Well…damn, I’m exhausted this morning and I know part of it is from not sleeping well at all and my stomach is very upset to the point I need some antacids…but that means I didn’t eat enough yesterday and, thinking about it, I was under 1k calories again and I need to stop doing that to myself….I think I can fix that today with making tacos for dinner later and having a big container of pasta salad that I made yesterday…but I still do need to eat it and that is the hard part…didn’t get out of bed til quarter to 7 today but that is not as good as it looks…tossed and turned all night and only got about 4 hours again and that is just not enough….oh, well…I did get some stuff done yesterday and with mowing the lawn, I don’t have a lot to do today other than the normal routine but I’m not sure if I’m going to the beach today…just got a little burned yesterday and that wears me out, too so I may skip today….man, I need to get going but I don’t feel like it….I know I’ll feel better when I get on the bike but I have no motivation right now….and it’s only 56 out there so it will be pretty damn cold…it will wake me up but I’m so tired…can I just sit here and read the news? Nope…more later….

Well…damn, how the heck do I hurt myself just mowing the lawn? Sitting here now, my right side  and back just had  a stabbing pain in them that has continued as pretty persistent and tight which makes it quite stiff and a little uncomfortable…oh, well…I did get a lot of stuff done today and was pretty busy most of the day…I even made some more pasta salad with some tricolor rotini that I got from Aldi’s that came out pretty good and I can’t wait til it gets cold so I can try it….and got some tomato sauce that was just what my homemade salsa needed and I can now use it when I make tacos tomorrow….had to pick up some more allergy meds today at Meijers since I’m down to my last four and I noticed that the ragweed is blooming right now along the trail so I expect I’ll get hit with that later in the week….and that is the worst for me and started me down the allergy path about 25 years ago…I do have a small self rising 4 cheese pizza in the freezer that I’m going to enhance with pepperoni, green olives, green pepper, and onions along with just a bit of the shredded cheddar I have for the tacos…and that will last me the rest of the week so I won’t have to cook again until the weekend….and that will be out of the freezer since there is not any protein on sale this week…so far, we’ll see about DD on wed….time to read some news…

Well…damn, didn’t even pour my fist cup of coffee until 7:14 this morning and I just can’t get started…or I don’t want to get started…not sure which…I knew I was going to have a hard time this morning when I woke up before 6 but just laid in bed til 6:43…not sure if it’s a bout of depression that is starting or what…maybe I’m just bored with my normal routine….I did sleep okay last night and I’m not sure why I’ve been feeling cold for the past couple of days but I’m sitting here with socks and long pants on and had covers on to sleep last night….and it’s frickin August…supposedly the warmest month of the year…it’s supposed to be in the 90’s this month but it’s not going to get above the 70’s for the rest of the month….still might go to the beach today but I’m not sure yet….I did make some homemade salsa yesterday but didn’t have and tomato sauce to put in it so I may run out to get some today along with some more tortilla chips since I have tomatoes coming ripe and I like to have them with the chips…and I am making tacos today and it will be nice to have lots of chopped tomatoes to put on them…but I am almost out of big tomatoes on the plants and that sucks just when I’m getting used to having them…what a crappy year for the garden….oh, well…not much to do today….man, I sound like a broken record…bike rides and then wing it blah, blah, blah….I wonder what would happen if I just didn’t do anything? Probably die of guilt…I still remember being able to do nothing and enjoy it…..but that was a long time ago….more later….

Well…this is kind of weird…just had to open the front door and a back window to warm it up in here…it’s 68 outside and only 66 in here so I had to do that to keep the furnace from coming on…in frickin August…I did get two rides in this morning and with no pain other than the pinched nerve I always get when I lose some weight and padding near the end of the summer…but that one really hurts as the pressure gets on my left sciatica and then the pain shoots down my left thigh…but it goes away as soon as the pressure does so I guess I can live with it since this has happened ever since I started to ride….I do need to do the weed walk this afternoon but I think I’ll wait until after the soccer match I’m watching right now since there is enough time between that and when the race starts at 3…and I need to see if there are any ripe beans out there, too…the cukes are just not big enough to make pickles yet but I am going have probably 10 of them on the one plant that survived and that is enough for me since the only way I like them is as pickles….okay, need to go read some news to try to find a topic for later in politics….so, more later…

Well…that was a little weird…slept through the night until I woke up at 6:11 and it may have been the cooler temps we’re having out here…it was in the 50’s all day yesterday and I had this place closed up and warmer clothes on to be comfortable….it was so damn nice to have it rain all day yesterday and have a day off that I want to take another one today…but, that’s not going to happen as I wait for it to get light so I can get on the bike here in a few minutes….taking the day off yesterday really helped my legs, I think, since I don’t have much pain in my right thigh right now and that has been bugging me for a while….we’ll see when I get on the bike….I did get a few things done yesterday but I’m not sure what I’m going to do today…I need to start planning the work on the house when I get started on that again in a couple of weeks…will probably work on the dining room and living room first and let the second bedroom go until winter…still have all the doors to do and will use the second bedroom for a work room since I don’t want to carry the doors downstairs…they are pretty heavy being solid wood and not the paper core new ones….I am thinking about making some salsa with the tomatoes I’ve gotten off the plants so far but I need some for the tacos I’m going to make tomorrow so I’ll have to see…need some tomato sauce to round out the flavor and don’t have any in the cupboard so I may have to go out and get some tomorrow….not much to do today…just going to get the rides in and go from there….it looks like no rain for today and that’s okay…but no rain for the entire week is going to be hard on the lawn but I think I’ve accepted that it is going to dry out and I’m not going to do anything about it….and that was hard for me…more later…

Well…after waiting all day for the rain to stop…okay, no I wasn’t…I wanted it to rain as much as possible and I had resigned myself to having a day off the bike pretty early after watching the rain just continue to form up and come in…and it just stopped and I guess I could have gone out since it will stay light for a couple of hours yet but no…I needed a day off to get some of the pain out of everything but that means I’m over on calories by 1200 without burning them off today but I think I can afford that a couple of times this summer…and it is only 58 out there right now and with how cold I’ve been all day, it would have been a little uncomfortable or I’d have to put on a fleece like I’ll have to tomorrow morning when I go out….but there is still more rain coming…yay! and I may not be able to get out until after 10….but I will get two rides in at some point during the day…I am a little depressed that summer is ending and I didn’t take any trips or even do much but go to the beach every day…but that’s okay…spending tons of cash right now with car insurance and house taxes due so there really isn’t a lot of extra right now to just blow on nothing….and I am going to have to have the car fixed and that will be 800 bucks so I need to plan for that and get back to saving so I can buy a new car in the spring…not a new car…but another car that is not rusty and doesn’t have a top that is falling apart….that will be the project for the winter along with finishing the house….I am going to have a couple of cocktails tonight to watch Svengoolie and make it a completely wasted day….

Well…here it is at 12:15pm and it is still raining out here and we just had a couple of rumbles of thunder…the radar still shows a couple more hours of rain but I may be able to get out on the bike around 3 or so but I’m debating if I should….it is still only about 60 out here and I had to put socks and long pants on…I was just freezing for a while but it’s better now…I did get the stove and the kitchen sinks cleaned this morning and now I’m just waiting for the ManU match to start in 15 minutes and I’m going to get comfy on the couch and watch it if they don’t suck like they did the last match….not sure if I’m going to do any other work today…probably not…man, it’s raining hard enough that I can hear it…pretty cool…I will say, as I have, that taking it easy is harder than it looks…I’m getting antsy to do something but I hope that passes….

Well…don’t feel like talking about my crappy sleep today so I won’t…it’s raining out there right now and the radar looks like it’s going to be raining for a few hours so I have a Saturday morning to just sit here, have coffee, and watch some soccer…I think this is probably  only the second or third time this has happened all summer and it may even be that elusive day off the bike I’ve been contemplating for a couple of months now….and that means I need to find something else to do and I think cleaning the kitchen should be it…I’ve let the stove get pretty ugly and the sinks need a cleanup, too so I’ll get to that after I read some news and have more coffee…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much other than ride…I did see lot of sailboats coming out of the channel on the second ride yesterday and that was pretty cool…must have been 30 of them and they appeared to be all of the same class so it was some kind of organized sail….the lake must have turned over again Thursday night since the water was a good 10 degrees colder than it was Thursday and I just couldn’t force myself to swim in it after having it so nice all week…so it was a short day at the beach and that was a good thing for my skin with not having any sunscreen on by choice….I think I’m as tanned as I’ve been in a long time but I’m still pretty white and that makes me laugh a bit….think I’ve reached my peak tan that I can expect but there are still two weeks left in the summer so who knows? Not much to do today…just going to relax for a while and read the news as I wait for the first soccer match to start…and I’ll be back for a couple of these later….don’t have much else to do….more later….

Well…damn, it’s August 12 and it’s only 51 degrees out there…can’t remember it being that cold in August before and I am glad I closed this place up before bed last night…and I think I may have helped the sleep deficit I’ve been experiencing with not getting out of bed until 6:46 this morning and only getting up once….I have pain in my right side this morning and I wonder how I may have hurt it….cripes now I’m hurting myself sleeping? That’s what you younger folks have to look forward to…sounds like fun, huh? Had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done but making potato salad and going out to the beach and I didn’t have sunscreen on so had to use aloe last night with the burn I got on my face and scalp…it’s not that bad but just tight and I don’t want it to peel….I did use the bug spray I bought to keep the biting flies away at the beach yesterday…those damn little things were making it uncomfortable but the Off deep woods seems like it works but keeping it in the cooler might not be a good idea…damn, that goes on cold but it has a nice smell….it looks like I’m not going to get enough tomatoes to make a batch of salsa this year or to spread them around the neighborhood and I can’t figure that out…have never had so few of them since I’ve had a garden and I’m not sure if it’s something I did or if it’s just chance….will have to figure that out over the winter….not much to do today…getting a late start since it is already after 7:30 but I am not motivated to get going right now…maybe by 8 but who knows? I do have to cook some chicken thighs later today and I am going to make tacos over the weekend to use some of the tomatoes I do have….and I am looking forward to making pickles as soon as the cukes are ready but that will be another week I think….more later….

Well…when I was out at the beach today and had just gotten settled in my chair enjoying the sun and water, I looked up just in time to see a train of Model A’s go by…those are old Fords that were made in the 1930’s and these were all restored better than new…and it looked like there was one of every body style including a 32 Victoria that I had a model of when I was a kid…there was even one body style I had never seen that had an actual steamer trunk for a trunk so it may have been another make they were so far away I couldn’t be sure…but still pretty cool to see….