Well…things are getting pretty dire around here when I’m three weeks past the time to get a haircut and all of the places I use are closed to stop the virus spread…so, I decided to do my own hair this morning using my beard trimmer since it was annoying the hell out of me…just finished it and it doesn’t look too bad…it’s the same way I have it cut when I go out for a haircut…a number 3 clipper over the whole thing with a number 2 on top….I think if my clippers weren’t 20 years old it would have looked a little smoother and I have to figure out how to trim over the ears and around the back but I have lots of time on my hands so I think I can….after all, it’s just hair and it will grow back…but I just bought myself another month so that’s cool….and I saved 13 bucks….woo hoo…

Well…up at 5:24 this morning and that pretty much puts things back to normal after the late morning yesterday…and yep, I have some kind of bug….woke up kind of sweaty this morning and have been coughing up lots of stuff and I don’t think that is all caused by allergies….but, I don’t feel too bad so I will be back on the bike this morning to get the miles in and may even be up to doubles starting thurs with a little warmer temps coming in…I am almost to 700 miles for the year and that puts me ahead of where I was last year at this time…but getting to 5K is still pretty daunting….haven’t been too motivated lately and I’m not sure why that would be….I know I haven’t been feeling too hot but that’s normally not the problem….maybe it’s that there is so much to do outside and the weather hasn’t been cooperating…and I know that the abuse my hands are going to get is going to be quite painful when I start chopping out the stumps in the front of the house….I know that all I need to do is just get started and take it piece by piece but I need paint and other supplies that I can’t get right now…not much to do today….I am going to ease into the day until I get on the bike around 10 or so and that will still be in full thermasuit for the next couple of days….I really should clean but I’m still not too motivated…more later….

Well…okay, have had really bad allergies for months now but this feels different…I have started to feel warm this afternoon and just weird…still coughing but that has been going on for months so that’s not a new one…I’m not sure if I’m eating enough and that always makes me feel warm the following day…I mean I had two eggs, two pieces of bacon and two slices of toast along with two pieces of pizza yesterday…and I figure that is over 1500 calories and that should be enough…although the day before that I only had half a chicken breast and couple of bowls of soup…and so far today I’ve had half a chicken breast and a handful of fries and that is only about 400 calories so I could be behind for today…and I am trying my hand at baking bread right now I am so bored…so I’ll have a couple of slices of that in a few minutes….all I know is this feels different than normal…like I have a bad cold coming on…do colds still exist? No one is talking about that right now…crap, I don’t need this right now…or ever…I guess I’ll keep you posted if this gets worse….

Well…running really late this morning with a miracle happening and not getting out of bed until 7:18….I did wake up at 3:30 but was able to roll over and go back to sleep for the first time in what seems like a year…don’t think that helped in feeling better though, since I still feel worn out and crappy and just can’t get started…I wonder if you can get too much sleep? If this is going be what my allergies are going to be like this spring, I’m going to be miserable and I’m not sure how long I can take it…have felt like crap for months now and it is getting to be a bit much…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday in shorts but it looks like I’ll be back to full thermasuit for a couple of days…but I just looked at the weather and some 60 degree days are coming…it’s about damn time to be able to get out in a t-shirt and get started on the lawn and outside of the house….need to get the hatchet sharpened so I can try to get the stumps out of the front of the house and get ready to plant flowers…not sure if I’ll be able to get flowers this year and I won’t be here next year so maybe I’ll just fill the spaces in with dirt….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to try to do something today…not sure what but something…cleaning? Man, it’s weird to be on my first cup of coffee and it’s after 8….and I think it’s going to put me behind for the whole day…behind for what I don’t know but behind….more later….

Well…cripes…let’s add something else to worry about with the damn virus going around…have felt pretty crappy all day today and when that happens these days, the first thing you think of is that damn virus…but, I’m sure it’s not that but my allergies going into overdrive…some of which is my fault but some of it is that trees have started to bloom along the trail along with weeds and grass….I know a big part of it is the downstairs project that is going quite well but doing that makes my allergies much worse….but, I am nearing the goal that I set when I started the project so I may be able to shut it down when I get through a few more months….it would be so damn nice to not have the stuffed up head, itchy eyes, and coughing that has been with me since I moved in here….and none of those are coronavirus symptoms so I guess I’ll live another day…and I know the soreness I feel is from being an idiot on the bike the past few days…hey, I just noticed something…I think this is going to be the most posts I have done in a month since I have been doing this! I’ll have to go back and check but I’m over 80 and I still have two days to go…maybe 90 for the month? That would be cool…crap, just checked and in February of 2017 I did 105 of these so no new record…but 90 would still be cool…

Well….when I was out filling the feeders yesterday, I noticed that there must be 20 pounds of seed under the feeders on the ground where the birds have thrown it while digging through to get their preferred stuff…so today, I decided to not fill the feeders and let them just eat through the stuff on the ground for a change…and those little shits were perched on the empty sill looking in the window with some of them even pecking at it…but, nope…no food for a couple of days until they at least try to eat some of leftovers…I wonder what the hell they ate before I started filling the feeders in November? They sure weren’t dying from hunger there are so many of them….and not one of them has said thanks…that’s the least they could do….

Well….yep…it’s the switch…again…and this one only lasted about 6 months and that sucks…but, they’re only 5 bucks so I guess I don’t need to bitch too much…and I can just remove the positive battery cable for now so no big deal…after I got that figured out, the morning got better with getting out on the bike in shorts about 8:15 and getting a hard ride in…even saw my first bald eagle of the year today and that was pretty cool…and the wind waited to start blowing hard until I made the turn to come back here so I had it at my back most of the return trip and was really flying on the trail…too damn many people out today, though, and some of them were being idiots…I mean running in a group of 10 people 2 feet apart? If any of them are infected, they all will be soon….not sure what I’m going to make for lunch today….I have some bacon the needs to be used and eggs to go with that…but I have soup, chicken, and pizza that needs to be used, too….hmmm….at least I won’t need to go out for anything this week but I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not….I should take the car out and charge the battery up and I may do that tomorrow…want to make a run to HF to get my new compressor for 40 bucks so I can air the tires up on the bike….more later…

Well…damn…the battery was dead in the car when I tried to go out to get the paper today and my battery box was dead, too….not sure if it will hold a charge enough to get it started a little later but I put the trickle charger on the battery and I don’t think that is going to help…so I had to ride the bike out to get the paper this morning and I’m glad it is over 50 out there right now…had some problems with the cut off switch falling apart the other day and must not have gotten it put back together right…so, I’m not sure what I’m going to do if the box won’t start it later…can’t ask the neighbors for a jump with this whole virus thing going on…crap, crap, crap….I can get a 50 amp charger at HF for about 30 bucks if I can get it started that will start the car and that would replace the battery box since I have electricity in the garage…..okay….just can’t do this right now…need to try to get the car started….okay, that was weird…hooked the battery box up to the car and it started right up after only a half hour of charging….and I checked out the switch and it seems to be working so I’m going to put it back in after I let the car run for a half hour or so…man, that takes a load off but I still may get a good charger just in case…after all, I’m going to get 1200 bucks in the next few weeks and any house I buy will have electricity in the garage so I won’t need the portability of the battery box any more….so, what else is going on? Okay…I think I may just stop here and get a bike ride in before the wind comes up….more later….

Well…made it all the way through to coffee time this morning but I don’t feel like I slept at all…and I’m coughing again and I don’t have any hope that it will get better until I can air this place out…and that looks like it’s not going to happen for a few weeks yet…we did have some storms last night that did wake me up but I don’t mind that at all…it’s not snow and it could be with this being spring in Michigan…and it looks like I may have to take the day off the bike since it’s supposed to rain all day…darn…I can use a day to let the pain in my left thigh to subside some…I think I may have torn something in it with going hard on the bike the past week or so since the pain is localized to a strip about 4 by 8 inches down the front that is tender…and that is weird…did get some good news that the 1200 bucks that they are sending out to everyone is now going to include SS recipients so I should see the cash in my account in about 3 weeks or so…and I can use it…have 4 things I’m going to buy to do my part to get the economy going again…new tires for the car, pay for the new bike, a gas grill, and a new weight machine…and I’ll still have about 300 bucks left over….and I’ll get my latest SS deposit about the same time so that will be 3200 bucks into my account in one week….I know I’m not supposed to eat grilled food since it causes cancer but I haven’t had a grill for three years now so I think I’ve got some life in the bank on that…and there is nothing like a rare steak on the grill…or burgers, or chicken, or ribs…you get the idea….not much to do today…I am going to clean the oven with what little cleaner I have here but that will only do the bottom and the door…I should put the cleaner on now…and I think I will….more later…

Well…look, I have been writing about all of the bad stuff going on in this country and it is starting to overload my brain to the point that I can’t decide what to talk about…so, I’m going to talk about some good stuff to try to let my brain rest for a while…I was sitting here yesterday and got a huge surprise when a large bird landed on my window sill outside where I put some bird food for the sparrows to eat…compared to the sparrows, doves are just frickin huge birds and where I normally only see the sparrows heads, I could see most of the dove’s body…but one thing they both do is look in the window and I wonder if they are trying to figure out what the heck the indoors is…the sparrows have even started to use the feeder stuck to the window…had four of them on it at one time yesterday and the mosh pit moved over to it from the hanging feeder….I did get my veggie seeds planted this morning but I decided to not start the sunflowers indoors…after all, they are just ornamentals and I really don’t need to speed them up at all…they should get to 10-15 feet even waiting to after the last frost and who cares if that is a few weeks earlier? The seeds for the tomatoes are tiny little things and it was kind of hard to handle them one at a time…but I am wondering if I should have planted 2 or 3 seeds in each hole just to make sure they come up…but, I did do 4 seeds of each type so I should get at least one of them to come up and that is really all I need to get a head start….this is kind of funny…the hanging feeder is empty so now there is a que of sparrows waiting to get on the one on the window…probably should go out and fill it before I get on the bike…I think that when I get through the two bags of seed I have I’m going to take the feeders down…after all, I have given them over a hundred pounds of seed since I started filling the feeders in November and those two bags will make it 140…I mean, how much food can sparrows eat? A lot I guess….more later….