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Pat Pend.
While the creator
was heading on home, the blizzard was increasing more and more. The
creator could feel the cold snowflakes landing and melting on his eyes.
The creator needed to squint his eyes while riding his bike to prevent
any more further sight problems while concentrating on the road. At this
point, the creator now, could feel the snowflakes bouncing off his eye
lashes while squinting. The creator needed to switch gears to adjust to
the different snow conditions. It was a whopper of a storm the creator
thought. The creator had known about four-wheel drive vehicles having
the advantage to navigate through snowy streets without the slipping and
sliding unlike two-wheel drive vehicles. Could there be a bicycle with
two-wheel drive instead of traditional rear single-wheel drive as the
creator had thought.
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After being in the
drugstore, the creator had purchased the medication. The creator had
returned back to his bike realizing that it was going to take him a few
minutes to locate his activation key. Without his activation key, he
wouldn't be able to run the power to his bike. His head and tail lights
would not operate in the dark for safety. The creator's hands were
getting cold and numb. He needed to find his key somehow. After five
minutes standing in the cold wind, he had that urge to go to the
bathroom.
Halfway through the store, he found his key for his bike. After his
restroom break, he creator headed back outside of the store and headed
on home.
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Later that
afternoon, the creator's mother was getting better. The family
doctor had called explaining about the creator's, father's medical
condition. The creator's father was going to be transferred to a
rehab facility across the street from the main hospital. The creator
was in good spirit. The creator decided to return back outside to
the workshop. The partial cabin was removed off the bike by
disconnecting its docking clamps and the
creator had taken off to his favorite park to relax. Since the cold
weather conditions were mild with no wind at all, the creator was
able sit at his swing and think on how to continue building his
bicycle cabin. |
Before beginning his
construction, the creator had flipped the switch to the kerosene
heater in order to distribute heat into the workshop. The creator was
not sure if this experiment of building bike cabin was going to work
of not. First, he needed to start from the with rear section and then
work his way down to the bicycle pedals. Along the way, the creator
then worked from the right-hand rear side of the milk crate trunk to
the right-side of the front panel board. Precision cuts and drilling
were performed during the project. The creator wanted this cabin cover
to be built strong and sturdy since he knew he would be using his bike very often
in the future. Mother winter wasn't going anywhere soon as the creator
thought. |
There was no time for the creator to continue working on his bicycle
cabin until he got back from the gas station with the refill of fuel
oil. Once again, the creator had to depend on his, "Thombogo
Sunset Model 1996 Country Style Class" bike to carry the 5-gallon plastic
refill tank to the gas station in order to get the fuel oil refill. Once
again, the creator had to remove the cabin off the bike. The creator
pulled his bike out of the garage and placed the empty tank in the milk
crate. The creator pulled the Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike into the patio from the workshop.
Before the creator had pulled his bike into the driveway, he closed the
family van's hood and had gone back into the patio to get his bike. He had look back at the
family van realizing that he would have no time to fix the carburetor
while riding away. |
The nurse had walked into the room. It
was time for the creator's father to sleep. The creator had left and
said goodbye to his father. The creator found his way back to the
hospital's east-side parking lot. The creator had got on his, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike and pondered for a few moments.
The creator felt some inspiration after his father had explained to
him about his mother's common condition and what could be done with
the medical issue. The creator is hoping that, his father will pull
through just as much as his mother would.
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Later that evening, the
creator was planning to continue his project in his father's workshop.
After a few moments spent in the workshop, the heater
had shut off due to running out of kerosene fuel oil in its tank. The
creator would have
to go out to the local gas station down the street to get some fuel oil.
He had rummaged around the workshop and found what appeared to be a
heavy-duty, plastic utility tank. The creator figured that, with this
five-gallon tank, that would be enough fuel oil to heat up the workshop
for at least ten hours. His mother was in no condition to drive
the family car due her current medical issue. She was still recovering
from her migraine headache. Even though, if the creator's mother was
able to drive the family car, she would had refused to bring home the
fuel oil utility re-fill tank knowing that, it could leak all
over the seats and on the family car's interior fabric causing the kerosene
odor to be disbursed inside the family car. |
While spending a couple of hours with his
mother that late evening, the creator made a bowl of soup for his
mother. He made some basic food combinations which would help her easily
consume on her stomach with-out any miss-haps. The creator's mother
was unable to get out of her bed to head into the kitchen. She was
afraid of releasing her food uncontrollably all over her bedroom
carpet. After contacting the family doctor, the family doctor had recommended
and prescribed what medications for the creator's mother to take.
The creator knew that, if there was going to be a way to get his
mother's prescriptions at the local drug store, he would need to
depend once again, on his, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike to get him there in the cold
weather.
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As the creator had passed, half-way through the
south-side of the hospital on the street, an ambulance drove by,
heading into the opposite direction. It had reminded him that night
when his father was taken in an ambulance. The creator had turn his
head to face west when a cold snow flake had gone into his eye due
to a blizzard storm forming. The wind from the storm was picking up
more and more. The creator had a three mile journey in which to ride
to back to home from the hospital. The creator needed to find ways
to handle his, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike. The creator was switching his
gears while breaking on the street to avoid any type of wipe out in
the slippery snowy streets and wind. The creator knew himself that,
without a vehicle of his own to protect him from a collision with
another vehicle, he would be physically damaged costing him money
due to ambulance and hospital fees of his own to pay. He had to
depend on his bike to get him safely to home. Someone needed to be
there for their mother. |
The time was getting late that
evening. The drug store was going to be closing at a certain time
that very night. The creator needed to get there in time to
purchase his mother's prescription. The creator had walked into
the workshop to get his bike out. While walking his bike out, he
was calculating on how long it would take to get to drug store
using the, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" versus walking on foot. Riding the
bike would cut the time by one-third rather walking in foot. If
the creator had walked on foot to the drug store, he would
estimate of being five to six minutes late after closing. When he
arrived at the drug store, his time calculations were reasonably
correct.
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The creator wouldn't know where he would be without his, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike. The creator remembered during the past
months when he had, gone through other hardships using his bike. The
storm was getting weaker by the time the creator got home with
his mother's prescriptions. The creator mother had taken her
medication and had drifted to dreamland. The creator had walked
out of his mother's room while thinking about his father in
the hospital. Without his three siblings around, who would be
there to take care of their both parents if the creator, their
son didn't? The nightly winter wind hollowed through the night
while creator had gone to his room to think of his both parents.
The creator laid there in his bed thinking of what his both
parents would be doing at this point if, he himself had a
girlfriend, had car and was busy working. The creator had gone
to sleep after thinking about that. |
Fixing up
the family van would be a hopeless case based on what the
creator's father had explained to him in the hospital about
it. The creator shifted into first-gear drive and kept on
going. More and more did the creator relay on his bike. After
riding his bike a mile down the busy main street, the creator
came across what would known as a fast-food restaurant which
is also known, for its yellow, "arches" located
somewhere, along the east-side of the busy street. The creator
looked at his mother's note on a piece of paper to see what
burger meals she wanted him to purchase. The creator figured
that, he was at the right restaurant since the names of some
meals would related to the trademarks of the restaurant. After
getting his order, the creator had to place the bag of food up
inside his coat since there was no room in the basket. The
five-gallon tank had taken up the whole basket. The next stop
was to the gas station. The creator spent a few minutes at the
gas station while fueling up. The tank was full at about forty
to fifty pounds. With the special way the, "Thombogo
Sunset Model 1996 Country Style Class" bike framing was
modified, it was able to handle the weight without the wheels
slipping on the snow. The bike was able handle on the street
while going over some patches of black ice. The creator made
it all the way home. |
The creator had spent an hour with his father in the
observation room. His son helped him take his daily meal at
his bed. The father and the son had a talk regarding the
creator's job future. The creator's father was unable to
predict his medical condition. Was the creator's father
going to beat the unknown disease or not? The creator
had pulled up a seat and wanted to listen to what his father
needed to say. After helping unravel the IV tubes and
electrodes from around his father's both arms, the creator's
father had turned over to the other side of the hospital bed
to face at his son. The creator's father told him to begin
looking for some type of a job as soon as possible incase if
he doesn't pull through. |
After a three mile journey through the snowy blizzard, the
creator made it home to his mother. The creator had pulled
into the driveway. He could the see the snow dunes
forming in the driveway from the wind. The creator could
see that, this was going to be one heck of a storm. After
listing to the weather station, the creator had found out
that, some areas were going to be impossible to drive
through using certain vehicles. After the creator had
listen to the weather report on his radio, he parked his, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike in the workshop. The creator could
taken a public bus to get home from visiting his father at
the hospital however, it might had taken him the
same equal amount of time or more to get home by using public
transportation.. |
The
creator had sat there on his swing and thought up a
vision regarding his bicycle cabin. Once the cabin is
built, there would be no cold wind kicked up into his
face. There would be no more cold snow and/or sleet
being thrown at his eyes. The creator wouldn't have to
worry about breathing the cold, frost bitten, winter air
while riding his, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike since a onboard heater would be
built to warm up the cabin. The creator was in enough
memory trauma since, he had his double pneumonia a few
years previous due to breathing cold winter air along
with other issues which started the, double pneumonia in
the first place. The creator wanted to swing for a while
before returning back to home. The creator was able to
come up with more ideas on how the build the heat
exchanger system.. |
The next morning, the creator had that
idea. The creator was getting tired and frustrated of dealing with the
wrath of the cold weather. There was going to be an experiment
performed on the, Thombogo Sunset Model 1996
Country Style Class" bike. With his father in the hospital
and his mother temporally out of commission, the creator decided to set most
of his concentration to his bike. The bike was placed next to the
work table. The creator taken a little trip inside the workshop to seek
materials for the bike. Pieces plywood were found along with sticks of
pine wood used for the framing. The creator came across a box wood
screws, nails and plexi-glass for the job.
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