Well…that was a little better…slept okay and even had some dreams last night that hasn’t happened in quite a while….but my allergies are really bad and I am coughing like crazy….crap….at least I’m not as sore as I was yesterday and I can move a bit today but there is still pain in my back and sides…and the weirdest thing is that the fingers on my left hand have hurt for a few days now and I’ll be damned if I know how I hurt them….didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to get going on the dining room today and I probably will but I’ll need more coffee before I do that….and I need to find topics for later today but my brain is fogged up with sleep right now even though I was good last night…and I think that is just getting old…not sure when I’m going to mow the lawn this week with the leaves starting to fall and I am waiting for the changeover to bagging as I need to pick the leaves up…but that won’t happen til next week at least…probably get one more mow in before that….and I need to plan meals better since I have too much food in the fridge right now…need to cook the rest of the marinaded pork loin today and then I’ll have some for sandwiches and it should last longer than raw….and I need to cut the second one up and get it in the freezer and I really hope they still have more when I do the grocery run tomorrow…and I need to pick up the prep prescription for the 24th and that’s going to cost me over 50 bucks since it’s not covered by Medicare…I’ll never figure out those rules….not much to do today…just going to have coffee and read the news as I wait for the temp to come up enough to get out on the bike…it’s only 42 right now and it needs to get much nearer to 50 before I go…there is a gale warning up for later today with winds nearing 40 so I need to get out this morning before it starts to blow….more later….

Well….trying out a new time of eating that is supposed to lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and give you more energy…read an article about it today that people who ate all their meals within a 6 hour period earlier in the day experience some real health benefits…but that’s not what this is about…just tried some of the new pork loins I got buy one get one free at Meijers this morning and I’ve never had one that is more tender…I did marinate the pieces in my standard marinade with olive oil, soy sauce, worst sauce, onion and garlic powder, and Italian seasoning…oh, and I threw in a little dijon mustard to try to spice it up a bit and then let them set in the fridge for 5 hours….I’ve used this on other pork loins before and they came out pretty tough so I think it’s actually the meat itself….the loins are quite small in diameter and are from a company called Hatfield that I’ve never heard of before…I barely even needed a knife to cut them they were so tender…so, it looks like I’ll get two more of them and try to find some room in the freezer for them…might have to throw out one of the ham bones I have in there since they take up enough space for two pork loins…and at 1.33 a pound, it is cheap protein that can be used in all kinds of dishes…but two more means I’ll have about 13 pounds in the freezer and that should last me the rest of the year…can’t wait to try some just cut into chops and seared before they go in the oven…that will be a good test for how tender they are…it was nice to have something that wasn’t chicken for a change….

Well…still too cold to get out on the bike so I did make the run over to Meijers to pick up a couple of pork loins…got 9 pounds for only about 12 bucks and that makes it 1.33 a pound and that is a pretty good deal for how high pork has been lately…and I even got some apples for 79 cents a pound since I need to put more fruit and veggies into my diet…I may even pick up a couple more to stock the freezer when I do the big grocery run wed….now I need to figure out what to cook with them…maybe some stir fry? I am going to marinate some of one of them to have some chops tomorrow but I need to figure out how to keep them tender when I cook them….need to look for a political topic right now and will be back later for one of those….more later…

Well…I’m sure you don’t care how I slept last night so I’m not going to talk about that….okay, yeah, I’m going to say I didn’t get out of bed til 7:25 and I really don’t care about that with it being so cold I won’t be able to get out on the bike til 11 or so…and that means I need to get off my butt and get started on the dining room today…or I may run out to get a pork loin since Meijers has them buy one get one free and I wouldn’t mind marinating some thick pork chops or maybe cooking some in the slow cooker with potatoes and carrots….but they are still going to cost about 8 or 10 bucks each and I’m not sure if that is a bargain or not….still over 2 bucks a pound but I think I can afford to splurge a little….with all of the pain I have right now, it feels like I have the flu or something…my hands even hurt and my back is no better than yesterday so I am hoping for a day off tomorrow or Wed….not sure at all what the heck I did to my left hand but it hurts like crazy today…now I need to think back to what I’ve done over the past few days so I can figure that out….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I need to clean today after noticing that just sanding on the bathroom door frame left the stove and range hood covered in dust and I am not looking forward to having this place dusty again as I work on the dining room…but that’s what happens when I work on this place…ick…not much to do today….I will come back for a political one today even if I have to read the news for hours this morning…I know I’ve slacked off on that lately but after 10K of these I’m not sure if I have anything new to say…I will try, though, and I guess that’s all I can do…more later….

Well…have been reading the news a lot today but nothing has grabbed me enough to formulate a post from it…so, what to do? I think I’ll just noodle a bit and see what happens…I think I’ve figured out that it is going into the wind that is hurting my back since it is not healing at all and actually hurts worse than it did yesterday..and today was another windy day on the bike and I went pretty hard coming back, too, and it was nice to have the rides done before 11 this morning…saw a big flock of turkeys on the old paper plant land today and there must have been over 25 of them just standing there feeding and that was pretty cool…I am inches away from giving up and going into long pants on the bike soon…it’s only going to be in the 40’s for highs later in the week and I’ll need warmer clothes for that…and it’s supposed to rain Tuesday and Wed so I may be able to have a recovery day off from the bike…but then I’ll probably just hurt my back working on this place since I do need to get on the trim and windows in the dining room…okay, that’s enough for now…want to watch the race and Man U….more later….

Well…another worn out morning and I’m getting pretty tired of it…ha, ha….that’s funny and I didn’t even try to be….what if I don’t get on the bike this morning? Just want to lie back down on the couch and veg out completely for the whole day but I know I won’t…..I did get a few things done yesterday but they were just little stuff like putting things away after doing other jobs so I don’t know if that counts as working or not…and I’m not sure if I’ll get anything done today with races and football and soccer on….but that won’t start until around noon so I will need to get two rides in before that…and it’s 7:13 and it’s not light yet so I do get to sit here for a bit and have a second cup of coffee before I even think of how cold it is out there and how I am going to freeze with shorts on…at least the wind is not blowing like it was yesterday…I hope…and maybe it won’t be as miserable as it was, either….felt like crap yesterday afternoon and I think it was another bout of not eating enough for a few days and I wonder if I ate enough yesterday? Probably not…but I don’t care….getting really tired of even thinking about that….not much to do today…it appears like I may get a day off this week with rain coming in Tuesday so I do need to get two rides in today and I’m not looking forward to it….I should clean some today and I may but I don’t even want to think about that right now….just want more coffee and to read the news a bit…i wonder if I should do full thermasuit this morning? It’s always better to be too warm than too cold so I’ll have to think about that for a minute…more later….

Well…got two rides in this morning but it was just brutal going into the 20mph+ wind and it gusted so hard on the point that it almost stopped me dead in my tracks…I think I may have injured my right thigh from it, too, since it now hurts just sitting here…and it was cold enough that I needed gloves and double socks to make it bearable…it was only 48 when I went out at 8:15 and it had not really warmed up much for the second ride…a finger on my left hand was white from it and it took about 20 minutes to get the feeling back in it…but I think part of that is just my hands doing what they do every day and getting numb after 25 miles or so…I really did think about abandoning the second ride but kept slogging forward until I got past the point and then the trail was a little sheltered from the NW wind…and that made the ride back a top gear sprint all the way from the beach and that was fun…but now I just want to sit here and stay warm…and maybe find a political topic for later…who knows?

Well…it’s really disappointing when you wake up and then lie in bed for what seems like a long time and it’s still only 7 when you get out of bed…and I’m still pretty darn sore today with my back and obliques still howling at me and I sure don’t know how I could have hurt them this much…will have to think about that so I don’t do it again….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get a lot done and today looks the same….going to clean in here a bit and maybe get two rides in but it’s only 44 out there so that will wait a while and I am enjoying that the weather change won’t allow me to get out for a while…I know I’m going to have to go to my full thermasuit soon and I probably should have yesterday with my hands and feet getting pretty cold but that means a season has changed and I’m not ready to accept that yet….I am thinking about doing a color tour in a couple of weeks and it will be the first one out here so I’ll need to look at some maps to see where I want to go….I do have gps on my phone so that should help…I do need to get started on looking at the suggestions my daughter has been sending me for our UK trip so I’ll be ready for the zoom meeting later in the month with the travel agent…it’s a lot of work that I wasn’t expecting…and I need to call spectrum since I haven’t gotten any info on my colonoscopy that is scheduled for later in the month, too, but not now…I’m taking the weekend off to just relax for a bit….not much to do today…need to get everything done before the Michigan game at noon and there are a couple of races on later that I will be able to nap to…need to decide if I want to go out on the bike early in full thermasuit or not…don’t want to…it’s nice and warm in here and it’s only 44 out there…more later…

Well…yeah, I know I said that I was going to take the day off the bike but when I went out to the garage to get the gallon of coolant I bought last week to water it down to 50/50, it felt okay and warm enough to go so I checked the temp and it was 51 but felt warmer up here so I suited up and got out but when I got down the hill, the wind was blowing like crazy out of the NE so the ride out was okay but it was brutal coming back…and it was just about glove time and my hands were cold by the time I got back here and I am still cold even with taking a hot shower and now in sweats….but it was nice to get out and now I only feel half guilty and can have dinner today….and I have a clean garage! Just stood there and looked at it when I got back here….and I have a clean car, too….and tonight I get to have my one night of cocktails and catch up on some tv….