Well…running really late today with not getting out of bed until almost 7 and I am so tired of having to get moving every day…I mean, when do I get a day off? When do I get to just live and sit here without the pressure of getting the miles in? Yeah, I know I’m whining but I’m just frickin exhausted but I know I need 38 miles today…it’s nice that I don’t need to cook today but I do need to plan meals for the next few days and get something out of the freezer…need to get at least one ride in before the F1 sprint race at 10:30 but I really don’t care about anything right now…does that sound like depression? Could be…I just noticed that the being out in the sun yesterday exposed all of the freckles on my arms and it made me think of my mother who had so many of them…it’s the Irish in me and it reminds me of my heritage…I used to have a red beard when I was young….there is rain coming in and I need to get on the bike for a ride right now or I’ll be wet so I need to figure out how to get the miles in…will have to do the indoor bike and it may be a short mile day today…not much to do today…I do have to do laundry since I have bedding that needs cleaning…the radar shows that it is going to rain almost all day and I can’t wait….need to get moving…more later…

Well…had an okay day today with getting the three rides in and going out to the beach…was not warm enough for that with the temp still in the 60’s and a wind out of the north…but the water was warm so I got a swim in and that was good…I finally got a photo of the Kingfisher playing helicopter hunting today and it doesn’t show much but it does show I’m not imagining it…it sucks but I’m losing more of my sense of taste as the days go by…can’t really taste much anymore so now I really do have to shift into fuel mode and force myself to eat…was lightheaded at the beach today an I’m sure it was from not eating enough to support 38 miles a day on the bike…I have been putting electrolytes into the water I drink on the bike and I think that helps a bit but a pork chop, three small red potatoes, and beans and peas from my garden isn’t enough…I’m burning 1,800 calories a day on the bike and only taking in 1,000 or so and that’s just not going to work long term…okay, I’m tired and want to watch some tv…I think I said that last night, too…

Well…man, I’m running slow this morning but I haven’t had coffee yet so that might have something to do with it…slept all the way through the night until around 6 but that was to be expected with getting up at 3am yesterday and having a busy day…but today is going to be one that I can just let flow since I don’t have anything to do but clean a bit…and ride the bike, of course, but I’m not going to rush getting out there today…allergies are terrible this morning and I’m going to have to take something for them to be able to breathe…left the front door open overnight and it’s a bit chilly in here with it only 55 degrees outside…but that’s okay…I did get the chance to clean and lube the bike yesterday and I always like the first ride after I do that…but the temp has dropped to 54 so I’m going to wait a bit to go out…don’t want to have to wear a fleece at the end of June….man, it’s after 7 and I’m still just sitting here and that’s harder than it looks…I do need to do the bedding today but that is the extent of my planning…it is nice to not have anything to do and I need to figure out how to do that more…should I go to the beach today? Only going to be in the 70’s so maybe not…and the road that I take is still blocked by downed trees so maybe not…who knows? More later…

Well…damn, I’m sore today and I wonder if it’s from the 75 miles yesterday? But that would break the two day rule as it would if I hurt from cutting trees…cripes, I wonder if I hurt myself so bad it invalidated the two day rule? Whatever it is, I hurt like crazy and can barely move and that is not going to be a good thing for tomorrow…or tonight for that matter…have been up since 3am and I’m now starting to feel it so it may be an early night tonight…but I don’t want it to be…I missed having tv last night and being able to relax…I did get three rides in today to get to more than 4,600 miles but that means I only have two weeks to get 400 more in to hit the interim goal of 5,000 before my birthday…so that means at least 38 a day for the next two weeks but I am wearing out…I did make a pizza on the grill again this afternoon to use the ingredients before they spoiled but the mushrooms already did so none on this one…and it was okay…I need to use up the leftovers before I make anything else…have potato salad I made a couple of days ago that needs to be used…I was really surprised that the food in the freezer was still frozen hard after a day with no power…but there’s lots of stuff in there so lots of frozen mass…okay, I’m done for the day…want to read for a bit….

Well…it was almost a whole day without power here and it really wasn’t too bad…I still had water and that is the big thing when the power goes off…I have lived in houses with wells and that is the biggest pain when that doesn’t work…and even my water heater worked so I could take a hot shower after the rides and working on the downed trees…the only bad thing is that I’m used to being entertained and the only thing I had to entertain me was reading but that even ended when it got dark….I did enjoy lying on my porch couch and reading and I may do that again today…that is the first time I was able to do that in a year with all of the loudmouths up here…I did have a cocktail and sit in my plastic lawn chair on the front steps last night no mosquitos at all yet and that was cool…pretty darn quiet and I patted myself on the back just a little since I know I’ve had something to do with that…so today gets back to the routine with the grocery runs and three rides in…then pizza for lunch or maybe later since I have a leftover pork chop and beans and peas that need to be used…we’ll see…

Well…as you can see, I didn’t come here for my daily posts yesterday since the power was out all day and just came on this morning at 4:45am…so I’ll need to catch up today…it was a busy day yesterday when I decided to do the “ride my age” day with being pretty bored and having three rides in before 10am…so I finished that up around 4pm for 75.6 miles for the day and I’m not sore from it and that is weird…oh, a giant maple tree fell on the house next door with all of the super high winds we had out here on Monday…looks like a war zone out here with all of the trees that are down and I even had part of the maple tree on my house….but I got my pole saw out and cut the branches off and there is no damage to my house but the house next door has lots of it and I feel bad for them…the air is going to be filled with chainsaw noise for the next week at least but I have my yard all cleaned up…didn’t eat much yesterday with needing to keep the fridge door closed so I’ll make a pizza on the grill and eat a lot today to make up for all the miles yesterday…going to get on the bike before 7 to get the first ride in before the grocery run…need to stop at menards to get more weed killer and I may pick up some chicken thighs since I now have a working fridge…damn, I missed having ice water yesterday…more later…

Well…damn, just sat down after getting a lot accomplished this morning…38 miles on the bike to start and had those done by a little after 10…then changed clothes and mowed the lawn…the little rain we’ve had out here has greened it up some and not mowing for almost two weeks left it quite long…and it was still wet from the showers last night and the dew from the humidity…much warmer out here today but still tolerable…after mowing, I decided to weed the garden since I still had sunscreen on from the bike rides and figured I’d get all of the outdoor work done before I had lunch…man, that was really needed and now I can tell what I’m growing again…I did plant another 20 pea seeds since I want to have peas for later in the summer and I had space where the leeks didn’t come up…so now it’s almost two pm and I am done for the day but doing the weight work and grilling some marinated pork chops with roasted red potatoes and steamed beans and peas…yummy…

Well…damn, this is going to be a busy day that I need to get started in less than 20 minutes with the first bike ride…then two more, mowing the lawn and weeding the garden…and I still hurt almost everywhere and I wonder if the pain is permanent from getting old? I did get 38 miles in yesterday but not much else done and that’s why I need to do so much today…I did get weed killer on the lawn and need to buy more at menards this week…the new sprayer I bought a couple of months ago is pretty nice and allows me to spot spray without mixing the killer with water…the rain we got over the past few days has greened up the lawn some and it’s supposed to rain again tonight and tomorrow so maybe the lawn will live for a while at least…I do need to plant another batch of peas and broccoli today…something is eating the leaves on my broccoli so I hit it with some bug/fungus killer yesterday and hope to salvage it…have peppers and tomatoes that have set but the cukes are flowering but don’t have any little ones on the vines yet…just like last year and can’t figure it out…have lots to do today…and I need to grill the pork chops I marinated yesterday and cook some of the peas and beans I picked yesterday…probably should get going….more later…

Well…this is better…the high temp today is going to be a little over 70 with much less humidity that the hot streak we had last week…got a few things done today that needed it…had lots of small branches down from the storms overnight and there was a big one down on the trail next to the road…had to be 18 inches in diameter and blocked off the whole trail leaving everyone to have to go into the road…tomorrow I’m going to weed the garden while I have an open yard waste bag that I only half filled with branches and put in another row of peas so I’ll have some for later in the summer…and I put weedkiller on the lawn since the weeds are the only thing growing…the new grass in the spot where they removed the tree has either died or gone dormant so I’ll need to work on that tomorrow, too…it’s 1:30pm and I’m done for the day other than making potato salad and getting the pork chops in the teriyaki marinade to grill tomorrow…and there are races on the rest of the day for background noise…so, I’m going to relax the rest of the afternoon…