Weekend slides downhill, and that bicycle they’re supposed to be assembling for me 🙁

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I hadn’t heard back from the bike shop, so I called this afternoon and they said they had a lower-spec model (Marlin 5) in my size XXL that I could test ride. Maybe I should have asked more questions, like whether or not they are also building the Marlin 6 in that size for my testing as promised, but I could test ride that Marlin 5 as it’s basically the same bike and either they can build the Marlin 6 or I can pick up somewhere else like their Hudson location. I think I’ll try to leave work at 4 PM tomorrow to give it a ride, and then go shopping thereafter. Plus then I can ask my question about the bike carrying rack to see if it fits the XXL bicycle.

I am having second thoughts about the upcoming weekend. The forecast was warm but decent, now it sucks with clouds on Saturday and Sunday and increasing chance of rain. Staying home saves money, and maybe I just need to go to more places to test ride bicycles, as I thought this had been closed down, but apparently like so many things in this world, what is closed down isn’t set a deal until you take delivery. At least I think I know what I want now, and after the test ride of Marlin 5 in XXL, if I have to order the Marlin 6 and have a local shop build it, even if I have to pay first, as long as I take delivery, I’ll be good.

The long range for the following weekend looks better, so maybe that will be my best chance to get out of town.

Army Corps to begin Scajaquada Creek cleanup study

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Army Corps to begin Scajaquada Creek cleanup study

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — Lawmakers, clean water advocates and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers all seem to agree: the 13-mile-long Scajaquada Creek that flows through Buffalo's eastern suburbs and the city is gross.

"Fecal bacteria in the creek is at levels that are 20 times the threshold that are considered safe for human consumption,” Assemblywoman Monica Wallace, D-Lancaster, said. “Contaminated sludge is up to five feet deep at some places and the avian botulism has been estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of birds in our region.”

The pollution, they said, is largely the result of abuse, alterations and poor infrastructure choices which have led to regular sewage runoff into the creek. Tuesday, Buffalo Waterkeeper and the Army Corps signed a cost-sharing agreement to cover a $600,000 restoration feasibility study.

"What it really means is that in the coming years we will be making significant progress in the actual restoration and changing and improvement segments of this creek system. It's what we've been talking about for decades," Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Executive Director Jill Jedlicka said.