Charlier grocery run?
Charlie’s waiting outside of Hub Bicycle before a potluck….
He’s been very busy since departing from the Club and the land of hospitality. Ever since the Midnight Marathon Ride Charlie has been putting on more miles. We’re spending our work days in a new neighborhood (Inman Square) these days, and an awful (read as wonderful) lot of time is now spent in the company of other bikes.
Lunch dock ride
We even work in the land of bicycles now. Charlie feels like the odd man out hanging around all these folding aluminum frames, whilst he is of the European lugged steel persuasion – but classy never gets old. And sometimes on your lunch break the whole office goes for a bike ride to have lunch on the docks. Charlie was never one for sunbathing, but he’s a bit excited about it all.
Wednesday Ride
He even went on the long awaited Wednesday Bike Social – after knowing about it for so long and not being able to attend because I was always working. Just since last week Charlie went out to Spy Pond for the pretty sunset too…
Spy Pond Sunset
Charlie goes to work. Charlie frolics about in the evening with a bunch of other bicycles, he follows the drum bike too. He brings goodies to the blogger potluck. He goes to Buddhist meetings (that’s the usual), he went to Waltham to hang around in my sister’s apartment. (He was bummed he couldn’t come to New York with the taiko drums. )
He went to Redbones Bike Benefit, and because I had to drop off the donation for work we were the first, bike valet number 1 (a real collector’s item). I don’t know what happened back there with the other bikes and Charlie isn’t telling. Over these weeks we’ve met Bikeyface, Bostonbiker, and Geekhouse and Igleheart and so many awesome folks in person rather than just on the interwebs, even though the interwebs are fun, Charlie has no hands so he doesn’t get much out of it. He’s pretty old school anyway.
Last night we took an inadvertent trip down through the South End and the Fort Point/Innovation district with the awesome fellow cyclists for work because none of us knew how to get there – it was a nice ride though. We did make it to the BSA Space’s Let’s Talk About Bikes Show. Bikes were parked to trees, to each other, to the chain by the water, to the bridge – inside bikes lined the walls and there was just about nowhere to stand without snuggling. But cyclists are friendly folks.
Sea change – word I always thought was used too much, but now it certainly applies to life for Charlie and me. Pretty soon he won’t be an only child anymore – he’ll be getting a folding sibling (and if we’re really good, maybe a Geekhouse… but that’s a story for another day), I hope he knows he’s always first in my heart though….
