balancing family life

Saturday was 'baseball fun day' for Liam's team, an event that would take up most of the day.  Of course this is the same time that the weatherman is calling for decent wind.  However, as usual, the weatherman is not that great at his job - it downpours and kills all wind anyway just as the baseball day activities end.

A little later, I see the trees moving so I head down to Britannia around 4pm.  There's even less wind at the beach...not sure why, it was windier at home.  Sat around and talked with Perry for about an hour.  It was pretty hot so I thought I'd rig and go out in the light wind anyway just to get wet.  But what's this?  wind? joy!  As soon as I hit the water the wind picked up and I sailed for about an hour or two nicely powered on the 6.5.  Sweet!!! Just around 15-20 knots from the south west, super warm water/air.

I gave this balance line a try too, purty neat.

Sunday ride

Gathered up my brother and Andrew for another ride in Kanata.  Brought the camera again with just the wide angle and flash.  Pretty muddy as it rained hard Saturday am.  Noticed a few mtn bikers doing some kind of orienteering race.  Andrew pulled a 'header' / endover off the first drop!  yikes...didn't get a pic of that...he was ok, might have to replace his helmet.  Andrew fears he has destroyed his front fork...air leak?  Took some pics here and there and saw what looked like a big Barred owl - I'll be back with the right lens for him.

no wind - gone riding

Since I had the day off Friday, and the weekend was supposed to be rainy, I dropped in on Kanata Lakes and brought my camera.  Managed to shoot a drop but took 3 tries having the camera shooting on a timer - would have been much easier with someone else there for sure - but I compromised and set the camera to machine gun and a delay to let me get to the drop spot.  A flash would have helped, because the lighting was mega contrasty in the forest.  Stashed the camera under a log, and kept riding but construction crews prevented me from crossing over to the ridge.  Turned back and explored the 'dark-side' trails.  They're grown over quite a bit and I discovered that those trails eventually get blocked by the same construction further south.  The dark side trails brought back a few memories - I haven't ridden back there in years.