Author: Shoo
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Dust Bowl 100 – Race Recap
Cue John Mellencamp’s song, “Jack and Diane” as the soundtrack for the Dust Bowl 100. The perfect back drop for the song to take place in America’s Heartland. Beautiful rolling fields, crushed limestone roads, race cars going in ovals, and farm folk sitting at the end of driveway waving to riders and counting bicycles. The […]
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Cheese Burger
Grayson had been asking to go back up to Chicago on the train for a while. Also, on the list, he had asked to go to the world famous Au Cheval. A cheeseburger restaurant that I have telling stories about since he was a little kid. Many times, heading up to Chicago for Lollapalooza, Au […]
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June Photo Drop
The sun was just right and I had my camera. Got some pictures of Grayson and Winnie.
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Hops – Gotcha Day
Had you told me the Shoo Family would be a Pit and Staffordshire bull terrier home within a year, I would have told you to kick rocks. After the ‘boys’ passed within a week of each other, we, the family, were mentally drained. I told Sarah that we needed to wait, and by wait I […]
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Dirty South Roubaix 2023 Race Report
Last year on a whim and encouragement from my cycling buddies I signed up for Dirty South. I quickly did the N+1 purchase (formula for how many bikes you should own where N is the current number of bikes). We rode through winter and did some ‘hills’ and ‘gravel.’ What I learned last year was […]
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The girls.
I was told by Gray and Sarah that I take a lot of the photos of the ‘girls.’ I reminded them that our dogs have always been my muse. I did the same thing with the ‘boys,’ and have a ton of photos of them. After being cooped up in the house we took them […]