Well…damn, spent a hundred bucks today and bought way too much food that was on sale…got some ground chuck on sale at Meijers for 1.97 a pound and 6.5 pounds of boneless/skinless chicken thighs for 9 bucks at DD…1.37 a pound and that is about half what they normally cost…some smoked turkey for 3 bucks for 4- 9 oz. packages…oh, some chicken legs for 99cents a pound again from Meijers…so I filled the freezer again and still need to make room for half the burger and half the chicken legs…man, I’m going to be grilling a lot….and I got 3 12 oz packages of hard Italian salami with no nitrites or preservatives for 5 bucks…so I have lots of food…will make it easier to eat enough with the variety I have now…and I bought lawn food at Menards and stumbled on some bootie socks for 4 bucks for 6 pairs that I really like…so much that I went back over there and bought two more packs so now I have 18 pair and I can finally get rid of the stretched out and holey ones I’ve had for 5+ years…these new ones are even stylish and stay on my feet when the other ones wouldn’t anymore…it’s really weird how just a little thing like finding some cheap, nice socks can make me happy…and I only have a little over a hundred miles to ride to hit 5K before my birthday…and I’ve ridden every day this year…185 days in a row and that makes half a year plus…got a lot done today but it’s 20 to three and I am done for the day….

Well…damn, I’m tired of having to get going every morning…and that’s the case today…have 14 minutes until I need to get on the indoor bike for the first ride before the grocery run and I have 5 stops to make today…not as sore as I was expecting to be this morning after the pain I had last night but I’ll take it…it did rain a bit yesterday and it’s supposed to rain again today but not a lot…I should be able to get outdoors on the bike when I get back and I do have outdoor work to do today…going to run the string trimmer and try to paint the downspout but I may have to wait til tomorrow for it to dry…have to hit DD and HF today along with menards,aldis, and meijers and that is going to be a chore but I do need to finish up feeding the lawn today or it will look pretty strange…so I can get going a little after 8…I did ride over and paid the water bill yesterday and I need to go to the library Friday to get more books…I really hope none of the assholes will be blasting fireworks tomorrow…that just gets so old…not going to go down to the fireworks since I’m over that…not much to do today…just want to survive the grocery runs and get to the afternoon so I can take a break….more later…

Well…with the rain today, I didn’t get the outdoor work done I had planned to do…I did get food on most of the lawn before it rained but need to pick up some more at menards tomorrow to finish up the small part I couldn’t do…I do not understand it, but I am sore everywhere and I guess it must be from dragging the ladder around and climbing it a bunch of times yesterday…so, if the two day rule works, it is going to hurt even worse tomorrow…it is going to rain starting at about 1am tomorrow morning and keep up til around 8 so I may do an indoor ride to get the day started before the grocery run…Meijers has corn on sale for 8 ears for a buck so I’m going to get some of those along with some chicken legs to grill later in the week and have some baked beans instead of potatoes since they are so damn expensive…I do have the ingredients for an omelet so I’ll make one of those in the next couple of days…only have about 150 miles to 5,000 so I’ll get there easily before my birthday…then the long slog for 2,100 more miles…this has been a lot of work and I hope I’m not doing permanent damage to my body…

Well…I am so tired of being sore…woke up this morning and every damn part of my body hurts…and I’m having such a hard time getting moving that it’s almost too much effort…rain is coming in but I am going to put my rain gear on and ride outdoors since the radar never matches reality out here…need to be on the bike by 7:30 and that gives me 25 minutes to pour coffee down me and become human…the weird thing is that I think I slept okay but it’s not having any effect…feel pretty lousy with coughing and my head is plugged up…just the damn allergies that nothing works on…oh, well…got a lot done yesterday but I can’t do two days of that in a row…but I do have trimming and painting to do today but can’t imagine doing that right now…I did make some peanut butter toast a few minutes ago since I didn’t eat enough yesterday and need more calories to support what I do every day…think I’m going to need an ibuprofen this morning…just a pool of pain and my right elbow hurts just picking up the coffee cup…darn…more later…

Well…man, what a busy day today…but I did accomplish a lot so that makes it okay…didn’t get on the bike for the first ride until almost 9 this morning since I had to wait for the temp to come up from the low of 46 last night…was not going to put on a fleece in July…got the second ride in right after the 1st and then got cleaned up and made a run out to depot…then back here and got on the bike for ride three…only have about 190 miles to go to get to the 5K goal by my birthday…after the 3rd ride, I got started on fixing the downspout but the part I bought to do that was too short so I thought I’d peel all of the duct tape off the old part to find that the only thing wrong with it was that it didn’t fit tight enough…so, I drilled a hole and put a pop rivet in to hold it together…worked like a champ so it’s really sturdy now…before I put the downspout back up, I cleaned the siding under it and all of it that faces my front steps…looks pretty good with it clean and that stupid duct tape gone…I do have to paint the parts tomorrow if it doesn’t rain since a lot of the paint is off it and it looks a little shabby…after I got that done, I mowed the lawn and trimmed some bushes so I could fill the bag that needed to go out tomorrow…so, yep…it was a pretty busy day today and I didn’t get finished until after 3pm…tomorrow should be easier but I do want to run the string trimmer to finish up the yard along with spotting some weeds…the work never stops…

Well…it’s only 46 degrees out here right now and I wonder if the heat is going to come on before it starts to warm up? Didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 but I don’t feel like I slept much overnight…it is going to start to warm up pretty quickly and should be warm enough to get out on the bike by 8am when it is supposed to be 57…hurt like crazy last night but I just feel fatigue right now…all of the miles have started to wear me out at my advanced age but I’m sure I’ll make it to the goal for the year…there is no wind out here today and that will be a welcome sight after coming back into a 25 mph blow yesterday…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I really do need to clean the bathroom today…I did eat almost twice what I normally eat yesterday and I wonder what the effect of that will be on the bike today…I know I haven’t been eating enough to support 38 miles a day on the bike but I don’t want to gain any weight either…going to have a second cup of coffee and watch the tour for a bit before I suit up and get on the bike…more later..

Well…running about on time with getting out of bed around 6 today and I think I slept okay…but still feel pretty worn out and I hope the coffee starts to work soon…it’s only in the 50’s out there right now and I need to get on the bike by 7 or so so I can watch the F1 race at 9…I’m a little concerned that I’m wearing my body out with all the miles I’m putting in…so darn sore all the time and it’s new places that hurt..and I slathered biofreeze on everything last night just to be able to sit here and not wince every time I move…I really thought I ate enough yesterday but then I did the math and my big meal of a chicken thigh, a couple of small red potatoes and some beans and peas from the garden only added up to about 500 calories so I was under 1,000 for the day again…I wonder why it’s so hard to eat enough? I know I’ve been complaining about that for years now and I’m bored with it as I’m sure you are…not much to do today…don’t have to cook with the chicken and brats I grilled yesterday and I wonder if I should only do two rides today to give myself a break? I know I could use it and it is really hard to get moving right now….more later…

Well…with how bad I felt yesterday, I was really concerned that it was going to continue today…but, I felt good on the bike and got my 38 miles in before 11am and I still feel pretty good now after having lunch…it might have helped that I ate a Kind bar and put an electrolyte tablet in my final bottle of water…I did eat a little extra yesterday so that helped, too…and I’m going to grill some chicken thighs and brats to have food for a couple of days after the soccer match that is on…have to change a light bulb on the side of the garage since it burned out this morning…going to start using the CFL’s that I took out of the fixtures in here since I have a box full of them downstairs…it was pretty crowded on the trail with the Seaway run this morning and thousands of runners taking part…so the second ride was mostly done on the road but that didn’t bother me in the least…it’s nice that they do events here and the art fair is on today and tomorrow so I may ride down there tomorrow…

Well…running a little late this morning with not getting out of bed til after 6 and I feel just worn out and it is going to be a struggle to get moving today…the rain that was supposed to be 100% today has now been reduced to 4% so no relief for the lawn and that sucks…and I think I’m giving up on the garden…it’s all dying and I’m tired of worrying about it…don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I’ve never had trouble with it until I moved out here…oh, well…not sure what I’m going to cook today but I do need to cook something…took some brats and chicken thighs out of the freezer but I’m not sure if they will be thawed to grill today…okay, the brats are but I just took the chicken out of the fridge to sit on the table for a bit so I can cook them both…need to marinate the chicken with teriyaki sauce to see how that tastes…there is a running race on this morning so the trails will be crowded this morning and and art show downtown today but I’m not sure if I’m going to walk down there…we are going to have a record low of 50 tomorrow night and the heat will come on…in June, in Michigan….weird…not much to do today…I should do three rides outdoors today but I don’t think I have the energy for it…I guess we’ll see after I get out for the first ride here in 20 minutes…more later…

Well…it’s been a pretty crappy day today with not feeling well at all and the rain still stayed away…again…while it has been raining all day just a little south of here…and I had a flat on the bike where the valve stem just blew out of the tube…luckily, I had two new tubes in the cabinet and now I’ll have patching material to repair the other 4 that are downstairs…not sure why I feel so lousy but I know part of it is my allergies being so bad and I guess the other part is still not eating enough and I know that not being able to taste anything has something to do with that…and eating spoiled food since I couldn’t tell that the potato salad had gone bad and ate some of it…it did have an off smell to it but I only made it Sunday and it shouldn’t have gone bad that soon…I still did 33 miles on the bike today but felt bad doing it…probably should have taken it easy today…oh, well…there’s always tomorrow….