As I haven't posted anything in over two weeks, not since church camp. I guess life gets in the way of leisure, sometimes, eh?
So anyway, there are a couple of blogs I sort of half-assed follow, both written by lady cyclists of my acquaintance. Lynne I can sometimes keep up with, if the hill isn't too steep. Cecil can pretty much blow my doors off any time she feels like it. Both of them posted links in their blogs to a bicycling blog called Bike Lemming, and a post about what we as cyclists need to do to improve our image. The writer makes some excellent points. Here's the link: Bike Lemming
So what have I done lately? Let me see. Oh yeah, I spent a whole bunch of bucks and time on rebuilding a sprayer that goes on the back of our tractor, so I can commit serious herbicide around the ranch. After a number of fits and starts, it's up and running, and the weeds are dying in droves...
I've taken up what is euphemistically called "DE (for double edge) wet shaving". I've been shaving with a Gillette Mach 3 cartridge razor for quite a while, ever since I decided that I was tired of the Norelco electric I bought "for convenience" pulling the hairs out of my tender little face instead of cutting them. I recently needed to buy some more shaving cream, and ran across an inexpensive "bowl, brush and soap" set at Wally World, so I started shaving with actual shaving soap and a brush, still using the Mach 3. Then I made the "mistake" of asking about shaving soaps, since I couldn't find any locally, on one of the cowboy websites I hang out on. I now have two double edge Gillette razors, both considerably older than I am, and a third headed my way. On top of that, my Dad said he has one I can have...
I've discovered that lathering my face with a brush, and shaving with a seriously dangerous instrument, is kind of my "me time" in the morning. I've got a blade sampler pack that I'm working through, testing to see what brand of blade I want to use for the long term, and I'm getting some of the best shaves I've ever had, although some of the blades I have are seriously not going to ever grace my medicine cabinet again in my lifetime. I shave every day anyway, and instead of hating shaving, I've grown to enjoy it. But a buddy of mine at work and I have been having some slightly weird conversations since I started doing this a few weeks ago...
I've even made my own brush! I bought what is called a "knot", made out of badger hair, and drilled a piece of deer horn out for the handle and epoxied the knot into it. Really, really luxurious brush, and I've got a grand total of somewhere in the vicinity of maybe, at the outside, $22.50 invested in a brush that would have cost me at the absolute least $50 to buy, if I could find one to buy anywhere. So now I've decided I need to build something smaller to use as a travel brush...
So anyway, there are a couple of blogs I sort of half-assed follow, both written by lady cyclists of my acquaintance. Lynne I can sometimes keep up with, if the hill isn't too steep. Cecil can pretty much blow my doors off any time she feels like it. Both of them posted links in their blogs to a bicycling blog called Bike Lemming, and a post about what we as cyclists need to do to improve our image. The writer makes some excellent points. Here's the link: Bike Lemming
So what have I done lately? Let me see. Oh yeah, I spent a whole bunch of bucks and time on rebuilding a sprayer that goes on the back of our tractor, so I can commit serious herbicide around the ranch. After a number of fits and starts, it's up and running, and the weeds are dying in droves...
I've taken up what is euphemistically called "DE (for double edge) wet shaving". I've been shaving with a Gillette Mach 3 cartridge razor for quite a while, ever since I decided that I was tired of the Norelco electric I bought "for convenience" pulling the hairs out of my tender little face instead of cutting them. I recently needed to buy some more shaving cream, and ran across an inexpensive "bowl, brush and soap" set at Wally World, so I started shaving with actual shaving soap and a brush, still using the Mach 3. Then I made the "mistake" of asking about shaving soaps, since I couldn't find any locally, on one of the cowboy websites I hang out on. I now have two double edge Gillette razors, both considerably older than I am, and a third headed my way. On top of that, my Dad said he has one I can have...
I've discovered that lathering my face with a brush, and shaving with a seriously dangerous instrument, is kind of my "me time" in the morning. I've got a blade sampler pack that I'm working through, testing to see what brand of blade I want to use for the long term, and I'm getting some of the best shaves I've ever had, although some of the blades I have are seriously not going to ever grace my medicine cabinet again in my lifetime. I shave every day anyway, and instead of hating shaving, I've grown to enjoy it. But a buddy of mine at work and I have been having some slightly weird conversations since I started doing this a few weeks ago...
I've even made my own brush! I bought what is called a "knot", made out of badger hair, and drilled a piece of deer horn out for the handle and epoxied the knot into it. Really, really luxurious brush, and I've got a grand total of somewhere in the vicinity of maybe, at the outside, $22.50 invested in a brush that would have cost me at the absolute least $50 to buy, if I could find one to buy anywhere. So now I've decided I need to build something smaller to use as a travel brush...
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