Well….was going to work on the siding on the house today but just thought I’d take the weekend off and just do easy stuff like mowing the front of the house, killing more ants, and now I’m watering the lawn…I did get two rides in and ran across a gathering of Impala owners…the last of the big, rear wheel drive ones and there must have been 50 of them in a parking lot over by the marina…weird…and my right thigh hurt from the start of the first ride and I think that is trying to tell me to take it a little easier and to really do skip the sprints like I know I need to do….the bike has been working perfectly the past few days and haven’t had to adjust it at all so I’m going to keep my fingers crossed that it will continue…and that it will rain later today like it’s supposed to…ha, ha, ha….yeah, that made me laugh…it just isn’t raining out here this year and I can’t figure it out…we’re more than 9 inches of rain under normal even with the inch we had about a week ago…okay, that’s it…going to take the rest of the day off….
Monthly Archives: July 2021
July 31st
Well….dang, it’s only 52 degrees out here right now and that means I’ll need a fleece to get on the bike for the first ride and it’s still July? Or I guess I could wait til after F1 qualifying and go out at 10 but that would put me late for the second ride….slept okay last night but I’m feeling pretty slow right now and I could go back to bed in a minute…just feeling pretty worn out but I didn’t do anything to do that….I do need to get off my butt and get things done around here and I think I’m going to try some stripper on the floor in the spare bedroom today just to see if it will take the adhesive off and make a good surface to maybe refinish….I am so disappointed with how many tomatoes I’m going to get off my plants this year…they are really small and very few and I will need to do a lot of work on the soil to make it better…oh, well…I did make some bread and butter pickles yesterday and they came out pretty good so I’ll probably be making more of those soon…pickles are the only way I like cukes and I already have three types in the fridge and lots more jars to put them in…I really wanted to make some tomato sauce but there are not enough tomatoes for that…I am going to make a pizza next week with my green peppers on it…I think I’ll do some herbs in the garden next year, too, so I’ll have to plan that over the winter….not much to do today…I’ll have to tamp down my guilt if I’m going to take the weekend off and just enjoy my life…that’s harder than I ever expected…especially with how much work I have to do around here….hmmmm…more later…
This is big…
Well….this just came across the news a few minutes ago….the DOJ has ruled that the House ways and means committee has the right to the idiot trump’s tax returns….yep, the loser loses another one when Bill Baar is not there to protect him….I’m not sure what this really means at this point but they can now give them to their staff and their accountants can now pore over them to see where he cheated on them….whether or not the House can make a criminal referral, I’m not sure, but whatever is in them can now be released by the committee if they so choose….and that could be the final nail that keeps idiot boy from running again if idiot boy is not indicted by NYC…can’t wait to hear the loser rant about this one…
This is just strange…
Well…okay, let’s talk about something different today…not feeling the political thing right now so I want to talk about an ad I saw the other day on the internet that made my jaw drop…I’ve owned boats in the past with the largest outboard motor being a 1961 Evinrude 75 horsepower two stroke 4 cylinder…but yesterday, I saw what I think is just strange…Mercury Marine just announced what I think is the biggest outboard motor ever built…a 450 cubic inch V-12 that makes 600 horsepower….and that’s not the strangest part, that is the price…77,000 dollars…yep, you saw that right, 77 grand for an outboard? My house only cost 13 grand more…you can buy a new Corvette for less than that…you can buy a BMW M3 for less than that….who the hell is the market for something like this? Mercury says it’s for people with 32 to 60 foot boats and those go for close to 200 grand or more so I guess it’s for people with more money than sense….I’m still shaking my head….
July 30th
Well…it’s pretty cool out here right now and I probably should have closed the windows last night…but, it feel good to have the humidity down some with how bad it’s been out here lately…slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 but I still feel a little flat this morning…yesterday was the first time in a week that I felt strong on both rides and that was a long recovery from the problems I had last Friday….I almost went out to play in the waves yesterday but they had the red flags up and I didn’t have enough energy to fight my way through the rip out and back…have to be a little more careful on these beaches with the swirling rip that goes on for the first 30 feet into the water….might go out today with how calm it is…but I need to run some errands first so that will put me late on the bike for the first ride….it looks like I’m not going to get many tomatoes off my garden this year and I’m not sure why…just put 5 pounds of food on it and the plants look like they could use more….and the ones I do have are really small…so I guess that tells me I’ll have to condition the soil more next summer….I am going to get some green peppers this year and a few Jalapenos so I can live with that….not much to do today…I did get out to get the chair for the front porch yesterday but I need to get out to Target to get a blanket since I don’t own one and really should have one…and I’m getting some pizza fixings so when the green peppers are ready I can make one or two….that will probably be next week….more later….
The new policy is to ignore them…
Well…it appears that there is a new dem strategy tha is being played out int he House right now…and that is to ignore the repubs completely…and I think that Nancy started it when she did not let McCarthy appoint the bomb throwers that he uses to disrupt every damn committee and even the two impeachments….and she called McCarthy a moron yesterday for opposing the mask mandates to try to stem the uncontrolled spread of the delta variant in the House…she wouldn’t have to do that if the dam repubs would get vaccinated…all of the dems have but at least half of the repub reps aren’t and that is a recipe for disaster in any enclosed space right now….and it appears that even though Michigan is doing good against the delta, mask mandates are coming back even for the vaccinated and I am pissed about that…how long do we have to shut down our lives just because a bunch of right wing assholes refuse to be vaccinated? How long do we have to let these pricks screw up this country with their delusional bullshit? I really have had enough of coddling these morons…how about we exclude these idiots from normal life until they are vaccinated…okay, this one veered off course but that happens sometimes…at least I wrote something….
July 29th
Well…that was okay…got a little sleep last night and only woke up a couple of times so that was cool…but, man, it’s humid out here and I’m running the fan already to keep from sweating through my clothes so that might mean a trip out to the beach today…I think I’m going to buy a lawn chair to put on my little deck that leads to my front porch so I can sit outside when it’s nice out there…I do have to start making this place mine with details like that and I can get one that I want for only 18 bucks at Lowes….I did get more pickles made yesterday and got the first cherry tomato out of the garden and they should start coming fast now…but I don’t have a lot of regular tomatoes on the plants so I may not have the bounty that I had last year….and I think my bean plants are about done but I’ve gotten 20 times more that I got last year and I have quite a few green and Jalapeno peppers that have set and I only got one green pepper last year….will probably have to dig out the garden and put better dirt in for next spring but we’ll see….the two cukes I’ve used so far came from the accidental plant that grew along the back of the house and I have tomatoes back there, too, and the flower seeds that I planted have started to sprout so I have some color back there, too…I’ll have to remember to water there next summer so the flowers will come up sooner…not much to do today…have been having problems with the shifter on the bike all summer so I may have to put the new one on the bike soon…it’s a pain having to adjust it constantly….I may get started on the west side of the house but I’m not too motivated right now….more later…
Can’t think of a topic….
Well…yeah, I’m running late today and there really is no reason for it other than I’ve spent the past hour looking for a topic and no luck…I could talk about the infrastructure deal that the repubs are supposed to have “taken over” to push it over the finish line but we all know they will drag that out until it dies of natural causes since they don’t want anything to pass that will help people other than the rich and I can’t understand why Schumer is going to let that happen….this bullshit emphasis on “bipartisanship” is so damn naive or just plain stupid that I can’t remember being so mad at the dems running the show…just dump the repubs and do it through reconciliation so you’ll only need 51 votes…you’ve given the repubs every thing that they wanted and they haven’t given anything…just like every damn time you try to negotiate with these pricks and you end up passing a repub bill…what about the people who voted for you? Don’t they get anything for all the work they did to put you there? At least Nancy Pelosi is taking a wait and see attitude about this bill since she knows that no repub can be trusted and she won’t sign on to anything if it doesn’t achieve dem goals…so Chuck, listen to Nancy this time…hey, I did find a topic….should I change the title? Nope…let’s leave it and confuse everybody….
July 28th
Well…just noticed that the swelling in my right foot is almost gone and that would be the first time in almost a year that has happened….I wonder what I’ve been doing that made it better? Slept okay last night but feel like my allergies are going to go crazy…it has been ramping up the past week or so but I haven’t seen ragweed or golden rod along the trail…but there has to be some of it around here….just noticed that the morning birds around here are seagulls and that is a little weird for me….I’m used to doves and bluejays and I guess that goes with being here on the coast…and there is some strange bird that I can’t remember hearing before that pipes up daily…might have to get the binoculars out to look for it…I did get the entire lawn watered yesterday since the rain that was supposed to come fell apart…again…before it got here but we are forecast to get storms again tonight and almost an inch of rain…I sure wish the storms would come when I could sit on the porch and see them….not one the whole summer and I think that’s strange….I did get my first ballot completed yesterday and need to drop it off at the city clerk’s office this morning…or I could just put a stamp on it and drop it in the mail but I want to see if there is a drop box outside of the city hall for the November election….not much to do today…just the grocery run and the bike rides…I did get two rides in yesterday for the first time since last Thursday and it was okay…didn’t struggle much but I did go down to about 80% and didn’t push it and that’s okay….need to take care of myself better and if that means not going crazy on the bike, I’m okay with that….more later….
These were no “tourists”
Well…If you haven’t been following the first day of the 1/6 commission, you should be…the officers who defended the capitol from these terrorists, to quote one of the officers, he described the battle as something from “medieval” times and it appears to me that all of these men have been sorely damaged by this attack…and the attackers weren’t any damn “tourists” as the repubs keep spouting that bullshit nonsense. This is just the first day of the hearings and hearing these officers talk about their experiences and the video of the attack, it is so much worse that any news reporting to this point….it was a pitched battle against people in tactical gear who shouted racist epithets at the African American officers who were protecting this country…we all know who started this crap, and I can’t figure out why the idiot trump is not in jail right now, along with gosar and the rest of the elected officials who helped plan and carry out this attack on our country..it is against the law to incite violence to try to overthrow the government…so Garland need to follow up after the commission does it’s work and charge these assholes…every damn one of them…including hawley and jordan….geez…