Snow

It has to be ironic that we get hit by our first snow in over a month on Opening Day of the baseball season. We were supposed to get 7 inches but the temperatures were so warm that we had only 3 or 4 inches of very wet snow. It was very heavy to shovel. It was good to remind the North Carolina fans who were here for the Final Four what they are missing by not living here. No hurricanes though.

We had a PALM meeting on Palm Sunday. I got more applications from Vickie who is back from Florida. We now have 696 people registered. She informed me that the final number will be about 825 people. Now you are probably asking yourself how a ride with a 700 rider cutoff can register 825 people. One reason is that we don't count staff. Last year we had 71 staff people including the SAGs (18 of them), truck drivers, and site people. In the last 3 years when the ride closed early, we've had about 50 or so cancellations. We already have 4. If that happens this year, we will be a little over 700 riders, where we want to be. Do you see why we don't have a mailing list?

As Monday's snow reminds us, April is a month when we have to bike when we can, not when we want. I hope that you have gotten your bike out of mothballs by now and had it tuned up. If you've waited until now to have a mechanic check it out, that's another reason you can't bike when you want. If you are like me, you have to get used to sitting on a bike every year. Don't wait for consistent weather, start to bike now for PALM. There will be good days even in April.