-can — in the street.
Now that's a reel mower.
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