Well…that was a mistake…didn’t take any painkillers or allergy meds last night and I am miserable this morning…coughing with a stuffed up head and every damn thing hurts…maybe I shouldn’t put this old body through that much torture….I did sleep okay last night but my energy level has crashed too and I can barely do this right now….just want to lie down and stop thinking but I won’t…I did get a few things done yesterday…got a new lightweight hose from Aldi’s for 19 bucks and it is cool that I can now reach the entire lot here and with getting my new compressor a couple of days ago, I have everything I need for this house and the next one…but I do need to get out to depot to get my tomato cages and some lawn food in the next week or so but I’m not in any hurry for that with the cold that is coming…I mean 46 for a high in Michigan in May? Damn…when Is spring going to come? I really wish that it would rain so I could take a day off the bike…it has become a chore but I think that’s the double rides every day…and having to put the thermasuit on to ride….my thighs are screaming at me just sitting here so maybe I cut back to one today….damn, my brain is only working a little this morning so maybe I’ll cut this one short…not much to do today…need to do a grocery run to get some stuff that I need to make pizza this weekend and I want to get a ham before they’re not available any more…that will get me through for a couple of weeks if I break it down….more later…
Monthly Archives: May 2020
trump’s goalposts are mounted on a Lamborghini…
Well…hey, idiot boy, didn’t you say that there were only going to be 15 cases of the virus and that “it will be gone soon”…then didn’t you say that there would be 30,000 dead and that meant you had done a”terrific job” of dealing with the virus? Now, I wonder where those goalposts are? Yeah, mounted on the back of Lamborghini that you are driving at full speed trying to keep up with the results of your bungling of the response…now where are they? Halfway to Cleveland as you announced that there was going to be at least 100,000 deaths but then your “secret assessment” that includes the effects of “reopening” the country predicts this stupid move is going to cost the country 3,000 deaths a day…and, let’s do the math….3,000 times 30 is 90,000 deaths in just one month…and as more and more people are exposed that could rise to more than a million a month….and that means the goalposts are now in the middle of the Pacific ocean mounted on a 4 engine ocean speedboat moving at 150 mph. And he still takes “no responsibility” when all of the experts say that if he had actually done anything in January and February, 90% of the deaths would have been prevented….I guess this is one thing that the idiot trump will be the “best” at…killing Americans with millions of deaths on his hands…more than the Civil War, more than every other war combined….I wonder where the goalposts will be next week…the moon? Space X has probably been contacted by idiot boy to use a Falcon 9 for that move….and trump tweets as Americans die….
May 5th
Well….that wasn’t too bad…didn’t get up til 6 after going to bed a little early and I was good last night so I think that helped, too….but, I’m still damn sore from all of the riding and working outside and I may have to take a day off to rest everything and start the healing…I am old after all and I don’t know how long I can keep up the pace…but, if I don’t keep up the pace I know I’ll lose my ability to and I just can’t stand that thought….so maybe this is what everyone goes through when they over extend themselves….at least that’s what I’m going to tell myself until the facts say otherwise…it looks like the weather is going to go cold again for the next week at least so I’ll have to cover the tomatoes I planted yesterday if they are going to survive…it’s frickin May and the heat is still on…there has been no spring around here and I still haven’t smelled the spring smell that usually comes in April….so, we hunker down for both the virus and the weather and that is a little depressing….but I am getting my 1200 bucks on the 8th so I guess that’s something….I do need to make a run out to Aldi’s this morning to try to get some chicken and they have a 50ft expanding hose on sale for 20 bucks and I need one of those to reach the rest of the lot here…and I really like the one I have since it is so light to drag around as I try to repair the bare spots in the front lawn and clean up everything else…it is so cool to have the luxury of water to work with around here…not much to do today….just the run to Aldi’s and then maybe only one ride today…I do have some cleaning to do today but I think I’ll start on the garage trim so I can paint it later in the week instead…more later….
We have an eaglet…
Well…during the ride today, I decided to go down the unpaved trail that leads nearer to the eagles nest and when I was watching the male, a tiny little eaglet head popped up and started waving around and it looked like the male was feeding it…pretty cool…and I can’t wait to see it get bigger and bigger over the summer until it fledges. I did get out to HF today and got my new compressor and it is a pretty cool unit for only 39 bucks…of, course the first thing I used it for was to air up the tires on the bike and it was pretty neat that it only took a second of air to get them from 35 to 60 psi….and I bought a kit of all the air tools and fittings that I needed to get started for 11 bucks…and it even came with a 25 foot curly hose that is just damn convenient…oh, and one last thing…my 1200 buck payment is supposed to be in my account on the 8th so I can afford to get out and get the rest of the garden supplies…I planted some tomatoes outside today since they had fallen over downstairs and I was going to start 4 more from seeds so I’m not losing anything by planting them even if they die….but I am going to wait to plant the rest of them until we get past this cold spell….probably next week…
50 years ago today…
Well….May 4th 1970….four dead in Ohio…four students killed at Kent State University for exercising their first amendment rights to protest the actions of their government…this one hurts every year…as a 16 year old kid staring down the very real possibility of going to Vietnam to die for whatever reasons, these murders shattered what was left of the innocence and pride that I felt to be an American…I mean, how can the government send soldiers to kill students who did nothing but assemble and protest? Until that point I believed that the government of the US operated in good faith but that naivete was only the safety blanket that had insulated a 16 year old who only thought of 16 year old things til that day….but the thought of kids who were just a little older than I was being killed just because they pissed off Nixon and the others who were running the government really shocked me and took away the safety that I felt…I still feel that day even 50 years later…and seeing the archival footage shows me how we haven’t progressed as a nation at all in that 50 years…and I still think Neil’s song says it best…just substitute trump for Nixon….”tin soldiers and Nixon comin, we’re finally on our own…” RIP…..Allison, Sandra, Jeffrey, and William…
May 4th
Well…this is weird…it’s only 37 degrees outside and it’s 68 in here and the heat hasn’t come on all night…I wonder if it’s because this brick house stored heat over the past couple of days with it being almost 70? I’m sitting here in shorts and that is the first time I’ve been able to do that since I moved in here….hmmm….I did make it all the way to 5:29 this morning and don’t feel too bad today so I’ll take it….and I think I’m going to ease into this morning and might just only ride once today since my legs are sore and heavy and I really felt it on the second ride yesterday…I do need to make the run over to HF this morning to get the new air compressor before the coupon expires so I think I’ll use that to fill the time while it’s too cold to ride….still haven’t put shorts on yet this year and I think it’s probably the latest I’ve ever waited…I normally switch in April but for some reason the cold is getting to me this year and I just want to be warm….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I’m not sure what I’m going to get done today…probably should start on prepping the trim on the garage to paint and work on the trim on the front of the house, too….I am going to get a 120 flap disc at HF to work on the front door, too since the paint is so hard my sander won’t cut it…and that paint will finish off the front of the house….geez….my allergies are bad today…my head is plugged up and I am miserable….and I need more coffee….more later….
This is what I’ve been waiting to hear…
Well…back to politics! Bet you didn’t think I’d do another one of these after slacking off for quite a while…but there were other things going on that took my attention and I didn’t feel too motivated. But not today! Just today, Joe Biden and Liz Warren published and op-ed that is saying what I’ve wanted the dems to say for a long time, that no matter how much trump an his cronies try to hide their criminality in everything they’ve done, they better not get too comfortable with what they’ve stolen….once Biden is elected every damn thing that trump has tried to hide is going to get the nice clean disinfectant of transparency and all of the theft, graft, and self dealing is going to be exposed and then turned over to a real justice department for prosecution….and that means you jared boy….all of your thefts of the state’s medical supplies that they have paid for is going to be exposed and you sorry little ass is going to be sitting in jail. This is going to extend to every shady damn thing that Barr, McConnell and the rest of them have done…and even if idiot boy pardons them they are still going to do the investigations anyway…to drive a stake through the heart of the repub crime machine and then there will probably be state charges that are filed that are outside of the reach of any of the idiot’s pardons…as I’ve said before, I’ll bet this is already in progress in states across the country and we are going to see a flurry of activity by the end of January next year. I really don’t think the repub morons are bright enough to understand what is coming and will continue to grift right up until the election…keep at it idiots…more charges mean more jail time…
May 3rd
Well…made it all the way to coffee o’clock this morning and I wonder if that will help how tired I’ve been lately…I’m sure it’s better than getting up at 4 or 5 so I guess we’ll see later this morning…got a call from my middle son yesterday with a bit of surprising news…he and his wife are expecting so that makes two grand kids on the way in the span of a year…had an hour long talk with he and his wife and had quite a few laughs…going from no grand kids to two in a couple of months was a little strange to me but I’m pretty happy about it and they are really excited…so life goes on even in the pandemic….I did get some stuff done yesterday with mowing the lawn and getting all of my seeds planted along with cleaning the gutters on the garage…the one on the back must not have been cleaned in 20 years since it was filled to the top with soil and tiny maple trees….and the downspout was filled with dirt and I had to dig out around the outlet since it was buried in a foot of soil….but it flows now and I must have removed a hundred pounds of dirt…it’s a wonder that the weight didn’t collapse it….and then I washed the back of the garage since it was covered in dirt and and debris….still need to clean up that area and get it organized but I have all summer to do that and I need a day off….so I think I’ll just ride the bike today and veg some but I do have to remember to keep the seeds wet…and I need to pay two bills today but they are online so that will be easy…but, not right now…need more coffee and to start getting ready for the first ride…more later…
This is kind of funny…
Well….as you know, I have been prepping the two small areas on either side of the front walk to plant some flowers and I got the seeds before everything was shut down…one of the things I wanted in picking the seeds was that they all grow to be between 6 and 18 inches tall when mature…and a selection of colors and types….but yesterday when I started looking at the packages of seeds I noticed something that I had missed…or misread…the snapdragons that have really cool blue flowers and that I thought grew from 6 to 8 inches tall actually grow from 6 to 8 FEET tall….so, needless to say, they really won’t go too well with the others that are less than two feet tall. Luckily, I have two places that I can grow flowers that tall…one in the front by the shrubs where I have 4 feet of open space and next to the garage door where I have another flower bed that I cleaned up yesterday…and one that I was going to grow beans in until I decided to make the overflow garden in the old rose garden bed. I guess this mistake is part of the trials of planting flowers from seed for the first time…still going to be cool to see 6 foot tall flowers….
May 2nd
Well…I’m getting really tired of getting up before 5 so this morning I just wasn’t going to have it and went back to bed for 45 minutes…yay? I think I may have slept for 10 of the 45 minutes but that’s better than nothing…and my allergies are as bad as they have been all year and I wonder if it’s from working outside yesterday? We’ll see today since I’m going to be back out there again planting the flower seeds and some veggies in the overflow garden…but, not until I get a bike ride in here in a few minutes…it’s 7 o’clock and it’s already 56 degrees out there so I can go out in shorts by 8 or so…but not until I have an ocean of coffee and maybe take some ibuprofen to get after the headache I’ve had for two days now….can’t take any allergy stuff since I need to ration it so I can sleep at night so I guess I’ll just be miserable today…not going to do as much work today but I do have some more cleanup to do in the back yard to uncover more of the blocks that have been overgrown over the years… and put the roll of chain link behind the garage until I decide what to do with it….but I’ll have to clean up and organize it first….oh, and I need to mow the lawn again to try to level it out until the new grass starts to come in…so, I guess I do have lots of work to do today once I get started…but more coffee first…one cup just isn’t going to do it….more later…