Riding my bike to school uphill both ways

So the other morning Ryan got about half a block from the house and told Carmen that he couldn't make his bike go, that it was stuck. She rode back to him and found that for whatever reason the front wheel was totally seized up. I took the wheel apart and discovered that all the grease had gone out of the bearings and that the cage that holds the individual balls of the bearing in had shifted and was binding between the race (the part of the bearing that the balls ride one) and the bearing ball. So as the cages are only there to facilitate manufacturing, I took it out and FILLED the wheel with grease. Put it all back together and it spun fast and free... now Ryan is no longer falling behind on the ride to and from school, in fact he passes Carmen and Kyle now... I guess that's what happens when you ride uphill EVERYWHERE you go for weeks, months maybe...

Tylor's last soccer season on NYS... maybe

Ty decided after watching his brothers play soccer for two of the three winter seasons (it's the best time of year to play outdoor sports here) that he wanted to play one more season. So we signed him up on coach Steve's team -the team he'd been on last year and we really like coach Steve. Ty's ball handling and awareness of the game have really improved. We found out after the season started, thinking it was Ty's last as NYS only goes up to 12 years old (you can turn 13 during the season but you cannot be 13 before the season starts and still play for NYS). Anyway we found out that NYS is thinking about doing a 13 to 15 year old league. So this might not be Ty's last season... maybe...