Is it really February

Old man winter decided to take a few weeks off and let us have some absolutely beautiful weather to get everyone out of their winter blues.  We don't usually expect to have temperatures in the mid to high 50's in February.  The truly amazing part was that we managed to have warm temperatures with sunny skies.  Usually this time of year when we get warm temperatures it is usually due to cloud cover locking in any heat.  Regardless of why it was warm, we tried to take advantage of it by talking a couple of nice long walks and getting our bikes out for a ride out to the baseball stadium.

Jo was in Phoenix for part of the week finishing up the last of her regional meetings and didn't arrive home until early Saturday morning.  So after sleeping in a bit we finished our morning exercise routine and headed out to find a place for lunch that involved a reasonably long walk.  We ended up in Shorewood eating at a new restaurant that had our favorites - hamburgers with shakes.  The weather was perfect for eating outside and afterwards to help justify the milkshakes we took the long way home.  The rest of the day was spent catching up on some chores around the house.

Sunday morning we hauled the bikes out of the garage, reinflated the very flat tires, and took to the road/bike paths for a ride out past Miller Park.  While noticeably cooler near the lake, once we were inland a bit it was a perfect temperatures for a ride.  The only hard thing will be when it suddenly decides it is time to go back to more seasonable temperatures and snow starts coming down again.  The warm spell certainly makes you start thinking spring.

The picture at the top was our "reward" for riding our bikes.  No point in exercising if you aren't going to let yourself eat back all the calories you burn.  It is a smore's bake (milk chocolate chips on the bottom, marshmellows on top and heated until nicely brown - eat with graham crackers) - YUM.