Tour de Glover (Family Style)

Cole and I went on a little bike ride yesterday.  We started out by climbing Perron Hill. Here's a picture of Cole as we crossed over on the Young Road. He liked this big rock jutting out of the ground.

Our original plan was to just go a ways and then turn around and go home the way we came, but the Young Road was in rough condition, so I knew that it would take us just as long to go back as it would to make a loop around. So we turned onto Parker Road and went by the lake. 

Next we zipped down Bean Hill, onto Rt 16 ( which I was nervous about with Cole, but he did great, and there's a nice wide shoulder so we could get way over) and then up Perron Hill.  Cole did a great job. He never complained or ran out of energy. 

It was actually a pretty easy ride, but I joked with him that Daddy was going to call the police if we didn't get home pretty soon. Sure enough, when we walked into the house, Wayne said, "Daddy's gone looking for you." 

Heather felt a little left out, so this morning she and I went for a ride over to the barn beyond Joanie's house.

Along the way, we saw this monarch butterfly which prompted us to search the milkweeds for caterpillars. We didn't find any.

We stopped to see if Joanie was home, but she wasn't. We helped ourselves to her raspberries.

Finally we continued on to the barn.  

The boys and I used to walk up here all the time and they loved climbing on the tractors and the hay bales.  Being there again today brought back a lot of memories.

Even though it was a short little trip, there was a lot of sight-seeing to be done. I think it took nearly as long as Cole's ride. Wes didn't come out looking for us though.

And if you're wondering about Wayne, he hasn't gone for a bike ride with me lately, but he has gone running with me on a couple of mornings. He's getting ready for the Glover Day 5k this year!