Well…this was a little weird…I woke up at around 6 but instead of coming here or reading the news, I just went back to bed for an hour and a half…didn’t sleep much but I think it helped get me started for the day….we’ll see later after the coffee starts to work….still pretty worn out after doing 30 miles on the bike yesterday but I’m not too sore so I’ll take that and build on it….I do need to seed some more areas of the yard today with the rain that is coming later in the day but I’m not sure how that will work without the topsoil to hold it in place…and I don’t feel like going to depot to get more…I do need to run some errands this morning but I am going to wait until it warms up enough to put the top down on the car…I did buy some burger yesterday and I am going to have a red meat orgy this weekend with olive burgers and tacos….and I think I’m even going to have some cocktails…I really try to not eat red meat too often but damn, I just need to have some once in a while…and with meijers having it for 1.79 a pound this week, I just couldn’t pass it up….it would be nice to have a grill to cook the burgs but I am in no spending mode for the next couple of months or so trying to get my goal of 20k in the checking account again so I can relax a little bit…..and get ready for the 4 grand that is going out in August to pay my property taxes and car insurance…not much to do today….just need to run the errands and then I think I’m going to get the mower out and finish up the vacant lot across the street for Glenn….I made him late so he couldn’t finish it and I like helping with this stuff….more later…
Monthly Archives: May 2021
Wildlife and other stuff….
Well…it’s the second day of quiet up here and it is odd how not thinking about that all the time has opened me up to seeing and appreciating other things that are around me…this morning, when I was on the trail through the woods, I saw a red headed woodpecker fly across the trail in front of me and land on a tree and I couldn’t believe how big it was…it must have been a foot tall and I don’t remember them being that big…on the way back down the hill from the beach, there was a deer just standing next to the trail eating someone’s lawn…it looked up as I approached but didn’t run…it just watched me and then went back to eating…that was a little weird…when I was heading out for the second ride, I saw that someone was mowing the empty lot across the street so I turned around to go back and talk to him for a while to find out why he was doing it…it turns out that the city pays people 200 bucks a year to adopt a lot and that lot is one they assigned to him…he lives in the neighborhood and was a pretty nice guy but he had an electric mower that went dead before he finished so I think I’ll finish it up for him tomorrow and do the trimming with my string trimmer…will give me something to do and I do want to help out….oh, one more thing, my daughter and her husband just bought a “summer home” in the Poconos…I’m pretty happy they are doing so well….
A trump grand jury…
Well…yeah, doing a political one this early in the morning feels a little weird to me but I ran out of news to read as I wait for C&J to be posted over at Kos so I thought I’d talk about this little nugget that brought a smile to my face yesterday…there has been a grand jury empaneled to look at the evidence that the idiot trump is a crook and deserves to be indicted…and, while that is reason to smile, you have to remember the old saw from a prosecutor from a few years back that stated that he could “get a ham sandwich indicted” since he is the only one that presents evidence to the grand jury…that said, there has been evidence for a long time, including testimony that trump has committed bank fraud for a long, long time and now Cy Vance has the tax returns to prove it. So, I sit here with my fingers crossed that the orange menace will finally have to pay for all of his criminality…wouldn’t it be nice to see the orange menace in an orange jumpsuit? That would make my day…but it will take time…probably the end of summer….
May 26th
Well…it finally rained last night but it was too late for me to see it and that was a little disappointing….still having problems sleeping again and I’m feeling it today…and I think I pulled something in my right side working on the yard yesterday since my ribs on that side hurt like crazy but it could be that I just slept on it wrong…cripes, it sucks getting old….I did get a lot of stuff done in the yard yesterday with mowing, running the string trimmer, planting grass seed, and then feeding it again…found out that with sandy soil, you have to feed the grass differently….much less feed but much more often is the best way to green it up so I tried that and we’ll see how that works…I did have a flat on the bike yesterday but the rear tire went flat when it was just sitting here so I didn’t have to ride it back flat again….still trying to figure out how the hole got in the inside of the tube when I couldn’t feel anything that would do it…I did have a nice, quiet day around here yesterday and I hope today is the same…was very relaxing and I didn’t need any antacids at all….not much to do today…just the grocery runs and then getting on the bike but I need to start planning on painting the trim on the doors that is still raw wood or primer and needs to get protected….and I need to clean some since the kitchen is a little dirty and the floor could use mopping….more later…
What the hell happened to RFK jr.?
Well….when you are the son of a consistent liberal who was assassinated and spent his life working to make it better for the regular American, how the hell do you end up hanging out with Nazis? That is exactly what happened with RFK jr. and now he is suing Daily Kos to try to get the name of the person that did the honest diary there that reported on Jr. meeting up with ultra right wing neo nazis in Germany…and we can’t ignore the first amendment issues here that the right wing consistently ignores except to bleat about it when their hate is removed from social media and they are “canceled”…not even understanding that private companies can’t violate your 1st amendment rights…that can only be done by a government entity of some sort….and here’s the thing, the right wing judge that got the case ruled that Kos has to supply the name and that ruling is being appealed….it has been reported that the entire Kennedy family is running away from this idiot and I wonder what is he getting by being a terrible nazi lover? Of course, all of this is just my opinion and that IS protected by the first amendment…but, if you were seen at a nazi rally, doesn’t that make you at least a sympathizer? I guess every family has their morons in them….
May 25th
Well…man, for being good last night, I still feel pretty crappy this morning and didn’t sleep well at all…but, I have lots to do today and I’ll need to shake that off and get at it here in a few minutes….need to get the string trimmer out and then mow the lawn and get some bare parts seeded since it is going to rain later today and last a while and that may just sprout the seed…finally…after using the weed killer, almost half of the lawn is now dead and needs seed but I am going to take it piece by piece since doing large parts without a cover of topsoil didn’t work too well…only did one ride yesterday and today looks the same with using the morning to work around here and the rain coming in by late afternoon….it looks like I’ll get to 1k miles for the year in the next couple of days but won’t get anywhere near the 6k I did last year…and that’s okay….I won’t say not much to do today because I do have lots to do and will be working all morning and then I have to use up leftovers for lunch….then on the bike for a ride and I may be able to get a little down time later in the day….more later….
A republican disease…
Well…just read a really interesting article that proposes that since repubs are not going to take the covid vaccine, the disease is going to turn into an ideological one…with those on the left being immune and the repubs on the right continuing to be in danger of dying even though herd immunity could be reached for the rest of us. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard…with fox news and the rest of the right wing propaganda outlets still pushing their idiot followers to reject the vaccine for whatever reasons they choose for the day, these folks are setting themselves up to continue to get sick and die for as long as the virus is still circulating…which will probably be forever if it is anything like the flu. But, most of them don’t believe the virus is a problem so I say let them…if you are still so stupid after seeing almost a million Americans die from covid that you can’t do the simple thing like get vaccinated, I have no craps to give for them anymore…and it will be better for the gene pool to eliminate these morons…
May 24th
Well…I wonder what would happen if I decided to just not do anything today? No bike ride, no yard work, no garden work…no nothing and just sat on my couch and watched tv? Yeah, I don’t think I could do it either but the thought of it seem oddly comforting in some way. I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get up til after 6…and that should have been enough but I still feel pretty slow…it may be the lack of motivation I’ve been feeling lately….didn’t get anything done yesterday but the bike rides and I even forgot to make coffee last night which is happening more and more often…I think I may need a reset…can a human do a control alt delete? Was thinking that living out here is changing me in ways I don’t like….with all of the selfish people booming their music all the time, I have become harder and less tolerant and I don’t like that at all…and I have forgotten my mantra that you can control how you react to things…need to work on that or I’m going to be just as terrible as the people around me here….hmmmm….not much to do today…I need to figure out why my roku is not shutting off any more and try to fix that and I was going to go out and get more grass seed to start working on the huge parts of the lawn that was all weeds that I killed and is now bare….and I might do that…but right now, all I want to do is have coffee and read the news….more later…
Just don’t feel like politics today…
Well….it’s been one of those strange days where I just couldn’t get motivated to read the news so I didn’t get any ideas to do one on politics today…just didn’t feel right all day and when that happens, nothing works right either….I did get two rides in but didn’t get to the second one until 4 or so and that is really late…I was hoping that the fog had started rolling in at the lake but nothing yet…we are under a dense fog warning from tonight until tomorrow morning with the visibility under 1/4 of a mile and that would be cool to see….that damn heartburn is back again and I wonder if it’s the burrito I made for lunch…had some hot sauce with it and that may be it…or the cumin….who knows? Okay…I can’t get motivated to do any more of this…so I’m stopping now…
May 23rd
Well…running really, really late today with getting out on the bike before 7:30 and now just sitting back down here…I think I slept okay but don’t feel like it today…just darn worn out and I can’t figure it out…but, I’m not sore so I guess that’s something…didn’t do a second ride yesterday and that makes me feel a little guilty so I will get out for another one today before the napcar race is on…I have started to notice that my legs are getting definition from the almost 1k miles I’ve ridden since I moved out here and I think I’ve lost a little weight, too, so I guess that’s cool…I am still pretty depressed and I think part of it is that I have so much work to do around here and I’m not making much progress…I did finally get the light shut off downstairs and got the last of the plants planted so I need to get rid of the cups that had seeds that didn’t come up in them today and take the light down and pack it back up…not sure how much else I’ll get done today since I have been trying to take Sundays off and not feel guilty about it…and I haven’t been too successful with that…more later….