//www.youtube.com/get_playerSunday may 7, 2012
Because it just feels so good when a plan comes together.
This afternoon, i excavated this bike trailer from the back corner of the garage. It has been back there for the better part of three years, waiting for an afternoon like this one. The sun was out, the kids were all resting and I was feeling inspired.
First I found the instruction manual online. Next I inflated tires. Then it was on to giving the thing a good dusting off. As you might imagine, anything that sits in the back of the garage for three years is going to collect some cobwebs. But the best part of the whole experience, was when I realized that one of the buckles that goes inside the carrier to strap kids in was missing. Best part you ask? Yes. Absolutely. Missing buckles and missing webbing means that I have an excuse to get out my box of spare canoe trip equipment. And that's what I did. I opened up the toolbox found the extra supplies kicking around in there and put that little piece of the bike trailer back together. Now, I'm sure that, in some ways, this may seem rather trivial. But you have to appreciate that, number one, I have very few opportunities to get out my box of canoe trip equipment these days and, number two, when I actually start a repair project and complete it all within an hour having made no trips to the hardware store, or anywhere else for that matter, it Is an incredibly satisfying experience.
Later on that afternoon all five of us went on a two hour bike excursion. We visited friends bought vegetable plants for garden and ate cinnamon buns in the park. We did it all the sunshine and all together. With nobody crying nobody fighting nobody getting lost nobody falling behind and everybody generally having a good time. It was awesome! I can't wait to do it again!
Of course any project of this nature requires a test run. And that's what you see here.
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