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Author Archives: lanoras
Book Review: Peculiar Home
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children By Ransom Riggs This book is a quirky, fun, adventure that transports a modern American teenager through space into an isolated Welsh island, and through time to World War II. In Florida, Jacob finds … Continue reading
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My Velocette Daze
My Velocette Days By Leonard J. Moseley Transport Bookman Limited 1975 London England This book is a great addition to anyone curious about motorcycle history. It is a must-read for the person interested in the Velocette marque. Unfortunately it is … Continue reading
What Real Motorcyclists do in the Winter
There are two lessons to this blog. One is that motorcycle mechanics doesn’t stop just because the weather makes riding uncomfortable. Oh no. When the weather turns bad, the real motorcyclist takes to his/her garage and gets busy. Motorcycle racers … Continue reading
Book Review: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht Natalia, a young doctor from a Balkan country learns that her beloved grandfather has died under unusual circumstances. Knowing he has cancer, the grandfather, also a medical doctor, crossed the border and died in … Continue reading
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2011 BSA OCNC ALL BRITISH RIDE
Time plays it’s usual tricks. Less than one week after the 49 Mile ride, we were back on the road for the BSA Owner’s Club of North America (BSAOCNC) All-British Ride. But in six days the weather had changed, the … Continue reading
Book Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Here’s a book I had great expectations for. I’d enjoyed Eugenides’ previous novel, Middlesex. His new book promised something even rarer: a heroine that I could relate to. One thread of the story follows Madeleine who graduates from college in … Continue reading
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2011 AMCA 49 Mile Ride
On the Sunday before Halloween, around 300 bikers gathered to show off their clutch and throttle skills throughout the steep hills of San Francisco. What is especially remarkable is that the majority of these bikes were built before 1974. Many … Continue reading
How to extract Honey from the Comb
Bees create the honeycomb, the perfect six-sided cells, that they then fill with honey. Once full, the bees seal these containers with more wax. If you want to taste honey as the bees made it, nothing is better than to … Continue reading
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Bee-giners first question
People often tell me that they are interested in keeping bees and then ask how much equipment and time is needed. Really, the only true answer is, it depends…. Most importantly it depends on what you want to do with … Continue reading
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Finally, a Honey Harvest!
Finally, the bees have produced enough surplus honey for us to steal some. This year they have been much more interested in making bees. While increasing the bee population is itself a good thing, we’ve been missing our honey! We … Continue reading
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