Fun stuff I’ve done lately…

Headed into Boston on a beautiful spring day to celebrate Gist’s birthday.

Learned how to make cheese and crochet at the Mill City Skill Share.

Momentum Asks

I was one of the people chosen to be featured in this issue of Momentum Magazine! I am pretty much beside myself with excitement!

30 Days of Biking: Days 24 through 30 – I did it!

I did it! I rode my bicycle every single day in April!

This last week was when I kind of hit a wall. On Tuesday, I didn’t really want to ride my bike, rode into work anyway, and rode (in the car) home with Gist.

I discovered a downhill route home from a place I go on a somewhat regular basis. YAY!

I went into Boston and saw, but wasn’t able to ride, Hubway.

I was totally lame on Friday and rode my bike around the parking lot and drove everywhere that day. LAME!

Overall, though, I had a great time! May is National Bike Month and while I won’t be biking every day, I do plan to commute as much as possible, especially during Bike to Work Week.

The Friends of the Library are having a book sale!

The Friends of the Pollard Library’s book sale will take place from Friday, May 18th to Sunday, May 20th. There will be lots of books for sale and all funds raised will help the Friends to purchase museum passes and support the library.

That weekend is also Doors Open Lowell, and the Pollard Library is one of the featured historic sites. The book sale will take place at the Lowell Senior Center, and Doors Open will be at the library. More information about both can be found on the Pollard’s excellent blog and the full book sale schedule can be found on the Friends’ site.

You can also drop off any books that you want to donate to the sale at the Lowell Senior Center this Saturday, May 5th from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.

Mill City Skill Share

Next Sunday is the Mill City Skill Share, a series of free community workshops including a super-fun knitting class led by Yovani and me. If you’re local, you should definitely come out and play! More information and a complete list of workshops can be found on Mill City Skill Share’s site.

30 Days of Biking: Days 22 and 23 – RAIN!

So our streak of gorgeous, sunny, warm weather was interrupted by a Spring nor’easter. Finally, some rain! On Sunday, I rode to the Community Gardens Greenhouse’s Earth Day Festival and then I met Yovani for lunch at Beer Works.

On Monday, I rode to work in the rain.

It wasn’t bad, I wore my rain coat and rain pants and stayed pretty dry. Riding in the pouring rain didn’t get me any wetter than I would have been had I walked to the bus or walked from where I park my car in the parking garage to the office.

By the time I rode home, the rain had cleared up and my commute was lovely.

30 Days of Biking: Days 14 through 21

Places I have biked since I have last checked in: to work, to volunteer, to the credit union, to City Hall, to the grocery store, along the river, to a fundraiser, to the soon-to-be Whiting Street Garden, and to the library. Also, around the parking lot just so I could say I biked that day. I bet you’re noticing a bit of a pattern here

This week’s biking weather was absurdly lovely. It honestly couldn’t have been more perfect.

30 Days of Biking: Days 9 through 13

Places I have biked since I have last checked in: to work, to volunteer, to the credit union, to City Hall, to the grocery store, to the T station, and to the library.

30 Days of Biking: Days 5 through 8

Places I have biked in the past three days: to work, to volunteer, to the grocery store, to the T station, to the library, to the pharmacy, to the post office, and around the parking lot (so I could say I biked today *ahem*)

Next week it’s supposed to be pretty rainy, stay tuned to see how that goes

30 Days of Biking: Day 4 of 30

Today Henrietta and I were busy and all over the place.

It was a beautiful, if chillier than I first thought, day and we saw lots of other bike commuters out and about.