Its Fall of 2011.

Long time no see. Occasionally I look back at my old blog entries and think, "Wow, I need to get back to writing that." Not that I think anyone else is interested, but lots of good memories that I like to be reminded of.

This cycling season was a total bust for me. I never managed a good race. By good, what I mean is one where I felt good while riding, finished the race, and thought, "Wow, that was great!" In fact, I only had about 2 training rides like that during the season either.

There has been plenty going on though. First of all, we moved. Our other house is awesome, but not really enough rooms anymore. I could have finished the basement, but then this house came up, and the street is called, "Trailrider", and well, the rest is history.

More exciting, we are oh-so-close to having our 7th and planned-to-be-last baby. She should come any day. This one (photo by Katie) will soon be obsolete:



Occasionally (though not very often), someone will be bold enough to ask me why we have "so many kids." It was not really according to any plan, we have just taken it one at a time. Often the question carries with it some between the lines questions.

Our soon to be daughter will be approximately the 7 billionth person in the world at this time.

"How will we pay for their education?"

"What will happen to our over crowded world?"

"How we will we feed everyone?"

"What about the environment?"

I think I understand their concern, but I happen to believe that the real lesson of history is that people are net producers. What we (meaning both the world and the country) really need is more intelligent, hard working, producing people, not fewer. We need contributors.

Sometime maybe I'll write more about that.

Anyway, the fall weather has been fantastic. Lots of Corner Canyon riding, and a couple weeks ago I finally got up to the Crest/Mid-Mountain trail and took a few photos.