Max BD party

BB and I went to Max's BD party.  Great fun!!



Link to photos.

Bike ride to Ericsons

BB & I took advantage of the cooler mourning weather to ride over to Erickson's for ice cream.  We took our usual route to the Assabet wildlife refuge then along the lake to Erickson's, about 20 miles round trip.  Unfortunately, in an effort to beat the heat we arrives over an hour before they opened!  We hung out in the shade for a bit then BB went around to the order window and charmed the young man setting up to sell us our mourning ice cream fix.  Score another one for attractive women in tights!

I finally got a reasonable picture of the road along the pond.

Roasting coffee at Karma

We are fortunate in Sudbury to have an outstanding coffee roaster, Karma!  Karma is an artisan small batch roaster.  Karma roast  roughly 30 different coffees and will roast to order!  In addition to a modest retail store, Karma sells online and wholesales to select local retailers and restaurants. 


After I retired, I began talking with Dave, the owner, about roasting coffee with a view to a part time job.  A couple of weeks ago we spoke and I'm not learning how to roast coffee!  There's rather more to it than I would have thought with considerable subtlety in running the roaster to consistently produce a top tier roast.  One of the great things about working at Karma is the chance to try different coffee and roasts.  I'm learning that there is a rather big of world of coffees.


Here's a brief video about Karma.

Ice cream and Russian Ural motorcycle

BB and I went out for ice cream on this rather hot Sunday.  With temps in the 90's it's a bit over hot for a bike ride to Erickson's, one of the best ice cream shops near us.  Anyway we drove over for a fix.

How hot was it?  The ice cream was soft so Erickson's was giving a cup with each cone!

While there a couple drove up on an interesting motorcycle with a sidecar.

It looked like a WW2 German military motorcycle, the sort seen in period movies.  Intrigued, I went over to have a look.  The owner explained that it was, in fact, a brand new Ural motorcycle.  He went on to say that when the Russian military overran the German BMW factory during the end of WW2 they took the engineering drawings and samples of this classic back to Russia where they began to manufacture them.  Ural motorcycles of Russia  continues to make them today and the largest dealer in the world is in Boxborough, Ma near us.

Adventures are clearly where you find them.