Wow! We actually made it out of the house and down to both places that we wanted to go yesterday. The farmers market was really nice, if a tad small, but we still managed to get 2lbs of tomatoes for salsa and a pint of apple butter that's made over in Willcox. It was sprinkling on the west side of town and CP wore her little white hat that her Aunt LaRue recently sent to her. We were glad that it had the strap because it was a bit windy as well. By the time we made it home, the little one was beat tired and was having nothing but a bit of the boob and some sleep. The above picture was taken yesterday afternoon when she was wide awake and happy as a clam.

We hit the Ordinary for a bit of Chariot bike trailer/stroller/hiker consumerism and before the wife took a 2005 Aurora out for a spin, we ran into Matt Zoll, who is Tucson's Bike & Pedestrian Coordinator and his family. Wonderful folks. There are alot of great things that go on in this town with regards to bikes and there are alot of people who work very hard to make it happen.

On a similar vein, I'll have to go against the Tucson Bicycle Advisory Committee when it comes to the proposed ban on motorized bicycles like the bikes offered by Spooky Tooth. It seems that road cyclists in town want to cry foul whenever the cars don't share the road with them in a way that they'd like, but also want to cry foul when someone wants to use the bike lane on something a little different than a titanium seven. "Oh, but it goes faster than 25..." is the cry, but I bet that you could clock the shootout (Saturdays at 6am) at faster than that if you'd like to get going with that argument. These motorized bicycles are kinda stuck in no man's land. They can't be called motorcycles because they don't come that way and they can't be called mopeds because that cuts in on some other things. I say just let folks use them and bust them when they're running them on the paths that are specifically non-motorized.