at Miller Park with Kathy and Joel. This is such a fun class to teach. One person started pedaling right away, she just needed to remember. I pulled her from the group and we went for a longer ride. As we rode all of Miller Park and around the block on Ramp Way, Front St and Broadway, I taught her lane positioning, hand signals, shifting, proper turns. Totally fun Level 2 lesson.
I love driving out to Justin’s to complete whatever the next task is. Justin gathered the rest of the walnuts from last weekend, watered, and weed-eated. I started with this
and finished with this.
And the first two brown grocery bags of this year’s harvest were taken home.
Christian Brothers played at Inderkum HS, which is very close to where I live.
Friends from high school: Thais, Kristen, Sherry, Danielle – what a nice surprise.
Monday. By 7:30, all the bikes are ready for the day’s blacktop drills.
Last day of bike drills, tomorrow is the first street ride.
Tuesday. Charlie is here to lead a group. Mike came to repair a few bikes.
My yellow group did a great job on their first ride.
Wednesday. Second street ride. Thank you Milan for riding sweep. Thank you Barbara for joining us with very short notice.
Gathering begins. Saturday morning.
Batch #1 will dry for about a week.
At St Ignatius.
Rita/Lala (Lenin’s mom), Carson, Hudson and his grandma Margaret/Oma.
After mass, we toured classrooms.
Where was your grandparent born? Lala put a star on Manila.
There was an early dismissal. The boys decided we should go to Zócalo for lunch.
Thank you Justin for picking me up to go to Sophia’s volleyball game at Christian Brothers.
Although I’m trying to cut back on my teaching schedule, sometimes I can’t say no. I agreed to be the co-lead at Natomas Park Elementary for two weeks. Monday: Deanna is an excellent instructor and always calm no matter what comes up. And I discovered I’m a bit rusty in presenting a good lesson.
One small watermelon with a big smile on its face wore a helmet and one melon refused to wear a bike helmet. Both went for a bike ride and both fell. The melon with no helmet cracked its head open and the kids all went “ooooohhh.”
Tuesday. Bike parts and helmet fitting. Barbara was added to the team.
Wednesday: first day of bike drills.
One class had almost half who didn’t know how to ride. I worked with them to the side of the bike drill lanes.
It was about 95 degrees today and there was after-school coaching. Hot and tired by 3:00 end.
Thursday. A classroom day to learn about moving through intersections and right-of-way rules.
This was my last day this week because of a special event on Friday.
Note: I also worked this morning – Project Ride Smart at NPE. Monday evening, there was a bike rodeo in Elk Grove. Yes, I was tired.
This was the last of 6 bike rodeos in Elk Grove. Tonight at Markofer Elementary for about 25 Cub Scouts. The rodeo was scheduled for 7-8:00. Tonight’s team: Barbara, Kathy, Michael, Matt.
Tonight’s SABA mechanics: Doug and Tim.
The indoor meeting had to end a bit early at about 6:45. Note the sky in the background, sunset was at 6:53.
7:20 and this rodeo needed to end soon:
Carson, in 5th grade, plays for the St Ignatius team.
