Had a good ride in today. My distributor called around 4:30 as I was ready to leave to say he was going to be a couple hours late. My first thought, okay no problem I had some bills to pay online and could use a second cup of coffee. 5:30 rolls around I was headed out the door when my daughter walks out of the house wide awake and dressed asking if she could spend the day with me. Hesitant at first since Monday mornings are ordinarily very busy and it'll be twice as hectic with the late delivery, I answered "Sure, get your bike". She spent the day refilling ketchup bottles, salt/pepper shakers, and assisting with the serving of orders. Probably not what she expected when she wanted to spend the day with me.

The ride home wasn't so great. We nearly got cut off by a tractor trailer that decided to cross the center line to give us extra unneeded room without looking ahead at the oncoming traffic and quickly swerved back into the right lane-crossing the white/fog line- as we were riding on the far right on the extra wide shoulder on the state road. The first time since I started commuting has that ever happened. Then as we were coming down the one mega hill on my commute she ended up taking the turn at the bottom of the hill too fast, hit a patch of sand and skidded to the ground. When I caught up the bike was on top of her and she had blood dripping from her elbow and knee. A good example why we should carry first-aid kits; I cleaned up her wounds and patched her up. She started riding the remaining 2 miles, got maybe 1/4 of a mile and decided she couldn't ride any further. She was limping the next half mile before I decided to carry her and walk our bikes the rest of the way-thankfully she's not too heavy. Official cleaning and bandage replacement as soon as we got home followed by some children's Tylenol to ease the pain she's feeling better now.

Just when I thought we made it through the summer without any accidents