Well…I usually like to take an easy day on Thursday but jit didn’t work out that way today…I hustled to get on the bike for three rides a little after 7am that I finished up before 10:30…then I got laundry started and washed the couch cover and some bed linens…then took the couch apart, cleaned it, and rotated the cushions and just now put it back together…but before that, I made some pasta/tuna salad that came out great and will be in the rotation for now on…really easy to make and made a lot of it with a 1 pound box of pasta…not sure if I’m going to grill the chicken today or just put it in the air fryer…probably that since I don’t feel like grilling…still have a load of laundry in the dryer and need to do the weight work before that is done…still isn’t raining and it looks like it isn’t going to…crap…oh, well…need to get the weights out and get moving…

Well…up at 4:34 and then out of bed at 6:05 and I need to get moving at first light to get two rides in before the rain that should be here by 11…this time it really looks like it’s going to rain but I’ll believe it when I see it…allergies are terrible this morning and it’s going to be a lousy day with my head plugged up…sore everywhere after swimming and using new muscles yesterday… and it looks like I’ll have to treat the pain for the rides today…I may even try an ibuprofen to see if I can avoid the pain in the left side of my neck…didn’t get much done yesterday other than the rides but I do need to do laundry and clean the couch today along with vacuuming…I do have chicken legs and thighs that need to be grilled so I’ll do that when it’s raining this aft but I’m not sure what to have with the chicken…have a few small tomatoes and some baked beans that I could have…I wonder if I should make a pasta salad? Haven’t made one in quite a while and that sounds good…not much to do today…just need to get coffee down and get the rides in…will probably have to do two loads of laundry with having a set of sheets to be done along with some towels and the couch cover…more later…

Well…yeah, I know I’m late for my political one for the day but I went to the beach to get a swim in and I did get burned with being out there the normal amount of time and the only sunscreen was what I put on for the rides that started at 9:30…oh, well…it’s not too bad so I can live with it…there was no way I was going to go the rest of the summer without swimming…and it’s 84 out here and it’s going to rain tomorrow through Sat so it had to be today…I did get 3-2lb packages of ham at DD today for 2.49 each so that should be enough for a while…2 will go in the freezer and I think I’ll make a hot ham and Swiss for dinner and finish off the potato salad…..okay…I need to go read some news to get a topic idea…more later…

Well…man, I’m worn out this morning with getting up at 5:30 and not sleeping well at all…need to get on the indoor bike here in 15 minutes to get the first ride in before I do the grocery run…thinking about mowing the lawn today but that won’t be til the afternoon…damn, my brain is not working today…it looks like we’re getting some rain tomorrow and Friday but I’m not holding my breath for it…it’s going to be in the 80’s today but then falling into the 70’s for a week or so…not really August weather in Michigan…I remember it being hot when I was younger…it’s only 57 right now but I am going to put the top down on the car for the grocery run…trying to choke the coffee down to get my brain jumpstarted before I get on the bike but it’s more work than it looks…I do have lots of work to do around here today with laundry and cleaning the couch and then we’ll see about doing more…okay, I need to get going…more later….

Well…after a terrible first ride, I got the other two in and then didn’t do much the rest of the day but make some soup…and I kind of needed that…have just been feeling really worn out and that didn’t go away until about 8 miles into the first ride…it may have been the toast and peanut butter I had before I went out that did it so I really do need to eat more…but I didn’t today with just a dog and potato salad for lunch and the a bowl of soup for dinner…I don’t know what damage always living on the knife edge of under eating does but I do know it doesn’t feel right…oh, well…I do need to do the grocery run tomorrow and I’ll probably mow the lawn since it’s supposed to rain for three days in a row starting Thurs and it will be too long if I wait until Sun…I am going to stop at DD tomorrow since they have brown sugar ham on sale for 1.25 a pound and I have room in the freezer…may get three packages for 6 pounds and that will last me quite a while…and aldis has chicken legs for 89 cents a pound so I may get some of those, too…okay, want to go back to reading….

Well…isn’t August in Michigan supposed to be hot and sticky with windows open? I guess not with it 59 degrees out here right now and only one more day of 80’s then down in the 70’s for the rest of the month…August is supposed to be hottest month but I’ve had this place closed up for a couple of days now…strange…going to get on the bike as soon as it gets light here and I should make some toast to eat before I go…was dizzy on the bike yesterday and I know it’s from not eating enough but I can’t taste anything so it’s hard to eat…maybe some pasta today? Don’t have a lot to do today but I should clean some and get the recipes out to see what I can make from the canned goods I have here…the little weather widget says “very humid” and that is normal for August in Michigan but not 58 degrees…I’ll stop talking about the weather now….okay…I need to get going…more later…

Well…it really is a good thing that the Olympics are over…two weeks of getting nothing done ended as the sports ended and I got the back door frame scraped and painted today…I did get a little scorched even though I put the 100 sunscreen on before I started…but that is now done and just in time with the EPL starting up Friday with Man U playing Fulham and that will take up a lot of time… as I watch as many of the matches that I can…I really hope they play better this year…haven’t really kept up on the changes that happened in the transfer window and I really hope they’ve added some players that can score…I am going to take it a little easier since I’m almost up to 6,300 miles on the bike that leaves only 800 left to go for the goal…was really dizzy on the bike on the third ride and I know it’s from not eating enough but it’s harder than it looks to get over 1,000 calories a day…oh, well…have been cleaning out the freezer so I have room to buy some 89 cents a pound chicken legs at Aldis to grill…have been thinking about a porterhouse steak but damn, 15-20 dollars for one steak? Nope, just can’t do it…I have some burger in the freezer that I can take out I guess…oh, well…

Well…damn, my knees hurt this morning and I wonder if it’s from riding too much? My elbows and back hurt, too, so I’m not sure what’s going on…slept okay last night and was only up once about 3am and didn’t get out of bed until a little after 6 and that has become pretty normal…I did take one idler sprocket off the bike to clean it yesterday but the other one has a stripped head so I couldn’t take it our so I guess I’ll just have to endure the vibration through the pedals…I did get three rides in yesterday but I may just do two today to give myself a little rest…I am going to work on the back door frame today and may even get it painted since it’s not going to rain until Thurs….my son fixed the streaming service he runs yesterday and it works better than ever so that is cool…and just in time since the EPL starts this weekend and I need to watch Man U play…still pretty cool out there at 60 degrees but it’s getting toward the more normal 80’s this afternoon…this has been a cool August when it normally gets into the 90’s at least once…not much to do today…I am going to take the rest of the garden out since the broccoli never flowered and has stopped growing…a wasted year…oh, well…more later…

Well…when I got back from the third ride today I heard a plane buzzing around overhead, looked up and saw it was a skywriter advertising for the airshow that is going on this week out here…he actually did write “airshow” and he followed it up with a heart and smiley faces…looked like he was practicing for the show later in the week…can’t remember the last time I saw that…and then a C-47 flew over pretty low…there is nothing that sounds like an air cooled radial engine and I hope to get a photo of it this week…didn’t do a damn thing but the bike rides and weight work today so I’ll have to get off my butt tomorrow and get the back door frame ready to paint…think I’ll only do two rides to manage my sun exposure and give my body a small rest…my whole body was flat this morning and the rides were too much damn work…

Well…damn, it’s only 56 out here right now and I was freezing overnight….had to put the wool blanket on the bed to sleep last night and that is strange for August in Michigan…I really thought the heat was going to come on…it never got warm enough out here to open the house up yesterday and it may be the same today…I think I hit a solid wall and I really don’t want to get on the bike today…it’s already 7:15 and I should be out there…maybe I’ll feel different after the coffee starts to work….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I really don’t feel like I’ll get anything done today, either, it’s hard work just to sit here so the prospect of working on anything is not attractive….they have started to fly the vintage planes in for the event at the airport out here and it is pretty cool to hear the radial engines when they fly over…saw a c-47 coming in and I hope they will do some flyovers so I can see more of them…I guess I could go to the airport and see them but I don’t feel like doing any events anymore…not much to do today…I do need to make potato soup but that just seems like too much effort right now…more later…