by simpleDesigns | Mar 17, 2008 | Family
Our newest member of the family entered the world today at 10:31 am on St. Patricks Day, March 17, 2008. Isabelle Josephine weighed in at 8lbs, 14 oz and ‘stood’ about 20 inches tall. Phaedra is doing quite well, having had a reasonably easy labor, if...
by simpleDesigns | Mar 13, 2008 | Cycling
The founder of Trek Bicycles, Richard “Dick” Burke, died Monday at age 73 from complications after heart surgery. Burke started Trek in 1976 and saw it become one of cycling’s all-time success stories, helped in no small part by Trek being the bike...
by simpleDesigns | Mar 11, 2008 | Birding
I finally made my first web video using Windows Movie Maker. It’s really quite simple, but I’ve always enjoyed photography, and put off playing with “moving pictures”. Last month, we were fortunate enough to watch a hummingbird in Napa Valley...
by simpleDesigns | Mar 9, 2008 | Cycling
I signed up for Bicycle Tour of Colorado a couple of weeks ago but I’m not sure I could ride 50 flat miles, so I decided to start riding again with some regularity. Rode about 45 last weekend and paid dearly, so kept it under 30 miles today. The streets were...
by simpleDesigns | Mar 9, 2008 | Birding
Not sure what happened yesterday. Maybe the birds heard it might snow, maybe they heard 40 degree temps are arriving this week, or maybe it was just our new hawk moved on… But whatever it was, we had more birds in the yard than probably any day since we moved...
