Hello! Welcome! Once again I'm going to try to start a blog. I have enjoyed reading bicycling blogs, especially those written by women who enjoy riding in every day clothes for their every day life and I thought I'd like to join the conversation. I have recently moved from a farm 35 miles from town to the small city of Great Falls, Montana. I quit riding for a long time because I lived on a gravel road (8 miles from the nearest pavement) but 19 years ago I began again when I had to lose weight to qualify for our first adoption. I bought a mountain bike at that time, a red Trek Antelope and it helped me lose 35 pounds. I thought mountain bikes were a wonderful invention for those of us who lived on unpaved roads. We were so blessed to be able to adopt our two lovely daughters who are now 17 and 18 and my bike helped.
I'll have to tell an antelope story about my Antelope bicycle. I used to ride on dirt field roads through wheat fields and CRP pastures. The antelopes would hide behind that tall CRP grass and when I came by on my bike, antelope they would jump out at me with a loud "huff" which sounded like they were laughing at me. The first few times it scared me though.
One day I took my husband's lunch out to him as he was driving tractor in the field. I was driving a pickup that particular day and stopped at the corner to wait for him to reach the end of the field. There was a small group of antelope at the corner and after I watched them for a while I opened the window and yelled "Boo!" They got so excited, two of them ran head on into each other and knocked one another over. They got up rather sheepishly I thought and leaped away. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself that I had got them back after all the times they "laughed" at me.
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