Well…damn, 60 miles today…and that was not in the plan at all…but after I got to 45 early in the afternoon, I just had to try it….and it wasn’t bad…still had energy left to be able to sprint on the way back…no dead legs or other problems other than I have a few new pains that I don’t normally get doing shorter distances….but, I can live with them…and now I have to figure out if I keep this up just to see how long I can go doing 4 rides a day….or not…I probably should start doing some other things as I talked about the other day…have lots of cleaning to do and I want to replace the lattice on the front steps with solid boards to make it look a little more modern…oh, and with the 60 miles today, I went over 2,000 miles for the year to get to one third of the goal….I’m sure glad I got the new tire for the back of  bike since this one will only last until about October at the rate I’m going…okay, done for the day…need to get a couple of things done before the hearings start….

Well…it’s almost two and it’s been an okay day so far….do I dare say that I even felt almost happy out on the second ride and I don’t know where that came from….and I have 45 miles in so far and mowed the lawn so I’m pretty sure I’ll be out for a 4th one after the Portugal/Czech republic soccer match that is on at 2:45…and I even mowed the lawn in between rides and the mower is still working fine after I fixed it a couple of weeks ago….still need to get the pork chops in the marinade here in a minute but I need to take a little break first…the soreness is starting to bubble up in my legs but I think they will still be a go when the soccer match is over around 5….I think I will make popcorn for the hearings at 8 tonight and I laughed my butt off when Mark Hamill popped up in my twitter feed this morning cradling a big bowl of popcorn in his pj’s in anticipation for tonight….it was good to have a lot of work to do today so I really didn’t have to think much…just to plan the sequence of the rides, lunch, and mowing….now it’s break time…I need some water….

Well…damn, it’s the middle of June and my heat came on last night and that is just wrong…and I’ll have to wait to get on the bike this morning since it is only about 48 out there and I need at least 50 to go out without long pants on…brrr…was up a bunch of times last night but slept okay and feel okay this morning so I’ll take that…and it looks like I have an hour before it will be warm enough to go out on the bike so I’ll have the chance to have enough coffee to get me started today….it was nice to have rain all day yesterday and I hope it’s enough to green my lawn back up after I fed it before the rain started a couple of days ago….but I know I’ll have to start watering it again and need to make the decision of how much brown I can accept before next week when it’s not supposed to rain at all and the temp is getting back up into the 80’s….and I also need to think about how much I want to go to the beach with the nice weather coming…damn, what a problem to have….I did get 5 of the 8 bean seeds I planted for extras to come up over the past day so that is cool but still no extra peppers and I must have planted 20 or 30 of them…I guess I’ll just have to do without them this year….but I have excess tomatoes coming up all over the garden from seeds that were left from the dropped tomatoes at the end of the season last year and I am a little curious what kind they are….not much to do today….just going to clean some after doing the bathroom yesterday and I’m going to feed all of the flowers that have come up along the house…not sure when I’m going to have to mow the lawn again but it won’t be today…and I need to get some of the pork chops I got yesterday in a marinade so I can have some of them tomorrow…oh, and I do need to watch the January 6th hearings tonight and I think everyone should….this is going to reveal just how bad the repubs are in their conspiracy against you, me, and the country…and it’s not going to be pretty….more later….

Well…I’m glad I decided to go out for a ride before I did the grocery run this morning…was waiting for a dry hole that was coming this way for a second ride but it just filled in and it looks like rain for the next 3 or 4 hours so probably only one ride today…unless I go out late after it’s over but I’m not sure I want to…so probably 3 rides tomorrow to make up for it….I did get out to GH this morning to get garden food and might have enough for half the summer anyway…then I hit aldis and got back here before 10 but still had a run to Hardings to make to get some assorted pork chops for 1.49 a pound and milk they had on sale…got 6 pounds of chops to restock the freezer and have some in a couple of days after the leftovers are done…I think taking the battery switch out of the back of the car has made a difference…it seems to start better…not like the battery is weak and that is pretty cool…and I drove almost 30 miles today which is 3 times what I normally do in a week…but now the car will sit til Sunday and getting the paper….I did get some cleaning done, too, and have a nice smelling bathroom with the second set of towels hung up…pretty nice to have two sets now….but, soccer is coming on in a few minutes and I am done working for the day…

Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed til 6:23 but was up and down all night and I’ll still take it….feel better this morning and might even have a little energy to go out on the bike here in a few minutes…even though it is only 52 out there right now…it is supposed to rain today but we have the same damn thing going on that happens all the time out here…the storms are splitting and going north and south and leaving us in the dry slot in between….so it looks like more money going into the lawn with watering it over the next few days…darn…didn’t get much done yesterday and that is a little disappointing…I think part of it is a lack of planning and just winging the days when I know that I’ll gravitate toward doing nothing if I do that….but I really don’t have a lot to do outside here anymore with all of the big outside projects done….I do have to brave the construction and run into GH to the depot there to get the garden food I need since they don’t carry it up here and that is a little weird….might do that tomorrow or later today if it rains…it is a little weird that I’m using Meijers less and less as they have less bargains on sale every week…this week, I’m not even going there at all and will just go to Aldi’s and Hardings to get sale items…I think they’ve outsmarted themselves by forcing you to buy multiple items to get the sale prices…I mean how much of one thing does a person living alone need? Not much to do today…need to ride here in a minute and then out to aldi’s but that is about all I have planned…will try to get a second ride in later this morning but I still have my fingers crossed that I’ll get rained out….more later….

Well…I almost forgot about this small, cool thing that happened this morning….I had all my trash out to the curb for pickup today and when the workers who are working on the curbs and sidewalk across the street showed up and parked right in front of my trash bin so there was no way the garbage truck could get to it…it steamed me a little bit and when I got back from the first ride, I pulled up in front of the house to talk to one of the guys and ask him to move his truck so the trash could get picked up…and the guy said the truck had already been there and he had pulled my trash bin over to an open space so they could pick it up….and I thought that was a pretty cool thing…sometimes little things make me happy…but, they didn’t pick up my yard waste so I do need to call about that tomorrow….oh, well….

Well…not sure if I should be proud of myself or to feel guilty but I only rode twice today even with having enough time to go out for a third one…I could even go out right now at 6:07 but I just don’t want to…I didn’t get much done today with not sleeping and feeling like I had my feet in sand all day…it was a lot of work to just do the normal stuff and I hope it will be better tomorrow…and it should if I can get more than 4 hours of sleep tonight….not going to talk about how many calories I took in because I’m pretty sure it wasn’t enough even with only doing 30 miles…..and I have broken my habit of dry roasted peanuts at night so that should work to help the weight come off…I know I’ve been shedding water like crazy all day but a lot of that is drinking much more since my big toe is starting to twinge and that means the dehydration is coming back…and I don’t want a full blown gout attack or I’ll be off my feet for a few days….still haven’t got the renewal for my car plates so I decided to not wait and renewed them online so the new tabs will be here in time for my birthday….I did start looking for a bike light so I can take it out in the dark if I want and I found a rechargeable one with the taillight for only 16 bucks so I may buy that this week along with the new bike bag…but that will total 40 bucks and I don’t want to spend any money with car insurance and summer taxes coming up in August that should total close to a grand….still need to be careful what I spend these days…but, I’m not buying anything at Meijers this week so that may even out….the car tags were 81 bucks and that hurt a bit spending that much money…and I need to put gas in the car tomorrow that should be 30 bucks….ouch….oh, well….

Well…just discovered the downside to getting up at 5am on a fresh coffee morning…I got started on this one without the benefit of coffee since the coffee maker doesn’t even start until 6….ick….and it was a really crappy night of sleep getting to bed at 11 but not sleeping til almost 1, then tossed and turned all night until I gave up at 5 and got up…I’m pretty sure that 4 hours of sleep is not enough but I don’t know what to do about it…don’t want to go back to the sleep aids since they make me feel like crap all morning so that doesn’t leave me many options…I guess I’ll figure it out….and maybe get a nap this afternoon…it did rain out here some yesterday but not as much as I hoped and I’m not sure if it was enough to save the lawn….putting food on it before was a good idea,though, and I hope that will help….I do have to remember to drag the two big bags of yard waste out here soon since I didn’t want to put them out in the rain last night and have them wet and soggy for the people picking them up today….it was nice to get the garden stuff done yesterday and show some progress out there but I am disappointed with the lack of peppers this year…only got a couple last year and with the hundreds of seeds I put in, I expected more…oh, well…not much to do today…going to get a ride in about 7:30 or so and then out to depot to try again to get garden food and some more jb weld in case the mower falls apart again….and then on the bike for the second one about 10….but don’t have anything else planned for the day…it may be a low key one anyway with not sleeping much last night….more later….

Well…after getting an early ride in today and getting wet in the process, I was almost resigned to only doing one ride until it stopped raining and the radar looked like I’d have a while to get out without getting wet again…and I did…but I was smart for a change today and only did two rides even when I had time to do a third one…and I feel pretty good about that…maybe I’m breaking the compulsion to ride and ride? Doing three a day has taken up all my time and I really do want to do other things…so this evening, instead of a ride, I just fooled around in the yard and got some work done…trimmed the bushes growing into my yard from the house to the East so I can mow between the garden and the fence easier and got out my big pole cutter and took the top off a crappy bush in the empty house so my garden will get more light…then took down a  bunch of dead branches, bundled them up and put them out for pickup tomorrow….and filled another yard bag with the trimmings from the bushes….then got the tomato cages put in along with some stakes for the excess tomato plants…..all in all, a pretty productive 2 hours out there…and I don’t feel nearly as worn out as doing 45 miles so that is a plus and I hope that will continue tomorrow…I mean, isn’t 30 miles a day enough? I’ll probably still do a 45 miler every once in a while but not every day….unless I get bored….and that happens a lot….

Well…as I mentioned earlier, I decided to head out to depot to get food for my gardens this morning and had a little problem getting the car to start…still haven’t removed the battery cut off switch that failed and wouldn’t disconnect anymore and that started to work this morning…so, once I figured that out, I went over to depot to get the fertilizer and they had the damn aisle blocked off with those gates they use when someone is working in the aisle….but there was no one to be seen and not even anyone that I could find to get them to unlock the gate…what a damn pain in the butt….so, a wasted trip and came home empty handed….at least I didn’t have to travel 15 miles to get there….still, a pain in the butt and I’ll have to make another trip….crap…