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Lillian Reed Nicholson

2009-07-03T20:55:00.003-05:00

Lillian Reed Nicholson

Born July 3rd 2009 at 11:01 am.

Update?!?!?

2009-06-07T22:44:00.003-05:00

Sorry I haven’t posted in quite a while. Life has been so busy at the Nicholson’s home its hard to take the time to type a few sentences. My time has been occupied with getting ready for our new family addition and trying to get some major chores done before she gets here around July 4th. In the last few months I have completely re-landscaped our entire front yard and, Ive been studying for the LEED exam that I’m supposed to take next weekend.

Work has been super busy for Tara and I booth. I’m knee deep in a new Music Building for the University of Tennessee. These days we are both very thankful to have work at all though.

Of course I’ve been doing a little bike riding when I can. I’ve done a little commuting, a few mountain bike rides but I’m mainly interested in riding the downhill bike these days. We have a fairly regular Sunday Windrock session going on plus I’ve slipped in a couple of weekday evening sessions at the Rock. I took a trip to Diablo Freeride Park in New Jersey last month, that’s was about the most fun bike riding I have ever done, riding the ski lift to the top of the mountain then blasting back down over and over. Lift assist mountain biking is truly the “crack cocaine” of cycling.

Noah has really taken to his little wooden bike. He and I do regular rides nearly every day.

He can coast and carve turns pretty well especially considering he’s just 2 years old!

We’ve been wearing out the neighborhood pool since it opened. We think Noah wll learn to swim this summer.

Noah is 2

2009-03-24T21:15:00.003-05:00

Noah had his second birthday last week and got his first bike!

PMBAR

2009-03-20T13:49:00.000-05:00

Looks like I have lost my PMBAR partner. I’m having difficulty finding anyone interested that’s not already committed to something that weekend. So if you’re free May 2nd and have the aversion to go spend 7-10 hours traversing up and down some big mountain trails shoot me a message. I’m hoping for a solid mid pack finish but a serious effort will be placed at the after party

Extreme Sheep Hearding?!?!?!?

2009-03-19T07:34:00.000-05:00

NAHMBS / Skatepark tour

2009-03-01T23:04:00.002-05:00

John, Jeff, Shawn and I went to the "North American Hand Made Bike Show" This weekend in Indianapolis. Along the way we sessioned the Louisville, KY skate park and the Indianapolis skate park.

The show was impressive I got to meet James Bleakey of Blacksheep Bike who is responsible for building several of my bikes over the years. lots of other cool stuff, so much I don't know where to start or stop so ill just skip it. This head badge summed the whole show up for me "A Sheep in Wolf's clothing"

We hit the Loisville park for a few minites on the way up and then played around at the Indianapolis park after the show

Coon

2009-02-23T23:27:00.001-05:00

I went to Raccoon Mountain last weekend with Eric, Thomas, and about 15 other K-town folks. It was a blast of a ride followed by another stop at Sugar's to top it off.

Sometimes I’m embarrassed I live in Tennessee

2009-02-19T08:44:00.001-05:00

It's a Girl !!!

2009-02-15T21:00:00.004-05:00

If you haven’t heard yet the Nicholsons are getting a new addition to the family. The male to female ratio in our family is about to even back out.

Its been a little warmer lately and Noah has been wearing the wheels off his trike. Looks like he’s getting a 2 wheelerfor his birthday next month

Noah is very attached to a Hot Wheels motorcycle, he won’t go anywhere without it right now.

I built a little back yard ladder drop/jump this weekend.

This is the best mainstreem beer company comercial I've ever seen.

Picture Update

2009-02-08T21:55:00.015-05:00

Here are a couple of recent Noah pictures, He is getting taller every day though he doesn’t seem to be gaining much weight. His 2nd birthday is coming up soon, I think he’s getting his first 2 wheeler, he’s outgrown his tiny tricycle.

I’ve done some riding lately, Thomas, Eric and I went to Pisgah this past weekend. We saw our friends John and Shawn racing in a 36 hour mountain bike race while we were there, turned out the came in 2nd at the event. I hadn’t been to Pisgah in awhile; it’s always a great place to ride.

Most of my riding lately has been at the Skatepark and the local dirt jump park (Bigfoot) I’m really having a blast doing this kind of riding, the skill translation to the MTB trails is helping take my riding up a notch, if only I could just pull some fitness together too.

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Snow

2009-01-20T21:16:00.000-05:00

Noah got to play in the snow for the first time this week

!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!

2009-01-15T22:49:00.003-05:00

This is the best flying squirrel flick I've ever seen.

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Great Holiday's at the Nicholson's

2009-01-03T15:03:00.004-05:00

Peter Schiff Analogies

2008-12-03T10:34:00.000-05:00

Great compilation of Peter Schiff quotes:

Pumpkin

2008-11-05T21:16:00.003-05:00

Ann gave Noah a really cute pumpkin costume to wear on Halloween. Noah picked up on Trick'or'treating pretty quickly even if he didn't get to eat any candy.

October ride log

2008-10-30T21:12:00.002-05:00

1st Haw Ridge 1:30
2nd Commute 1:00
4th Windrock race 4:00 – City Ride 1:30
5th Haw Ridge 1:30
10th Raccoon mtn 3:30
11th Windrock XC 2:30
12th Windrock DH (5 runs/ 1WM) Plus short ride at the ridge 2:30
13th Urban 1:00 Jeff vs. John
15th Commute 2:00
22nd Haw ridge Fix 1:30
23rd Commute 2:00
25th party/Fixy ride to heckle at the Haw ridge race 1:30
26th Windrock Dh (7runs/2 WM) 3:00
28th I.C. King Fixy 1:30
29th Haw Ridge Fixy 1:30
30th Commute 2:00

Total : 30:00 – Pretty light month, I’ve been sick and traveling. What’s most disappointing was I was supposed to participate in 2 events this month and both fell apart. I have gotten back on both the Downhill and the off-road fixy bandwagons this month though.

Wily back in action

2008-10-26T21:04:00.010-05:00

After 6 months off, the Wily is back together with its issues repaired, all the rust cleaned up, and a new coat of paint. I toyed with the idea of leting this one go, I knew from the first peddle stoke I made the right choice in keeping it.

Running fixed for now, fall just feels right for riding fixed in the woods.

3rd Party Debate

2008-10-24T12:03:00.002-05:00

Last night on C-Span was the 3rd party presidential debate. This excerpt stood out to both Tara and I:

“It’s not a battle between Republicans and Democrats, because those titles mean very little. Same thing, it’s not a battle between conservatives and liberals. Really, the battle is between Globalists and Constitutionalists. We either believe we are a constitutional republic and we govern ourselves accordingly or we see ourselves as a part of, as George Bush Sr. talked about, the new world order. I think what we’re dealing with here is an infatuation between both parties to the new world order concept, the open boarder situation… Both parties seem to be obsessed with foreign aid. …we are pawns of the United Nations.” – Chuck Baldwin.

You can listen to the whole debate here: CLICK HERE or just the response I transcribed above located on Part 2, within the first 1 ½ minutes of this video.

Economic Woes

2008-10-11T10:11:00.002-05:00

Check out this article from February 5th 2008:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=55601

If you believe the curent financial woes are caused by bad mortages as claimed in the news media you are feeding into their lie.

Big Orange Boots

2008-10-09T21:50:00.004-05:00

Noah has some cool new winter boots and a cowboy hat

Hes my "stand in" blogger as well

September Ride Log

2008-10-08T08:44:00.001-05:00

1st Iron Mountain 2:30
3rd Haw Ridge 1:30
4th Commute 2:00
6th Raccoon Mountain 4:00
10th Urban Ride 2:00
11th Commute 2:00
13th Errands all day, one trip of 40 miles on the Big Dummy to pick up beer 3:00
14th Haw Ridge + SK8 2:00
15th City Fix 3:00
16th SK8 :30
17th haw Ridge 1:30
18th commute 2:00
20th Haw Ridge 1:30
21st haw Ridge 2:30
24th Haw Ridge 1:30
25th Commute 2:00
26th Brew ride and polo match 2:30
27th Sk8 1:00
28th Trailer ride 1:30
29th commute 2:00

Total : 40:30

Windrock 100/25

2008-10-05T10:40:00.003-05:00

I rode the Windrock 100 (reduced to 25miles) yesterday. It was my first time to ride the XC trails at Windrock. I think I may have found my favorite new place to ride. The trails are as hard as an XC trail can be, super steep climbs, technical rock that will challenge the most skilled riders, lots of funky little up and down moves, and banked corners for railing. The two main areas campground trails and Walden’s Ridge a isolated enough from atv traffic that it’s a non-issue.

I can’t imagine the original plan of 4 laps of the course for 100 miles though. I’m sure some folks out there could finish it but not many.

Photot credit- Mark Webb

Just for Jeff

2008-10-03T13:29:00.000-05:00

Get your own knuckles at the knuckle tattoo gun.

Republocrat

2008-10-01T10:47:00.002-05:00

A few things from thirdpartyticket.com

Vote Third Party

Recently Ron Paul gave an historic press conference asking for voters to consider voting for third party candidates. He invited four third-party candidates to be present at the conference and gave them all an endorsement.

Here is the press conference for your review:

In his press conference he made three major points:

1.) A large number of people do not want a McCain or Obama presidency - collectively we are a political force, 2.) All four of his suggested third party candidates have 4 positions in common:

bring the U.S. troops home
protect our civil liberties
investigate the Federal Reserve
balance the federal budget
3.) the two party system is corrupt, limits the choices of the American people and must come to an end..

Republocrat Campaign Song

I promise to get off politics and back to bikes and Noah this weekend.

Palin

2008-09-25T22:06:00.004-05:00

Education:
4 colleges over 9 semesters while participating in 2 beauty pageants, to receive a communications degree.
Experience:
2 term mayor of a town of 6,300 (that’s about how many students attend the high school next to my home). Has served 2 years as governor of the least populated state of the country.

McCain is 72 (would be the oldest president in history) and has survived cancer, 4 times. If elected McCain has a better chance of dying in office than any president previously so the question is more meningfull than ever, Is she ready to lead our country?