This post is roughly two months late, but I wanted to catch up on the bicycle work I have been doing recently. For AC's birthday I built a removable basket for her Specialized single speed conversion out of an old wooden crate that I refinished, and I also put together a fixed gear bike for her to try out of an old Nishiki I stumbled across. It turns out she's not too crazy about riding fixed after all (acquired taste, I guess!), but the basket was a big hit. We sold the fixed gear bike to a very nice girl in Ventura and little bit ago, and hauled groceries in the basket on the other bike for the first time this weekend. Fun and satisfying projects, both of them; and, because it seems I always have to have multiple things going at once, I am currently collecting parts to put together another bike, this time for doing tricks on. Money dictates that it will be a long time before that one is finished---even though I have sold most of the bikes I have built so far in order to pay for the next ones in line---but I'm not in a hurry on this one. Speaking of bikes I have sold, AC has seen the first fixed gear I built around Ventura and Ojai twice now. Pretty cool that it is still being ridden and looks just the same six months later!