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things to do with bicycles in Rosendale
Thursday, January 30 2025
Gretchen was going to New Paltz today for an early lunch at the new brick & mortar location of the Little Loaf Bakery, so I decided to come along, since I like their stuff, particularly their savory things. We parked in the back and there looked to be a lot of people coming and going from the place, indicating there really is a demand for another vegan business in that small village. The space looks to be freshly renovated, with interesting iron work performing the function of the collar ties in the dining area, which also features a north-facing wall made entirely of glass. There were things we couldn't order because they'd run out of supplies. (I couldn't get a vegan BLT.) I ended up having an Italian tofu sandwich instead, which was kind of meh. Some sort of Impossible burger & serrano pepper pastry, though, had such a strong zing to it that I needed to cool back down by sipping on my oat milk cappuccino. We weren't there very long, and during a good chunk of it Gretchen spent either talking to the two owners or providing menu advice to some very not-very-bright women with Long Island accents at the next table over.
We had the dogs with us, so on the drive home we stopped in Rosendale to walk our dogs behind the Rosendale Theatre. There's a place to charge electric cars there, but it wasn't free, so we didn't use it. Further back, where the flatlands of the Rondout Gorge give way to the heavily-mined dolomite cliffs, there's an extensive system of well-labeled trails. We walked past a bike repair station (the kind with tools attached to cables so they can't be stolen) up one of the trails to a set of small looping trails with various features designed for mountain bikes. (There was a sign strictly forbidding the creation of new features.) The features were mostly paths paved with planks and chicken wire with thinks like banked curves and undulations and I had trouble imaginining that they would be much fun. Further up there was a bench where one cold sit looking out across the edge of a cliff to the hamlet below. As always, Neville was moving very slowly and took awhile up the hill. Ultimately he took the wrong fork in the path and didn't make it to the bike course, but we found him before he made it too far in the wrong direction.
Back home in Hurley, a potential house sitter visited us soon after we got back. She was friends with Kaya, the woman who cleans our house. She brought her dog Pepper, who looked mostly like a black labrador. The moment Pepper came out, Charlotte was delighted, and the two became immediate friends. They ran all over together and Charlotte even facilitated an introduction between Pepper and Lester the Cat. After we showed the woman around the house, Gretchen took her and all the dogs on a walk up the Farm Road to give a sense of how much wilderness there was to walk them in. It was looking like she would be a good dog/house sitter.
I was in the bath when Gretchen got back from pilates, and we had various leftovers (chili and gluten-free pasta) for dinner. Later I tried altering my ESP8266 FRAM code to accept a new "type" parameter, allowing records to store data in different formats depending on that type. But some weird unhelpful error in the Arduino IDE eventually got the best of me.
Charlotte in the mowed flatlands below the remains of some brick-roofed voids in the dolomite cliffs. You can see Neville on the next terrace up. (This is actually a composite photo, with Neville stitched in from a photo where Charlotte wasn't as visible.)
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