Well…yeah, I know…there is lots of stuff going on but nothing that has pissed me off enough to write one in my head on the bike ride so I don’t think there will be a political one today…I’ll never say never but I’m pretty worn out from all of the work from today and all I want to do is write this one and then have some water and take a frickin break…today started out as normal for me with getting out for the first ride a little after 8 and got back here just after 9 and decided it would be the perfect day to get after the detail work on the front yard so I dragged the edger out and edged the sidewalks then got the string trimmer out and did the rest of the trimming…then I mowed the lawn and put food and weed killer on it and then cleaned up…after a quick lunch, I got back on the bike for another hard 15 miles and when I got back here I was so dead that I thought I was just going to melt into the couch for the rest of the afternoon…but, after about 20 minutes of that, I decided that I had enough of looking through dirty windows so I got out and washed all of the outside of the windows and then remembered that the chain on the bike needed lube, so I took care of that, put the window washing stuff away, and came back here for this one…can I take a break now? I should be able to get a couple political ones done tomorrow since it looks like it is going to rain all day…supposed to get and inch or two of rain and that is a lot…going to put mason jars over the seedlings I planted to protect them from pests and the rain…so I better find where I stored all of those….damn, more work to do…..

Well…okay, this is weird…I should hurt like crazy everywhere after the day I had yesterday but I don’t…not really much pain anywhere so I guess the ibuprofen I took for it last night worked….and I’ve been able sit around here in shorts for the past day and that hasn’t happened since I moved in here…I even slept okay last night and didn’t get up til around 6 so I am a little confused about what is going on…but, I’ll take it…feel okay this morning if a little tired but that is pretty normal and the coffee will help with that after I get a cup down….okay, I just noticed that my right arm and shoulder hurts and I know that is from spading the grass, dirt, and moss off the blocks next to the garage yesterday but it looks good so it was worth it…and I want to get at the front yard today with doing the edging and running the string trimmer…and I need to haul the stiff, heavy duty hose out and run it around the back and side of the house so I can have water in front while I wait for the new collapsable hose to come…and then I can feed the front lawn and hit it with weed killer, too….so, does it sound like I’m going to abuse myself again today? Yep….and I’m going to make a homemade pizza for lunch to fuel it…another busy day that is going to start on the bike in a few minutes…but more coffee first…more later….

Well….one of these days I am going to stop torturing myself and take a day off…but that didn’t happen today and I really don’t know why I keep doing this to myself. It started out with getting on the bike at about 8 am even with feeling pretty damn crappy but it was 60 and I am not going to miss an empty trail and going out in just shorts and a t-shirt…so, I got a nice hard ride in and was back here by 9 or so…then I got right on doing the rest of my veggie planting as soon as I got back here and planted everything that was sprouted downstairs…beans, cukes, tomatoes, and even both kinds of sunflowers and that took me until almost 11…then lunch and back on the bike for another 15 miles and I thought I was going to be done after I got back here and took a shower…but, after an hour of being lazy and reading the news, I took a wander out in back and thought I’d get at the stuff that has been beside the garage since I moved in…and had to move what looks like well pipe…what the heck that is for I’ll never know…after I moved that, I got at clearing off the blocks that are along the garage and that were covered in dirt, grass, and moss…so I spaded them off and then washed all the rest of the dirt off too…along the way, I had to chop out about 20 small stumps that were left from the brush that I cut out last fall…and that took me until almost 4 so I guess I had an 8 hour day again today…and I got sunburned to go with everything…oh, and I did discover that I had 5 of the sunflowers that I planted outdoors that had come up so I’ll have at least 12 of them if they all survive….so, another busy day…I wonder when I’ll get a day off? I’m pretty damn sore….

Well…man, I feel like crap this morning….just worn out completely and I really should think about taking a day off the bike…I know, I was going to take yesterday off but when it looked like the rain had stopped, I just couldn’t resist getting out…and about a mile in it started to rain…and it rained so hard that I stopped at one of the pavilions along the trail to wait it out…something I never do once I get started….after about 5 minutes, I couldn’t take it anymore so I got back on the bike and did the rest of the 15 miles in the pouring rain…but the stupid thing was I did the same thing in the afternoon…but in a t-shirt so I was wet AND cold and I think that took a lot out of me….and it rained so hard my shoes were filled with water and they are still soaked this morning….but it’s 59 degrees out there right now and when it stops raining I’ll probably get out and torture myself again….I do wonder how long I’ll be able to keep this up….I do have a lot of planting to do today with the beans and cukes needing to go in along with more tomatoes before they get too big…and one of my sunflowers that I planted outdoors has come up to go with the 7 more that have sprouted downstairs that also need to be planted today…so, I do have a lot of stuff to do today but not right now…I need coffee and to read the news first…and to feel better….more later….

Well…damn, it’s dark in here….it’s almost 10 and I still need to have the lamp on here in the living room…and yes, I only have one lamp…after all, it’s all I need…I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with not being able to get on the bike today…it’s starting to get a little old with the lockdown still going on for a few more weeks and I didn’t realize how much the bike rides every day were keeping me from being so bored that time seems to stop…I did get some chicken in a marinade that I am going to make for lunch and read a bunch of news but what am I going to do for the rest of the day? Man, I used to be much better at doing nothing than I am now and I wonder why that would be? I really don’t have a lot left to do on the house…on the inside anyway….and I’m not sure why I haven’t finished that…could it be the depression coming back? I think I may be getting a little concerned that I’m going to have to move back into an apartment with the housing market frozen and just a little more than 7 months til I have to be out of here….Okay…need to prep the carrots and potatoes that I am going to make for lunch and I need to stop thinking….but that is going to be hard….more later…maybe…

Well…yeah….running late this morning with all of my motivation gone for some reason…didn’t even get out of bed until after 6 and then just laid here on the couch until 7:28….just feel worn out this morning and I wonder if it’s all the work I did yesterday….got the tomatoes in but I think I got the timing wrong and they were too big…they didn’t take to the transplanting too well and I think I’m going to lose most of them…but, I have more started from seeds downstairs to replace them…and I’ll get those in next week after they get a little bigger…the peppers seem to be doing okay in the overflow garden and I have beans and cukes that need to go out next week, too…so I may be able to salvage the garden….it looks like I may have to wait to get out on the bike with the rain that is stacked up all the way back through Illinois and I think that may be a good thing….have had a lot of days of doubles lately and a day off with nothing to do might be just what I need to rest and recover…not sure how I’m going to deal with it but I’ll give it a try….not much to do today….can’t think right now but I do know I need to marinate some chicken to cook for lunch but I’m not sure what I’m going to make with it…might make a pouch with carrots and potatoes but  right now all I want to do is finish this and drink more coffee….more later…

Well…that was a weird night that didn’t fit any of the normal patterns…tossed and turned a bunch, so much that the mattress was displaced almost 6 inches from even and the sheets and comforter were twisted into knots…strange….don’t feel too bad this morning though, so I guess I’ll take it…and that was three days without any allergy meds but I am pretty plugged up so I may take some later today…the stimulus cash showed up in my checking account this morning and I’m not sure if I am going to spend any of it…I would like a gas grill  but the cheapest 3 burner is almost 150 bucks with having to buy a tank with it so I may need to think about that for a while…and I can’t think of anything else that I need since I already bought the tires for the car…it is a nice luxury that I can afford something if I want it but being frugal has served me well so I don’t think I’ll change now….with all the rain coming in over the next few days I’m not sure if I should plant my veggies or not…we’re supposed to get two inches of rain and that may just flood them so I may wait until next week to put them out…all of my sunflower seeds have come up so I may plant them outdoors since they won’t be in the garden and that might protict them…and I have some stuff to go in 5 gallon buckets so I may do those today or tomorrow…not much to do today….need to do the grocery run and then get on the bike to get the first ride in this morning…then the second one this aft…I think my legs will like going down to only one ride with the rain over the next 4 days…and we may be able to watch some storms, too so that will be cool…and it may be warm enough to shut the heat down for a while….it was kind of cool yesterday putting the top down on the car and then just pulling it in the garage and leaving it down overnight…going to be cold but I’m leaving it down for the grocery run this morning….more later….

Well…the damn stimulus check came today! It was supposed to be direct deposit but somehow the morons in charge screwed that up….and that was going to be a problem depositing the check with my bank having closed all of the in person banking….I had completely forgotten about drive through banking and just sat here saying duh….so I jumped in the car and ran out to the bank and got that done with no waiting…and now I have to try to figure out how to make sure any others are direct deposit…but it’s not too much of a pain to do the paper checks so no big deal…the day started out with getting out to Menards to get garden supplies and got them all with no problem there, either…even got my tomato cages for only 95 cents each so I bought 20 of them…should have enough for the overflow garden, too…and I noticed the first bean plant is coming up in the overflow garden so maybe the seeds I planted there will work…and I have at least one of those downstairs too, along with all of my sunflowers so I know I’ll have at least 8 of them….oh, and I got two bike rides in today too….I may wait to plant the tomatoes until Friday since we are supposed to get thunderstorms Thursday and I don’t want to chance hurting them when they are just transplanted….but right now, it’s 3 and I need to take a few minutes off…and to look for a political topic….more later….

Well….it appears that 4:45 is the new, standard wake up time and I’m not sure what I think about that….I knew it was going to happen so I was tempted to take an otc sleeping pill just to try to break that cycle but I’ve gotten out of that habit so I think I’ll just take the 5 hours and call it a win….and yesterday was the second day with no allergy meds since I’m trying to make them last a while but I don’t feel too bad so no damage so far….I do have to try to eat more…two days of one meal a day made the bike ride torture with running out of steam about 3 miles in…the excess wind didn’t help either and I felt so bad yesterday afternoon that I had to hit the couch for an hour or so…I guess I do need more than a thousand calories a day to support my activities…and I’ll be going back to double rides today so I think I need to get started on eating something soon…still have some homemade bread to toast this morning and I do need to get some fruit this week since I need to eat healthier and I do like oranges and apples….I am going out this morning to try to get my garden supplies so I can plant tomorrow or Thursday and I am not looking forward to it…shopping has become a pain lately and I just want it over….not much to do today…just the shopping and then some outside work after the first ride….the grass seed I put in the front is sprouting and filling in the bare spots and that is cool…and I still have some seed left to fill some of the back yard, too…more later….

Well…that was a mistake…didn’t take any allergy meds before bed last night and I am miserable this morning with all of the usual symptoms but even worse than normal…so, I am going to suffer all day until I can take something tonight as I need to make the meds last a while…what a pain in the butt…and I didn’t sleep either so I am grumpy today…and feeling like crap….I did get two rides in yesterday and that is the only thing I did all day other than cook…but today is going to be a one ride day with the temp only getting up to 50 or so and feeling so worn out….I may get out to start prepping the trim on the front and side of the front porch so I can paint it later in the week when it warms up but I may just wait until it warms up Wednesday…I do need to get out to get my tomato cages tomorrow along with some potting soil so I can get at planting Thursday with the end of the frost…I did have the first couple of garlic plants come up in the overflow garden yesterday but something is digging in it and I found black sunflower seed shells all over it that must have been buried there before I planted…weird….not much to do today…coffee, coffee, and more coffee first and then I’ll just ease into the day…don’t have the energy to do much else….more later…