end of an awesome weekend.

sunday is the kind of day that always has a very specific feel to it. the feeling that i get the most, it is that of conclusion. it feels like everything has ended. most people are out of the streets the stores are more vacant... and the roads are slower. this feeling is even more prevalent in the fall and winter months. no one is in a big hurry to wake up and do anything. it is a very good day to relax. for me relaxing, usually involves some sort of exercise or adventure. when i return from whatever it was that i did, i usually fall back into the same groove as everyone else.

this sunday i was feeling especially lethargic. i had a really tough day yesterday and i was too tired to do something really big today. i had a bunch of dad things to do today, like pick up my kids from swim camp... i can't think of the other dad things i did, but i am sure there was something else. when three o'clock rolled around, alex asked if we could go on a bike ride. of course i couldn't resist such an offer. it took us a while to get ready, but mostly because i was moving really slowly.

we went out the farmer's trail from our neighborhood and headed out the nearby country road. it wasn't really cold, but it kind of felt cold because the sun was gone and things were kind of wet from yesterday.

we didn't go very far because it was getting dark quickly. i carried our extra clothes in my pannier, but we ended up not using them.

we ran into some dogs on the way out there. they were some pretty big dogs that decided the bikes should not ride on the public road in front of their house.... and owners who never tried to convince the dogs otherwise. alex and i were both pretty stressed out, i tried to stay calm, and focused mainly on trying to calm the dogs down. the only way i could think of was to talk straight to them. "how's it going dog?"...'blah blah....you'd better not bit me....blah blah".

we went out to this highway the connects to carter lake, but we didn't go that far. we just turned around and chatted all the way back home. it was pretty nice.