Well…I wonder if they have jump starters for people? I sure need one this morning with not being able to get going at all…have been up for an hour and am just now getting to this…and I feel pretty crappy with the allergies just kicking my butt….I may have to take some generic zyrtec that my daughter gave me when I was out there to visit since I won’t go out to the stores anymore with the restrictions they have in place…and I can’t use the generic flonase since it suppresses your immune system and that’s the last thing I need right now….so I guess I’m just going to resign myself to being miserable for the next month or so…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but screwing around a little around here and it looks like today will be the same…I am going to do the kitchen floor but don’t plan on doing much else since I do like to take the weekends off…and my motivation tank is empty…I do want to get the recycling out today but that will take a grand total of about 3 minutes and that won’t do a lot to quell the boredom…ha, I’ll bet you haven’t seen anyone use quell in a long time…just heard a weird noise that I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from and then realized that it is from the sparrows on the feeder attached to the front window…it is almost empty and they are banging on the bottom of it…and the sound is amplified by the window….the little shits went through 2 pounds of feed yesterday and I even had a grackle try to land on the hanging feeder…he was a little too big and it was funny to see him try…probably should fill the feeders this morning…but not now…need more coffee first…more later…

Well…just took a look at my veggie starters downstairs and one of my jalapenos came up…and it is one of the original seeds that I put in a couple of weeks ago so maybe there is hope for the rest of them?  The tomatoes are almost 6 inches tall already and will be more than ready when this damn weather warms up…froze my butt off on the bike today and gave up after only one ride….I wonder if I should start the cukes, too…..or the beans? Nope, don’t have room for them and I think they can wait since planting won’t be for a month or so….can’t wait to get the sunflowers going along with the rest of the flowers, too and I’m glad that I got them before they shut down all of the garden centers…man, I can’t wait till this whole virus thing is over….just sitting here on hold until May 1st now and I am itching to get at the outside…oh, well….

Well…feel pretty lousy this morning and I think it’s just the allergies flaring after doing the lawn and other stuff outside yesterday…and not sleeping is a part of it too…one good thing is I think taking the day off the bike has helped the pain that I felt everywhere but I’ll be back on it today but in full thermasuit since it snowed here last night and is going to top out around 40 today…I was going to wash all of my winter hats and put them away last week but didn’t get to it and now that looks like a good thing…and it is going to be cold now for the next two weeks so I’m going to be on pause for a while…I did talk to my son yesterday and found that I need to buy a house and be out of here by the first of Feb next year so I need to get my butt in gear and find a house soon…but I want to wait for a while to see where housing prices are going to go with so many people out of work…the predictions are that they should drop by 10% or so and that will help…at least I’ll get a summer here and be able to enjoy my garden and the work I’ve done…and I need to save some cash to have at least 40K for the down payment…but today I’m not going to think about it…or not much anyway….it is  a little bit of  a relief to have a date to be working towards and I’ll ramp up the search here in  a week or so…not much to do today….I did plant some more pepper seeds yesterday since the first ones didn’t come up and I may just plant all of them and then winnow out the ones I don’t need just to ensure I get the head start that I’m getting with the tomatoes….and I need to clean some around here after being lazy yesterday…oh, and cook…have tacos and chicken to make today and then a pizza tomorrow to use everything in the fridge downstairs….I’m not going to go to the grocery store for the next two weeks or more…just don’t want to jump through the new hoops and really should get the freezer emptied…and I can use missing a few meals….more later…

Well…you know, I was going to take the day off and just try to heal my self abused body for a day…it sure needs it but I just couldn’t do it… after getting to 10 am with only doing some work downstairs, I kept looking out at the lawn and the weird growth that had sprouted after the rain so I just had to cut it for the first time to even it out…and that lead to walking around and picking up sticks and part of the tar overlay on the cement driveway that I had shoveled up over the winter…and I am trying to get the 12 coats of paint off the copper downspout with some paint stripper that I put on and am just going to leave it on for a week and see how it works…I could buy new ones for about 60 bucks each and that may be a possibility if they are in too poor of shape when the strip is done…they look like they have been repaired a few times so replacing them may be easier….I did skip the bike ride today with the wind blowing over 20 and a high of 42 degrees…and the soreness, did I mention that? Everything still frickin hurts and it hasn’t been this bad in quite a while…I do feel better about how the front of the house looks but it still needs more work but it doesn’t seem so overwhelming….I can’t wait til I can get the outside projects started but it’s too big of a pain int he ass to try to get any supplies right now with lines waiting to get in and stores limiting everything…I guess I can prep and get ready for when things open up again…

Well…I really do need to take the day off today…everything from the neck down hurts and I think the only way to help that is to rest…I think the double rides every day for the past week may not have been such a good idea…and along with the beating that chopping out stumps did, I can’t even sit here without something hurting…I did get the power washer out yesterday and it took off the loose paint from the gutters but didn’t do anything to the paint that hasn’t started peeling…but, it still looks better so I can just wait out the rest of the paint…it was kind of a weird night last night with starting to fall asleep on the couch at 8 and forcing myself to stay awake until 11…and you would think that I would sleep then when I went to bed…but no, and I am worn out today from it…just noticed that my hands really look beat up from all the work lately and maybe the rest day will help them heal…they are really stiff and have cuts all over them and the blister still hasn’t healed all the way….oh, well….I did get some flower seeds from Meijers yesterday so I can plant them in a few weeks to add a little color to the front of the house…and I took my first shot at getting the shrubs trimmed up but they have been let go so long I’m not sure what I can do other than even them up some and make them look less shaggy…I did talk to discount yesterday and the new tires are being shipped in and should be here in a couple of days…so, I’ll have new ones by next week… and the car really needs them…more later…

Well…yeah, I was right…I hurt everywhere this morning but it’s tolerable so I’m going to wait to take anything for it for a while…and I’ve been up for a time but just couldn’t get my brain started to do this…and it appears to be stuck in 2nd gear right now so who knows how this is going to go? It does feel good to make progress on the outside of the house and that should continue today since it is going to be the last nice day for the rest of the month…going to get the power washer out and try to get some of the paint off the gutters where it is peeling and at least stake out the garden outlines…I’m going to have to try to hide the stumps that I removed in the garbage since they don’t take yard waste but I don’t have anything else to do with them…I don’t think today will be a double ride day since my legs were so flat on the second ride yesterday….it looks like I’ll get to 800 miles by the 16th which is when I got outside last year with 600 miles ridden indoors…but, the weather is going crappy and cold so I’ll be back in thermasuit tomorrow…oh, well….I did get to sit on the front porch and watch some storms last night and that was cool but I need to get my folding rocking camp chair up in the front closet so it will be handy when the next ones come….not much to do today…going to do a grocery run and try to get some cuke seeds and some flower seeds at Meijers along with the few things I need for groceries…after that, I really don’t need to go to the store for a month and I think I’ll do just that….I did thaw too much food for the next week so some of it will go back in the freezer if it’s still frozen…needed to make room to put the rest of the ham in and wanted to change up the diet for a while…more later…

Well…I don’t know how these busy days keep happening…I know I haven’t been planning them but I look up and I’ve been working on something all day…today started out with the idea that it was going to be an easy one with the only thing I was going to do was run an errand this morning to make a little cash and then come back here for a bike ride….but that bike ride turned into two after lunch and I was pretty used up after the second ride so I was going to just take it easy the rest of the day….but that lasted about an hour when I saw that it was 70 outside so I decided to get back at digging and chopping the rest of the stumps out of the front of the house…there were five of them and I figured out that if I sharpen my hatchet in between every one, it goes much easier but it was still a lot of work…and then I got after the ugly ground cover that had infested the entire plot and ripped all that out and by the time I was done I had 2 1/2 hours in working on the area that is 12 feet by 4 feet…even got a little sunburned so I’ll have to remember that the next time I’m out in the yard….I was sore after just doing the bike rides today and throwing all of the chopping, digging, and bending in there, there will be ibuprofen tonight after avoiding it last night…and it’s supposed to be a no cocktail night tonight but damn, don’t I deserve a reward for all that work? We’ll see….don’t have any shows to watch so maybe not….

Well…4:14…that sucks…but to be expected with how things have been going lately….going to be exhausted later today but I don’t think I’ll be doing a double on the bike today…went without ibuprofen last night and I am sore this morning but nothing that is too bad so I can live with it…my earbuds quit working on the bike yesterday and it was the second set of skull candy ones that quit so I ordered a different brand from Amazon yesterday for 15 bucks that got good ratings and look pretty cool but it is going to take 2 weeks to get them with all the traffic through Amazon…and I had to order a new eIectric toothbrush and a spare tube for the bike to get to 25 bucks for free shipping but I needed that stuff anyway and saved about 9 bucks getting them on line….did find the ones that came with my walkman and I can live with those for a couple of weeks….still didn’t hear back from Discount on the new tires but should hear from them today… the old one on the car have hardened up so they are like rocks and I can’t wait to get them replaced….not much to do today…I do need to run an errand this morning and I may have to plant more pepper seeds since none of them have come up yet…all of the tomatoes have come up and they should be pretty big with having to wait a month to put them outside…I might get to starting on the garden plot since it will take some time to get the sod out…but the grass is so bad in the back yard it may not be too much work…more later…oh, one thing I forgot…my daughter was worried about me and ordered a washable face mask for me to use when I go out….was just going to use the dust masks I have here for that but I’ll give this a try….

Well…I really wasn’t planning on having a busy day today but it’s funny how that works out sometimes….have been running since about 7:30 this morning starting with getting the mailbox cleaned up and painted…then I had to wash the bike since it was just so gross and making noise from all of the dirt and sand in it…then out on it for a 15 miler and then as soon as I got back here, I got started on removing the grass and the stump from the other side of the porch…that one came out pretty easily since it didn’t have an 8 inch tap root like the last one but it had a bunch of inch thick spider roots that I had to dig and chop out…and some of them were 3 feet out under the lawn and I had to dig those up so I could reset the block edging…only have 4 more of those to go and I’ll have all of the big stumps out of the shrubs….after that, I washed the car, then I got back on the bike for a second ride and just got back here a few  minutes ago…so, I haven’t had time to even read the news to get a topic for the day…but, I am going to do that right now but I can’t promise that I’ll be back soon…pretty worn out and I need to take a break….

Well…5:18….that’s all I have to say about that….damn, I’m getting bored with not being able to work on my projects around here….and with the weather changing back to crappy Thursday we’re not going to get out of the 40’s until May….maybe that will keep the idiots indoors and leave the trails to me….I had forgotten until last night that it usually takes two days for the abuse I did to my body chopping out the stumps Friday to show up…and it did all of a sudden while I was trying to catch up on some shows last night when the pain in my back and right shoulder flared all at once…and it was a night that I was trying to avoid taking ibuprofen but that went out the window after I couldn’t get comfortable even just sitting here…it seems better this morning but we’ll see after I start abusing it again and get started working on the next stump…going to have to put a band aid and some duct tape on my thumb since the blister hasn’t healed yet and I’ll be using it the same way today…but I need to paint the mailbox first after working on the rust yesterday….and get it put back up before the mail comes later today…but I don’t want to paint downstairs so that will wait until 10 or so when it gets over 40 outside….not much to do today…having a hard time getting started so I’ll need more coffee before I do much of anything….I do have to wash the bike before I ride today since it is filthy and I need to get all the crap out of the chain and idlers…and I probably should wash the car, too but we’ll see how the day goes….more later…