Well…all I have to say is that sucked…slept the worst than I have in a long time and feel like crap this morning…and it is so damn confusing when you do the same thing every night and get different results…maybe I’m just getting old….I did get some work done yesterday and I am happy how the trim came out in the bathroom…and I’ll say it again…I really like the paint I chose…the eggshell finish looks quite rich and it does hide a lot of flaws….I think I need to take a day off to let my right side rest and do some cleaning around here…and I do have some dust in the bathroom that needs to be cleaned up after sanding the filler I used for the trim….I guess I can wait to work on the window til Thursday….and I want to take some of the gravel they left in the street and put it on the raw dirt in my driveway so it won’t get muddy when it rains….and then I won’t have to buy bags of it….I do need to do the grocery run this morning after the bike ride but I don’t have a lot to get so the spend won’t be much either…will probably get out with less than 30 bucks since I don’t need any protein this week…have a freezer full from last week and probably should use that up….not much to do today…I have been pretty consistent with riding the bike downstairs…no, really consistent and I am heading toward 600 miles down there so I may just take an extra day off soon to let my legs heal….won’t be outside on the bike again until April so that will have to be in the next week or so…I do need a little rest….more later….

Well…that was a little weird…didn’t wake up til 5:16 and slept through the night without any tossing and turning and that is something that I am just not used to with all of the problems I’ve had sleeping in the past…I wonder if this is just part of the progression from the sleep aids and cocktails that is still ongoing? I was even able to go back to sleep until after 6 and that was pretty cool…I think part of it was getting so many miles in yesterday and I am going to try to get an outside ride in today, too….can’t wait to get the trim painted in the bathroom today and see what it looks like after getting rid of at least a part of the ugly blue in there…after I get that done, I will start on the window Thursday and that should take the rest of the week to get it ready to paint next week…then I’ll have three weeks to get the walls ready to paint before I can mask off the trim…it was really nice to get out on the bike in just shorts and a t-shirt yesterday but those days are over for a few weeks…and it is supposed to start raining later today and rain for a couple of days with up to an inch coming so I think that will green up the lawn some if we can just get some spring temps….the big gash in my arm is healing up nicely and I really need to remember how sharp the new chisels are so I don’t do more damage….not much to do today….just need to get on the bike here in 8 minutes or so and then get on the bathroom…don’t think the painting will take more than a a couple of hours to do two coats even with doing the sanding first…and then I need to make lunch and use some of the chicken I got last week…and then outside for a ride if I can get going before the rain comes in….more later….

Well…after finishing up my work for the day before 3, I was feeling a little guilty for not doing more today…but then, when I saw the temp was almost 65 at 5:15, I jumped on the bike to put in another 13 miles outside…so with the 8 miles downstairs, that makes 34 miles in today…so I don’t feel guilty anymore but I am going to be sore tomorrow..and that’s already started with my legs but I can deal with that with only having sanding and painting to do tomorrow…but, I am finally done for the day…no more later….

Well…as I talked about earlier this morning, I was going to hit HF for some tools that I needed to make my life easier as I work on this place and make my slow progress from grimy and ugly to acceptable…to me anyway. I needed a set of wood chisels to help with the detail work on all of the wood there is in here and I have already used them to both work on the trim in the bathroom and to injure myself when the smallest one slipped scraping the heating grates and I dug a big chunk out of my arm…pretty darn sharp chisels and they worked great on the trim so I can’t wait to work on the window in there with them. I also got a new half round file, a new wire brush, and a masonry chisel to cut down the blocks that I am going to use to fill in next to the house so I won’t be curling my garden hose in the mud anymore…and the space I’m going to fill is triangular shaped so I’ll need that chisel a lot…and filling in the whole area will give me a place to put a gas grille if I ever pull the trigger and buy one….now I’m done for the day other than getting a ride in outdoors in shorts around 2 o’clock after the showers end out here….worn out again…darn…

Well…running a little late today with not getting up until 6:17 and now I only have 14 minutes to get this done before I have to get on the bike for the indoor ride for the day….slept okay and I am really amazed how well I’ve been sleeping since I quit all of the aids that I had been using for years….and trying to sleep was one of the most anxiety generating things I did in those years…but that is pretty much gone now and being officially retired has helped that….with no schedule to keep anymore, if I have a bad night where I don’t sleep I can adjust my day to fit how I feel…and that is a luxury that everyone should have….had a normal Sunday yesterday with not a lot of work but I did continue removing the paint from the second heat register and I may be able to finish that up today…but it is going to be a busy day with the indoor ride, an errand out to HF, filling the trim in the bathroom to get ready to sand tomorrow, and then getting an outdoor ride in after lunch…and I may even be able to get one in tomorrow but then the weather goes back down into the 40’s for the rest of the month and into April….and that sucks….but that makes it a little urgent to get the indoor stuff done before I need to put all my time into getting the yard cleaned up and getting the garden border done along with choosing what perennials I want to plant around the back of the house…I did notice I have crocuses popping up in the dirt there so that will be cool and I am thinking about some small bell shaped plants that we had around the house when I was growing up…okay, just had to check the name and they are called Lily of the Vallies….and they thrive in shade so I can plant them on the east side of the house…time to get on the bike…more later….

Well…I was trying to get this one started and had my fingers one key off on the home row of the computer and lots of weird looking words came out…but, I fixed that so here goes….it is the first day of spring today and I don’t feel like I have spring fever at all…in fact I feel like I have reverse spring fever with just feeling exhausted today but it’s my rest day so that works out okay….it was nice enough to get out on the bike today but I resisted that since it is my day off and I really do need some rest for some reason…so, I’ll just do a double tomorrow to make up for it….I have realized that I do need some new tools as I work on all the wood around here…so, after spending 30 bucks at HF Friday, I’ll be back there tomorrow to pick up a new multi purpose file and a set of 4 wood chisels getting ready for working on the doors in here and cleaning up the corners of the baseboards…the 4 pack has chisels from a quarter inch to one inch for only 8 bucks and the file is only 4 bucks and they all should come in handy….and give my new putty knife a rest…and I had to spend 30 bucks on allergy meds this morning,too…got 5 bottles of generic flonase on amazon when the name brand stuff costs about 15 bucks per bottle so that’s a pretty good deal and I am going to need it if my allergies keep getting worse…I am still waiting for real spring to get here and that is not going to  happen for the rest of March…that sucks but the trails are already melted and that is 3 weeks earlier than last year so I can live with it…I do want to talk about some tv and that will be in the next one…more later…

Well…darn, my right thumb is finally reacting to wire brushing the register grate Friday and then sanding the rest of the baseboards in the bathroom yesterday…every time I move it, it hurts even without any load on it…so, I guess it’s a good thing that today is a rest day…or an easy rest day…I may hit the latest grate with some more cleaner today but that will be the extent of the work today…slept okay last night and feel okay this morning and it was pretty cool that it was clear when I went out of the paper….almost full moon and lots of stars and I’m sure my neighbors think I’m weird when I just stand out my back door and look up for a few minutes….but I really don’t care…I am hoping that it gets warm enough to get out on the bike today but it looks like the race schedule is going to keep me off for the day…and that’s okay…Sundays are supposed to be a day off everything and there will be plenty of spring days to take advantage of the weather…and today is the first day of spring but this week is not going to look like it…one warm day tomorrow and then back in the 40’s for the rest of the month…ick….I did figure out that I’m going to make a brick border for my garden this year so it looks a little more finished and I can mow right over it if I set the bricks flush to the ground…will probably stay with the grey and red colors that I used for the trash bin landing pad that I put in last year and it should look cool…and it should only cost me about 30 bucks to do it…not much to do today…I do have to break down the 10 pound bag of leg quarters I got Friday and have been letting thaw enough so they are not one big frozen block…and I need something for meals today but I guess I can make pasta since I have a lot of that….but right now, I’m going to enjoy another cup of coffee and read the news and try to find a topic for later….more later….

Well…yeah, on the first one today, I got somewhat off track and fell back into talking about work on the house and that’s not what the first one of the day is for…so, let’s go back to what ‘life” posts are supposed to be about….it is nice that it has been raining out here for almost a whole day now but I’m not sure if it’s going to be warm enough to make the lawn green up this soon…there was still ice under the sod that I had to replace in the front of the house and I may have been mistaken about who tore it up in the first place…I thought it was the guys who dug up the road but now I think it was the person who plowed the snow at the vacant house next door since the yard along their driveway is just as torn up as my terrace…but it went back together okay so I can live with it…not sure what I did to injure my right tricep but it has hurt like crazy the past couple of days…I wonder if it was getting on  the outdoor bike? I did get a good ride in this morning and did the 8 miles in a little over a half hour and that is getting toward the record…no, I haven’t kept track of that but it wouldn’t be unusual if I did….I did get laundry started and it sounds like it just finished so I need to go down and put it in the dryer…feel pretty good this morning and I do have to remember to get a couple of cups of coffee in me before I get on the bike…only had half a cup is not enough fuel to get these old legs working….more later….