Wow, been a while since I’ve been here. I always thought that when I retired, like last June, that I would spend major time in the yard with my hands in the dirt; and, by assumption, be writing about it a lot here. However, my retired life shifted. I started riding recumbent bikes, which I’ve written about over on bentrider.info. I rode over 3,000 miles last year and expect to ride 5,000 to 7,000 this. That’s a lot of riding. I have a 115 mile ride on the 28th of March and a trip to Florida for a group ride in April. So, go on over to bentrider.info and check that activity out.

However, my focus on recumbents does not mean there is nothing going on in the yard. There is! Major stuff, such as building a 1040 square foot shop in the back with A/C, hot/cold water, phone, TV, network, etc. And a new fence. And … But I’m getting ahead of myself. Besides, I’ve written about that over … yonder. Why over yonder, on the bent blog? Because the shop started smaller and with the name “Bike Barn”. It then grew into something much bigger. Much of the new functionality is not bike related and, really, more appropriate here.

And who is doing all this construction for me. That would be Jimmy Burke on the ladder above, my contractor.

However, this is how I normally see him, conducting his mysterious magic. By the way, not a staged photo; the grin is because I caught him on two phones at the same time.

I’ve missed yard.piddling and reporting my activities here. I’ll see if I can wear two blogger hats for awhile.