My dad was an avid biker and had a few expensive bikes. My mom decided to buy our family new bikes with the money from selling my dad’s bikes as a memory of him. So here we go. My new bike for cruising around the town. It’s a 21 speed and I love it. Already made a few grocery store runs and a beer store run.

Got the full on rally fun pack with this one.

India’s new cruiser 3 speed. Ollie and Liz already had relatively new bikes so they didn’t need new ones too. Liz got some new accessories like fenders and basket though. Now we’re an official Boulder family biking around everywhere.

It’s been a couple years since I’ve done the three day fruit/veggie only fast/cleanse. I’ve been wanting to lose some weight and this is one way I did it in the past plus it cleans you out. So three days of fruits and veggies only. No soy, no dairy, no meat, no nuts, beans, popcorn, beer, etc. The first day was pretty easy. A big bowl of fruit for breakfast, a salad for lunch and a few bananas throughout the day to keep me full. The above photo was dinner and it was great. Onions, potatoes, zuchini, tomatoes, parsley and I enjoyed it. It could have used some hot sauce, but that’s against the rules.

Day 2 was not as easy. It was a saturday and I went out skating all day in almost 100 degree weather. Breakfast was fruit again and I was already hungry before leaving for skating. I brought some baked potatoes and sweet potatoes in olive oil, cherries and one avocado. Lets just say I was starving beyond believe when I got home to make the above dinner. Kale and potatoes. That wasn’t enough it turns out as I would toss and turn all night because I was so hungry. Ugh.

Day three. Breakfast was fruit again and I was getting kind of over it. I wanted milk, yogurt, eggs, something with more fat. Being hungry and it being nearly 100 again made me so lazy.

Lunch on day three. It was decent. Kale, Zuchini, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Green Onions. It didn’t satisfy my hunger, but I guess that’s the point of the three day diet, to starve a bit eh?

Day 3 dinner was a tough one. We were at a birthday party for India’s friend and we’re friends with her parents so we were there. I had to turn down sushi, chicken, cupcakes, beer and other goodies. Our friends knew I was on this diet though and they hooked it up. Veggie only rolls which were yummy (the dark red is beets, not raw fish). I also had a ton of potatoes and ate til I couldn’t eat anymore hoping to be able to sleep better. It kinda worked. So there we go, I survived. I weighed myself the day after this was done and was down about three pounds. Wahoo! Now, the hard part, to keep it off ..

I have to admit that my dad dying a month ago has changed me. I’ve been way more into spending time with the kids and getting stuff done around the house. Over the weekend I built a new crawl space cover and the kids helped me paint it. So fun.

And last night was baseball with Ollie in the rain. No home runs for him, but he did catch a few pop balls I hit out to outfield. So fun.

After reading some depressing articles like this I decided I don’t want to sit for 8 hours a day anymore. I mean my Dad did just die of a heart attack and it says you are 54% more likely to die of a heart attack if you sit all day. So why not? It’s been two days straight and although my legs feel a bit tired, they feel way better than they did after sitting all day. Maybe one of these is next?

That would rule.

My Dad died on Friday. It was sudden and completely unexpected. He was only 64 and was training for another Leadville 100 mountain bike race. I don’t feel that this is the place to talk about him, but he will be missed. I’ll be up in the mountains for awhile with my mom and family. Thanks to everyone who has sent along their regards. I love you all.

There are lots of perks to running your own small skateboard company.  Some of them are simpler than others.  Like when you get a decorated envelope in the mail from some of your favorite people.  Gordon and Sandy, you guys rule!

PS – I just found out that Lee Bender drew the guy on the envelope. Sick!

So here they are:

I had setup a new Lung deck. Perhaps the last one I will skate as the Dinoseries is almost gone so I put some extra effort into this one. Ollie and his buddy Sam did the griptape art. So awesome. Ollie’s stuff is near the top, Sam’s at the bottom. Sam put a Star Wars Light Saber on there!

You would think that since it’s the last one I’ll skate I wouldn’t put so many stickers on it, but the truth is all my sponsors have been on my case lately. Yeah Right! I have all these stickers sitting around and wanted them to go to good use.

I made a list of tricks to do by 40.  It’s a page instead of a post so it’s easier for me to go back and look at.  See, there is a link for it under Pages up and to the right of this sentence.  Or just click HERE.

Saturday’s adventures.

Sunday’s adventures.

While we were up in Ft Collins on Sunday Dean took this photo of Ollie.  I have no idea how he got Ollie to smile on film, but he did it and this is one of my favorite photos ever.