Accepted to the Seattle Tilth Master Composters Program!

I got my acceptance package in the mail today and as of March 19th I'll be enrolled in the master composter/soil builder program through Seattle Tilth! Looks like this will be about a 12 hour a week commitment through April. Seattle Tilth has a ton of volunteer opportunities as well. I'll look into getting involved in the April 1st orientation so I can work around the city some before we leave.

We've sold off 4 bikes, a bunch of miscellaneous bike stuff, as well as dropping off a box of things at our beloved Recycled Cycles for some much needed store credit. 2 more boxes of books were sold to Half Price Books, a box donated to Lambert House, and a couple of our favorite cookbooks and coffee table books went in a bag to Z's mom's house for safe keeping (and probable use/display). We're widdling away at all the stuff we've amassed over the last few years living together but there's still a ton to go through. Craigslisters have been respoding to ads recently, probably the good weather has something to do with this as most of the ads are bike related, and those who've responded have mostly been showing up!

Z is dismantling the bike shop and A is working on general cleanup and giant tupperware storage bin procurement.

Things are moving along rather well and if we keep it up we won't have to scramble too much once the end of June rolls around.

In addition to all the trip related goings on, the mountain bike season has started in our household as the first two early season races are now behind us. The BuDu series races we've done have both been in the very bumpy, very winding, beautiful single track of Black Diamond. These races have really challenged our incredibly novice mountain biking skills making us look forward to the faster, smoother singletrack of the South Seatac park where the rest of the BuDu races will be held.
Mountain biking lesson of the week: Tire Pressure is key, too much is bad, too little is bad, finding the right balance is good and when you find something that works you should write it down so you don't argue about what it was at the day of the race, 20 minutes before it starts, and decide to split the difference between both your recalled psi's only to find you both have to pull over and let air out in the first half of the first lap.