Well…crap, just lost a whole post that I had done with a glitch in this program so now I need to recreate it…still feeling pretty worn out today with getting up at 5:14 and then out of bed a little after 7 and I wonder if it is just getting old…after all, I’m not young anymore and not getting younger….it was a little funny yesterday when I reached over the arm of my couch to plug my phone in and hurt my side so badly that I could barely breathe…that’s getting old, folks and it still hurts this morning…but it has been hurting for a couple of weeks now so I’m kind of used to it….I did get some work done yesterday and I am going to paint today but not right now…F1 qualifying is on at 9 and then I need to get on the bike and get the rides in so painting will wait til the afternoon…I did find a small and big roller covers that I had cleaned the last time I used them and appear to be good enough to be reused so I didn’t have to make a run to depot but I’m not sure if I can clean them enough to do the second side of the door in a couple of days but well see…I do have enough paint but will need another gallon to start on the baseboards and windows in the dining room…I do need to do some outdoor work over the weekend, too….need to clean and fill the window bird feeder and take the hummingbird feeder down and clean that, too….didn’t see one hummingbird this year but I’ll put the feeder back up in the spring…and I need to take the tomato plants and flowers down to put out Tuesday but that could even wait till Monday since it’s not going to rain any time soon….not much to do today…yeah, that’s not true…should be working right now but I’m going to have more coffee and read some news first..it’s too cold to go out on the bike at 45 degrees and it won’t be over 50 until around 10 or so….so I have an hour to jsut sit here and gather my energy for the day….more later….

Well…yeah, this is cheating…just to get my post count up…not really…just sitting here waiting for the night to start and thought I’d just do one more and see where it goes…I knew the summer is truly over today when I saw that they have put the sand fences up at the Pere Marquette beaches over the past couple of days…not sure how effective they are since they had about 3 feet of sand over the road that runs along the small beach in the spring…I wonder how deep it would have been without them? I did get some work done today and have the door frame and door ready to paint, almost…just a little more sanding on the door that I’ll do in the morning…and I just painted the hinges and screws a few minutes ago so I’ll be ready to hang them when the painting is done…I think I’m going to paint the outside of the door after I hang it back up so I don’t screw up the back of it that I am painting tomorrow…it takes forever for the paint to cure and it would probably stick to the sawhorses even after a week and I want it done…okay, need to get ready for the night and make some ice….

Well…man, I’m not sure what it is but I felt so crappy in the late afternoon yesterday that I could barely get off the couch I felt so worn out….if this is what getting old feels like, I don’t like it one bit…and that led to me not getting out of bed til 7:30 and I still feel exhausted right now….so the work I planned on getting done today is going to be on hold until I get through this…or until the coffee starts to work…still have that damn headache I’ve had for weeks now…okay, that’s enough whining….it was nice to get two rides in yesterday and that is plan for today but it is only 41 right now so that is going to wait til around 11 or so…and that will give me time to get some work done on the house….might even get some painting done later….would like to get the door frame done today and maybe the hinges but I need to see if I have any roller covers downstairs since I will be rolling the paint on the door….I did get the weed walk done yesterday between the rides and I am going to strip the last of the tomatoes off the plants today so I can take them down and put them out Tuesday….not much to do today….okay, I do have lots to do today but I have to remember that I really don’t have a schedule and if the work gets pushed back til tomorrow, I won’t die from it….and that’s pretty hard….more later…

Well….I know it’s early, but I just had dinner that I cooked in my slow cooker all day and it came out way better than I expected…it could be the  best thing I’ve ever made in it and it was all by accident really…just threw stuff together and let it cook all day with bottled traditional pasta sauce as the liquid with a little water that I used to rinse out the jar when I poured it in…that along with the chicken leg quarters, onion, potatoes, carrots, garlic, and some celery I had in the fridge..oh, and I added quite a bit of Italian seasoning…but I think what made this dish was turning it up to high and adding half a box of elbow macaroni for the last half hour since it thickened the sauce up so it stuck to everything….this is comfort food that I am going to make again and again over the winter…oooo, some sausage would go good in it, too, it doesn’t need it but I may try that next time and I may de-bone the chicken, too so I don’t have to pick through it as I eat….and I don’t think it has that many calories in it since it is mostly veggies, pasta, and chicken….but whatever is okay since I skipped lunch in anticipation of eating a lot for dinner…man, I’m full…

Well…that was okay…tossed and turned a bit but I had some dreams and only got up once at around 3 and then not out of bed til after 6 so I’ll take it…and I feel pretty good this morning…compared to how I felt with having cocktails at night…I’m still old and creaky but I can live with that….had a good day yesterday and I am looking forward to today with loading up my slow cooker with chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, and pasta sauce…and I just had the idea to add some pasta at the end and I’m not sure if it is going to be the half box of elbow mac I have or the 8 lasagna noodles that I can break up or some egg noodles that I have…or maybe a combo of all of them that I will add at the end so they don’t go too mushy…I am going to get out on the bike for two rides today but I’ll have to wait til 11 or so to get started since it is pretty cold out there right now and I still want to go out in shorts…I did get laundry done yesterday so I only have working on the house to do today and I’ll get at that after I get the slow cooker going….still haven’t healed my back or obliques even with the two days off the bike and I think part of it is the straining I’m doing with the sanding on the door so I guess I’ll just resign myself that I’m going to hurt until the work on the house is done…I did have a surprise the other day when I went out to work on the door opener in the garage…it was cold so I dragged out a pair of jeans that always were too tight and they just slipped on and were even a little loose and I got a little smile out of that….have been working hard to control my weight and it’s nice to see some success….not much to do today…just going take it easy and have some more coffee, read the news, and enjoy the day….I do have to figure out why I have such a headache this morning and how to deal with it….it’s probably from the dust from sanding combining with my allergies so I’ll just have to live with it or suffer the side effects of allergy meds…and I think that is worse….more later….

Well…I was planning on doing two rides today but I got a surprise call from my brother who had time on his hands and wanted to go to lunch at the place down the hill to get the lunch special…and it’s a pretty good deal for a half pound burger, a bunch of fries, and a beer for 6.95…but that was a good 2k calories so it will be my only meal for the day…I did get out on the bike for a ride around two and it was pretty windy but nice to get out after two days off…and I did ask him if he could take me for my colonoscopy and he said he could so that’s a load off…I even got the door and the frame sanded for the first time but I am re assessing how I’m going to do the work from this point forward…I am leaning back toward “good enough” instead of doing hours and hours of work to still not have it look that good so I think I’ll just clean things up and get them painted….I can live with just having things clean and the other bedroom is going to wear me out and I need to keep some energy for that…and I have lots of windows to be done and that takes weeks to do each one…I did get everything I needed on the grocery run this morning and now I have food for a couple of weeks…didn’t run the slow cooker today since I didn’t need to with going out for lunch so that will be tomorrow morning as I wait for the temp to come up from the low of 34 tonight….okay, that’s enough….need more water and to read some news and I may even come back for another one later if I find a topic…

Well…that was a little better…still had choppy sleep but I feel pretty good this morning after getting out of bed at 6:05…and there is something to this being good again…got a bunch of stuff done yesterday and today is going to be really busy  with doing the grocery run getting the slow cooker going when I get back, doing some work on the door and frame, and getting back on the bike for two rides today…and I have to hit 5 stores this morning to get everything I need so it is going to take a while…read some good news yesterday when it was announced that Medicare premiums are going to go down along with the almost 9% increase in SS so next year should be better and I can get back on track of saving 8K for the new Miata next spring….and yet most old folks still vote for the asshole repubs who want to end both programs and leave us all to starve…I will never figure that out….okay, that’s another topic for another time….I think it will be time to take the last of the tomato plants out this weekend since we are going to get a freeze here in the next couple of days and that will kill them and the flowers out back…..I did get the lawn mowed yesterday so that leaves me with doing the weed walk later if I have time since I see a lot of them in the yard…I won’t say not much to do today because I am going to be really busy and have lots to do but I can’t get started on that til around 8 and that will give me time to read some news and have the rest of the coffee….more later….

Well..dang, it’s been raining off and on out here all day so it looks like it is going to be a second day of being off the bike…and even if it wasn’t raining, the wind is blowing out of the NW at around 20 is how I hurt my back that I’m still struggling with so I don’t want to aggravate it…I did get some work done today with sanding and filling more of the door and will start on the second side tomorrow…and I got the first fill of the frame done today, too, so that will have to be sanded tomorrow and then refilled…but I am pulling back how much work I’m going to do on this stuff…this house is 82 years old and I just don’t want to work as hard as it would take to make it perfect….I did get the hinges for that door out of the strip and wire brushed to get them ready to paint in the next couple of days…and I took the ac unit out so I could close the window and get rid of the drafts that have been blowing through here with the high winds…and the heat has been on the past few days and I don’t want to heat the outdoors….so, I did get some stuff done today and will start working on the yard tomorrow…had a big branch fall in the wind that needs to be cut up and bundled along with mowing the lawn…I think I’ll wait to take the tomatoes out til the weekend since I may get 4 or 5 more off the plants by then….but right now it’s time to relax a bit…I did see some video of the dart spacecraft hitting the asteroid and I can’t wait to see the plume that was generated from the Italian cubesat that was right there when it hit…should be later today….

Well…that was expected, hit bed at 11 last night but didn’t get to sleep until almost one…then up at 4:01 and got about another hour before getting out of bed around 6:30 so about 4-5 hours last night and with it being the first no cocktail night in a while, that is about how it’s going to go as I take the next 5 weeks off to prep for all of the doctor’s and dentist appointments I have scheduled….had a day off the bike yesterday and it’s raining and cold out there right now so it could be two in a row and I’m okay with that but my lower back hasn’t healed much and it still hurts to move so I hope that gets better today….my shoulder doesn’t hurt as much as I thought it would after scraping one side of the bathroom door but it is pretty stiff…want to get the rest of the prep done on the door today but the filling will have to be sanded tomorrow and I hope to get it painted by the end of the week…and I need to do the same to the frame but they are in such bad shape that I’m not sure how it’s going to come out…I guess I’ll just live with what I can do….will be taking the tomato plants out this week along with cutting the flowers down at the back of the house and I need to mow the lawn at some point….and it looks like the weather is going to cooperate after today….not much to do today…going to just have more coffee and ease into the day and then get to work on the house and have to figure out what to cook…I am going to refill the freezer with ten pounds of chicken from aldis tomorrow at 69 cents a pound and that will keep me going for a while…I do need to try some other ways to cook it, though, since I’m getting bored with just baking it…..more later….oh, I did watch NASA slam a spacecraft into an asteroid live yesterday and it was pretty cool to try to figure out how to protect the earth from and asteroid strike and I can’t wait for the pictures from the cubesat that was launched along with dart vehicle….pretty cool….

Well..this is pretty weird for me…still have a cup of coffee going and it’s after 2 in the afternoon….this will probably make my sleep tonight even worse than it normally is but there was not enough left in the pot to have tomorrow and I just didn’t want to dump it out…I guess this will be an interesting evening since I’m back on the wagon for the next month or more so that won’t be putting me to sleep either…oh, well…and my heat has been on all day….