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ride my handlebars ride my handlebars journal of a mature non olympic woman in the process of converting to cycling as a method of daily transportation dealing with weather and assorted perils exploring equipment psychological fortitude and diet experiencing our surroundings on a smaller closer scale saving gas boycotting the car industry tuesday december 04 2012 if you liked this blog you re goina love my new one yes it s true i ve come back in another life form like you faithful readers i was sorry to see this blog wind down to the end of its life span but i knew i wouldn t last long without my old friend blogging an art form which i m pretty sure was invented specifically for me so here i am at room for a pony with all the energy of a newborn baby i am uncontainably excited you ll see that i ve graduated from blogspot and have moved on to wordpress and not the easy one dot com but the sophisticated one dot org that you custom design yourself with all the bells and whistles you could ever want to play with ok well i haven t played with them all yet it ll be a work in progress as i learn to do more cool stuff but those photos you ll see in the banner those are mine real live photos of my own actual junk i m playing with the big kids now baby go there at roomforapony net not dot com but dot net and if you ve ever watched that british sit com keeping up appearances that s where the name comes from remember hyacinth is always bragging about her high class sister who has a mercedes and room for a pony she doesn t actually have that ultimate symbol of the good life but she s got room for it when the day comes that s what i m doing making room figuratively speaking i m not aiming for an actual pony but perhaps some sort of spiritual equivalent posted by kate gawf 11 43 am 0 comments friday june 04 2010 chocolate are you there it s me kate here i am in corn land iowa and minnesota got to ride on the hay baler stayed in a log cabin containing 8 006 knot holes and 27 items made out of antlers despite all the advantages you can t find a decent piece of chocolate in these parts to save your life and by that i mean that the highest cocoa content in the land is 55 i brought some along but miscalculated horribly note to self you need more chocolate when you re away from home dummy not less posted by kate gawf 11 36 am 1 comments tuesday october 13 2009 ironing board follow up oops i realize i should ve followed up on the ironing board story sorry to leave everyone hanging like that when i rode by there two days later it had vanished the u lock remains what does that mean will it be back usually when people leave an expensive u lock behind it means they plan to return and they want it there to lock up with on the other hand might the ironing board have managed to wiggle out of it somehow and escape could happen especially given the way its foot was bent up already easier to slip it through maybe so you see i m left hanging too i can t give you a definitive answer but here s a shout out to the library staff of the hollywood branch hey ho if anybody there knows what happened to it could you write in and let us know posted by kate gawf 9 30 pm 6 comments friday october 09 2009 wheels do not a shopping cart make i saw the saddest thing on the train to gresham this morning i caught the max at the hollywood transit center as usual it came at about 9 30 i forget which stop it was maybe as far up as 182nd or so when the loudspeaker comes on and the voice of the driver a woman booms out the lady trying to get on with the shopping cart shopping carts are not allowed on the max you may not come aboard with a shopping cart i pictured one of those homeless people trying to bring their huge overloaded steel grocery store cart onto the train and i thought wow someone is actually trying to do that i always wondered if they ever tried to get on and what would happen and now i know i looked down the platform till finally i saw a woman get off with a cart yes but hardly what you would call a shopping cart she pulled behind her a nylon net pull cart the kind you might take with you on a walking trip to the grocery store she looked like she s been on the planet for about fifty five years and not the easy kind of years good grief trimet get your rules down it reminded me of the bus drivers not letting me onto the buses with my bike for crying out loud that is obviously not what is meant by shopping cart clearly this was a new driver who d remembered reading no shopping carts somewhere in the rule book and didn t think it through people get onto those trains every day with suitcases and strollers the size of her pull cart and bigger i really felt for that woman she was only trying to go to the store using the public transportation like we re always trying to get people to do right except that she probably wasn t using it to be noble but because she didn t own a car the cart was empty you could see through the netting and she could ve collapsed it down flat but she was too tired and probably too embarrassed at having been made into a public spectacle to do anything but trudge away looking downcast i hope she tried again and had better luck with the following driver anyway i m going to give trimet a call in her behalf because she seemed much too trodden down to even think she had a right to complain posted by kate gawf 8 52 pm 3 comments monday september 14 2009 my other broom is an ironing board if you had to choose a household appliance as a means of transportation wouldn t you tend to reach for a broom who wouldn t think of that first thing but someone has had a much better idea why not an ironing board much more comfortable a plethora of possible riding positions as good as surfing if not better there s one parked outside the hollywood library it s locked to the bike rack with an expensive u lock so obviously someone cares about it the landing gear is a little bent so it s been around clearly not something grabbed in haste for a joy ride and then dumped surely the owner will be back for it but when it s been there for several days i know it doesn t belong to one of the library employees because i ve seen it there early in the morning and late at night posted by kate gawf 11 15 pm 3 comments friday july 17 2009 another one of mankind s nasty habits infiltrates the animal world here s the promised crow trying to smoke a cigarette essay this was last october hence the scruffiness of the grass and the dead leaves in the gutter been meaning to post it ever since i hope you appreciate it because i t made me late for work this seemed more important at the time hey lemme see that a sec i know what s in there got to get the damn thing open come on dammit god i hate the packaging industry grrrrrrrr i have so had it with this enough already to hell with it i quit posted by kate gawf 9 56 pm 2 comments oregon summer is here at last good grief i can t bear that grey picture another minute it seems so inappropriate now that the weather is gorgeous no time right now but i ve been preparing a photo essay of a crow trying to smoke a cigarette don t believe me just wait posted by kate gawf 8 53 am 2 comments sunday july 12 2009 the candle method today was the kind of day that everyone should know about before they do something rash like move to oregon keep in mind that it s mid july and this picture was taken at 4 30 in the afternoon ok i m lighting a candle for all the people out there who ve moved to oregon by mistake for whom this kind of weather is sylvia plath on a plate there see when you can do nothing else you can light a candle for example if you re desperate about something and it s beyond your control and you can t pray because you don t believe in it or you don t know how or you re not in the mood or if you re so mad that you would knock the head off anyone who made such an annoying suggestion you can light a candle and the candle will do all the work it s a catholic thing but anyone can use it the tibetans have something similar tibetan prayer flags every time the flag ripples in the breeze it counts as a prayer stick a candle somewhere light it and then you say who or what you re lighting it for even the most avowed heathen can do that at least it s something ps like it says on the box never leave a candle unattended no telling what the cat will do burn your house down if you have safety issues maybe you need to buy one of those little battery operated candles and just turn it on by the little switch on the bottom here s a bit from a poem song by leonard cohen called anthem ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything that s how the light gets in posted by kate gawf 11 45 pm 1 comments about me name kate gawf location portland oregon united states she s no spring chicken my mother would disclose mercilessly about women in their thirties trying to impersonate youth now i m even past the no spring chicken age so don t think you have to be 12 to start riding a bike everywhere i m working out all the pesky details for you in case you want to do this yourself but even if you never do it you ll still know what it s like because i m going to shrink you down to the size of a little rubber elf and glue you onto my handlebars no changing your mind no matter how much you beg me so don t even start this unless you re sure you have the guts ps my other bike is a broom view my complete profile links google news edit me edit me previous posts if you liked this blog you re goina love my new one chocolate are you there it s me kate ironing board follow up wheels do not a shopping cart make my other broom is an ironing board another one of mankind s nasty habits infiltrates oregon summer is here at last the candle method frequent light rail user weighs in on proposed sol brompton takes a bus ride archives august 2005 september 2005 october 2005 november 2005 december 2005 january 2006 february 2006 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