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Fall in the Backyard

It was a really nice weekend and we were working in the yard (but not too hard) planting bulbs and I took a little movie that I thought I'd share. P.S. Kevin, I hope you're healing!!!!

Goin' to Dirt

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Well, I have been having so much fun this past year on my mountain bike and my road bike. I gave up on the small undeveloped wooded city park near our home because the trails were always too rutted and possibly dangerous. A group of riders has spent hundreds of hours this summer expanding and improving the trails at Legacy Park in North Arlington. I have ridden this 4.7 mile loop dozens of times by myself without incident. I took Steve out today to show him the loop and because he was behind, I set a new personal best on the first lap. Then Steve led the second run. I called ahead to him to go the fourth bank drop at the back of the park by the river. The boys have created four levels of drops, from a little 5' sloping runout to the third that is about 10' down and you get a little bit of air on the the way out. We dropped into the fourth bowl and I quickly found that it was a double ramp. I skirted the second jump on my first attempt. Twenty five minutes later we ca...

Rich Trumka on NPR

He's trying to convince union members to vote for Barack. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95591135 Gina, I googled his name and stumbled on some photos of the Cumberland Township class of 1962 thatI though you would find interesting. http://www.geocities.com/buckeyepa/cths1962.html Jeff