Best Made Plans:

Winter has been too long this year; in fact it has gobbled up a chunk of spring already. Less than a hundred miles northwest of Coralville, it snowed thirteen inches in Osage, Iowa and southeast Minnesota was hit with 15.7 inches, both all time records of the pretty yet annoying fluff.

A light dusting (15+ inches) of snow on the deck furniture
in Wisconsin



Due to the cold rainy weather my plans for today, planting flowers we bought yesterday from the Amish in Kolona, has been put on hold, along with training rides for the 2nd Maze Boy Ride (MBR-II) next week.

Poor Chris popped a hernia a couple weeks ago and has repair surgery scheduled May 7^th, just two days before the MBR-II. We are thinking that bike riding will be out of the question for Chris so Geoff and I will ride the three Missouri and Kansas trails on the schedule. Hopefully Chris can drive the car, dumping us off at one end of the trail and picking us up at the other end. I will post the outcome of the MBR in a couple weeks. In the meantime I can try to make sense out of derailleur adjustments videos on U-Tube. I can see why bicycle mechanics did not go into teaching or maybe it’s the student?!