around town

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

 

Greenbikes come to Salt Lake City

 

Almost overnight more than 100 bikes appeared at 10 kiosks as the city's non-profit Bike Share program.  It gets you from point A to point B and you can take any bike at any location as many times as you like for a small fee, 30 minutes at time.

 

 

"Greenbikes are designed for one purpose; short trips in the city by people wearing regular clothes and carrying ordinary stuff.  They don't take you up the canyon and they don't take you down the mountain.  The bikes are one-size-fits-all and the only thing you adjust is the seat."  No maintenance for you and no reason for a lock.  If you want, you can check how many calories you have burned, how far you rode and how many lbs. of toxic pollutants you did not put in the air. 

 

Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21, 2013

 

This is probably only exciting to us.  Maybe its been a slow week.  They closed the street in front of our condo (South Temple) and a whole lot of very large trucks appeared with parts to a crane.  The crane was assembled, the work was done on top of one of the nearby buildings overnight and then they dismantled the crane, loaded it back on the trucks and off they went.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

We had a wonderful evening with our good friends, Carol and Doug LeMon from Alpine, Utah.  We previously lived "around the corner" from them in Lee's Summit, Missouri.  Doug was the Stake Patriarch in the Independence Missouri Stake.  And Carol was, well, talented in everything.  Our kids were just the right ages so that there was always one who could drive another to early-morning Seminary.       

 

Carol and Doug LeMon

 

We enjoyed ice cream and catching up at the newly opened Farr's and then attended the spring program at the Tabernacle with the Mormon Tabernacle Chorale and Orchestra on Temple Square.  After, Doug gave me a 'private' lesson, showing me the new features on FamilySearch Family Tree.