Been sick during end of summer

It would figure that the last few good riding weeks of summer I would spend too sick to get out in the yard, much less to get out and go for a nice ATV ride. Well, okay, maybe only the last two weeks, but I swear this flu bug has lasted a good two weeks not. I'm down to coughs and congestion, no longer feeling like I was drug through a stagnant mud bog under my bike. (lovely visuals - had to add stagnant because being drug through mud under the bike is actually all part and partial of the whole ATVing thing O;-) )


Anyway - I'm not as sickly no more, so there is hope of another ride before snow hits. I just have to get over being sickly in the next couple weeks and hope that my nephew and brother have left some gas in my bike for me to use. They've ridden it a lot more than I have this summer. ::sigh::

And I *STILL* don't have my helmet. I think my nephew's dog ate critical parts of it and my brother's too afraid to tell me that.

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Fall is here

Roughly half of the leaves have now turned from the vibrant greens of summer to the pale golden yellow hues of autumn, falling to the ground in a blanket of autumn tones that will soon give way to the dusting white of freshly fallen snow.

There is not a lot of ATV riding time left, so I am thinking I might take the ATV up to the library some time this coming week, just as an excuse to get out and ride it some. I want to see the colors of fall and take some good general scenery pictures of the autumn landscape.

I snapped this picture of a pair of birch trees dropping their leaves to the earth, I just like the looks of these solitary trees and the carpet forming at their roots. I want to decorate under them with pumpkins and gathered straw and other fall decorations and snap another picture of them.

Celebrating 1 year of ATV fun under the midnight sun

It is hard to believe, but Alaska ATV is one year old now. Yesterday officially marked the 1 year anniversary.

::::tosses confetti in the air!!!::::::

For a year now I have been riding my motorbike into the sun up here in the land of the midnight sun and I would not trade my little ATV for anything.

Highlights of the past year for me?

Racing at top speed down trails headed for home and directly into the center of one of the most massive lightning storms I have ever seen in Alaska. Bolts of lightning snaking down to strike the forests on the sides of Hatcher's Pass ahead of me as I race along the trail beside Big Lake road. It was the fastest I have gone on an ATV in years, and was one hell of a wild ride. (Yes, I am deathly afraid of lightning - got hit by it once, been scared of thunderstorms ever since, that's why I live in Alaska - we never used to have them things up here.)

Another highlight - Riding along on the trail and going down along a different part of it where I found in the ditch along the road a little blue stuffed toy some kid had lost. A wyvern hatchling! My ATV handle is Wyvern Rider (yes, I'm old enough to remember CB's, shuuuuduuup.) and my favorite color is blue, so to find a blue wyvern hatchling along the ATV trail was definitely a highlight of the year.

Having guys watch me ride past with smiles and hit on me because they thought I looked good on the ATV. (Hey, I'm single, over weight and over 30 - getting guys smiling and saying I look good is a big deal ;-) lol)

And finally (that I can think of right now) - repairing the ATV trailer with a link from an old dog chain I had used to keep my tool box on the ATV. Regular readers will recall that the trailer lost a wheel on a run to get heating fuel and I had to make emergency repairs along the roadside.

It has been a fun year, with not as many rides as I would have liked, but I had fun and intend to have fun under the midnight sun for many years to come.

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Gas Tank Bags

Have you seen those nifty gas tank bag things? Where you put the opening on the bag over the spout on your gas tank and then have pouches that hang down either side of the tank for storing needed items in. I finally got my ATV one of them things and put it on the bike yesterday. It looks nice, but I think it was actually meant for a bike the size of my brother's bike, since it looks like it hangs down a bit far on my fuel tank.

Still, it's a nice bag and I am fairly sure that it will serve my needs - if not I can toss it off to my brother for his ATV and make me one based on the design that is styled for my bike. May do that anyway since I have a bunch of heavy fabric that would work good for making one.

I also need to get my back carrier built too, I've been fiddling with assorted boxes and such that we have, trying to decide what design I prefer in the thing. Got it fairly well figured out I think, so now I just have to get off my lazy backbone and get it built.

A shed for my ATV.... sortta

We got a shed from Lowes and put it all together, nice large sized 10'x14' steel one. Took two afternoons for my brother and nephews and me to get it all put together on a 2x6 foundation with particle board flooring, then me and my mom sealed the edges and painted the floor. Looks really nice and my brother and his son built a nifty hand cart ramp up into it that is wide enough for me to drive my ATV up and into the shed. 2x6's just wide enough apart that front wheels set on one joist and back wheels on another joist. Very nice. Drove my little ATV up in there and parked it, still more than enough room for storage. Shoot, could put three more of them ATVs in there and still have some room for storage.

I want to get another shed like that for ATV storage and for my mom's yard tractor to go in when we get one of them things, put that shed on a cement foundation with U bolts buried into the cement to chain the ATV and tractor down to so they won't walk away on their own.

That's a problem in Alaska, ATV's will just walk right out of your own dang yard. One of my nephews had one of his motorcycles stolen out of his yard, thankfully he was driving home as the kid was making off with the bike, so he got the thing back.