Well…when today started, I had a lot of plans that involved two rides and replanting the garden but that went all to hell after the first ride…it was brutal and cold coming back into a 20 mph wind and it took me hours to warm back up again…and now I sit here sweating…and it’s been raining off and on since I did the first ride at 7:15 to miss the first wave…so now I wait…have decided to wait on the garden until Tuesday with thunderstorms forecast for tonight, tomorrow, and Monday and I want to give these plants a chance to acclimate before they get pounded…damn, I am no good at waiting, that’s for sure…a wasted day to me that I could be accomplishing things if the weather would cooperate…okay, deep breaths…nothing I can do about that but wait….crap…oh, well…here’s the weird thing…it’s raining and my back windows are wet but it’s not raining hard enough to wet anything else hardly…at least it’s over 60 out here…much better than the 54 when I went out early…

Well…damn, that sucks…woke up at 4:13 and didn’t get back to sleep so out of bed before 6 and that is with staying up later than normal for me…so I’m going to be dragging all day and have too much to do for that…I can get out on the bike as soon as it gets light since it is already 57 out there and I should be able to get the second one in by 10…I am going to have to take the day off the bike tomorrow with the build up up niggling little pains that are in my legs…even my Achilles tendons are stiff and hurt and I already have the heating pad on my right thigh since that hurt the worst yesterday….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but need to do better today and will try with planting some of the garden after the rides…it is supposed to storm tonight and through Monday so I hope the new plants survive it….will get tomatoes. beans, and peppers in and I forgot that I need to make pockets of potting soil to transplant them into so they will get a head start…forgot to do that with the first batch and I think that is part of why they didn’t take….not much to do today….just need the coffee to start working right now…the birds are already banging on the feeder and it’s just light….not looking forward to riding this morning….sure hope the wind is not blowing to hard today….more later…

Well…had a good day today but didn’t get a lot done…other than the rides and meeting up with K over in Coopersville…hadn’t seen her in two years and it was nice to catch up…so now I have to plan for getting off my butt tomorrow and getting the garden planted…or replanted since the plants downstairs are big enough and the lowest temp is going to be in the 40’s from now on…I hope….damn, I still need to go down and take care of the plants and make ice…

Well…darn, forgot to hit the timer button on the coffee maker last night so I have cold, leftover coffee this morning…but the microwave is right next to it so I think I’ll survive…slept okay last night but I’m pretty worn out and feeling old…I did do a lot yesterday so that may have something to do with it…got two rides in and mowed the lawn and I think I’m going to try to get three in today since I don’t have anything to do but meet up with K over in Coopersville at 4…I did make sausage tacos yesterday and they came out good…I am dreading the day that I run out of the 10 lbs of sausage and don’t have anything new to try…but that will be a while and I have a tray of pork chops to use….the weather is finally going to turn over the next few days and we may even get to 70 for a couple…still not ready to declare that spring has sprung but it will be nice to get out in the yard and replant the garden…I think I’m going to be in slow mode for a while but it’s warm enough to get out on the bike by 8….and that will set me up for 45 miles by noon…not sure if eating two meals yesterday was a good idea but I know I felt a lot better after I did….so maybe I should be smarter about how many calories I take in…not much to do today…just riding, riding, riding….more later…

Well…to some people, this is a joyous Star Wars day, but to me, even more than 50 years later, it is a day of sorrow for the 4 students that were killed at Kent State University for exercising their 1st amendment rights to protest the Vietnam war….and Neil Young’s “Ohio” rings in my ears every year on this day…”what if you knew her, and found her dead on the ground?” Okay, this is supposed to be about my life…and this is part of my life as a 16 year old kid at the time…this might be a day of introspection for me…but I need to get to it…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get enough done for me….kind of have this day roughed out with needing to go pay a bill and trying to get another 6 pairs of socks, mowing the lawn, and then getting two rides in….I stayed with the one meal plan yesterday and I think I’m feeling it right now…just so damn worn out and my right thumb has been hurting every time I move it…I really, really hate getting old….it is finally going to warm up a bit today and it is not too soon for that….it’s only 38 out there and I hope spring is finally going to come….not much to do today…have to sit here til 9 or so and I haven’t even had my first cup of coffee yet…so I better get one poured….more later…

Well…I don’t know why I keep myself so busy every day but I do…today started out with the grocery run to three stores…and I even got some new socks at Menards of all places and I like them a lot…they are made by dockers and are a lot taller than normal crew socks and have so much elastic in them they feel like compression socks…got 6 pairs for 5.54 and I may just go back tomorrow and get another bundle…then I got the first ride in, had lunch, did the second ride and now it’s 3 and I am taking some time off as I wait for the care packages that are coming from my daughter via UPS…and tomorrow is going to be pretty busy, too with I hope two outdoor rides and mowing the lawn…it’s finally going to warm up to near 60 and that will be welcome after all the cold weather and rain…it’s still only 50 out here right now so I’m just going to let this day go and not do any outdoor work…still staying with one meal today since I had a big chunk of lasagna for lunch and I don’t think I’ll be hungry at all the rest of the day…

Well…up at 4:50 this morning but stayed in bed til almost 7 but I feel like I’ve been up for days…and I’m thinking that maybe staying under 1K calories for the past few days is not such a good idea…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done…I was going to try to get on the bike before the grocery run but I just couldn’t muster up the energy for it…so that means an indoor ride when I get back and then maybe an outdoor one later but the high today is only going to be 52 and I don’t want to put the thermasuit on again….at least it looks like no rain today and it’s going to be in the low 70’s over the weekend…I hope…the packages my daughter is sending are supposed to be here this afternoon and I am looking forward to it…I’ve been called stylish wearing those hand me downs and they are pretty nice….I’ll be ready to replant the garden as soon as the weather breaks and that could be over the weekend….not much to do today…don’t have to cook since I have leftover lasagna for two more days, then I’m going to make sausage tacos and I have some pork chops that I found at Meijers yesterday for 1.49 a pound….almost too much food so I won’t buy any protein today…I really should clean some today but with how I feel right now, that’s not going to happen….more later…

Well…I won’t say it was a busy day today but I did get two rides in, ran an errand, and did laundry so that’s not nothing but I didn’t accomplish a lot…at least don’t feel like I did…oh, I did go out and fill the bird feeder…does that count as something? I think I’m going down to one meal a day from now on since I feel like I’m gaining weight again so now I’ll be under 1K calories per day now…at least the weather is going to break on Thursday and get to 60 or so…will need to mow the lawn Thurs, too, and I got the gas for that today….something weird is happening with my bills…got on the Capital One app yesterday to pay my bill and they say I don’t owe anything…I know I put the 225 buck copay for the MRI on it but maybe it was after the deadline and it will come up next month…and my gas account shows that I overpaid by 51 bucks so I don’t owe anything there either..how the hell can that be? I pay what they say I owe every month and there is no way I paid 51 bucks more than I owe…strange…I will keep checking until it’s due to make sure I don’t miss the payment….I am going to wait another week to replant the garden but it looks like the freeze is over for this spring and I could do it over the weekend…going to just dump all of the 11 cent a pack seeds in the south end of the garden where ones I put in earlier are coming up…have radishes to put in along with cukes and parsley but I am going to make a diagram of what is where so I’ll know what is where…now it’s time to get the grocery list done for tomorrow…getting two more big packages of clothes from my daughter tomorrow and I’m a little excited about that…might even be able to get one outdoor ride in…

Well…damn, it was a struggle to get out of bed this morning and I thought it was around 8 when I crawled out but it was only 6:40…and I am worn out again….it’s 7:16 and I just poured the first cup of coffee and it’s only 37 outside…just read that there is a snowstorm coming for the upper mitten today and that is just about perfect for how there has been no spring this year….I am just so damn tired of the cold…it’s frickin May and I’m still wearing the winter clothes in here….aarrgh….okay, I’ll stop whining now…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but riding the bike and watching the birds empty the feeder….the Bluejays were all over it and that’s started again today…I could hear them when I was lying in bed trying to wake up….and guess what we have out here today? Yep, another gale warning and the wind is already howling….gusts of up to 50 today…I think I need to write down all the things I need to do today so I’ll remember them…so that means an errand to do this morning with getting gas for the mower and the car and some groceries, too…think I’ll do that after the first ride….but right now I just need more coffee….more later…

Well…it’s been a lazy day for me with only doing the two bike rides and cooking but not much else….the lasagna came out great and I really like it with sausage and not hamburger…and at 1.49 a pound it’s a third of the price of burger….I think I’ll be going out to get the ingredients for soft tacos tomorrow since I have to pick up gas for the lawnmower to mow Thursday and I need to pick up the antibiotics I need for prep for the second biopsy in a couple of weeks…it is only 37 degrees out here right now and it’s raining and snowing and that is depressing…and we have two more days of that coming…but then it warms up to almost 70 for the weekend so there will be lots of 45 mile days in the next few weeks to make up for the week off the bike after the biopsy…and I will be planting some tomatoes, peppers, and beans later this week or into the weekend…. and then taking the rest of the seeds I have left and just pouring them in the garden to see what comes up…have some dill and arrugula to go in there…but right now, I’m going to go down and water the plants in the cups…