Well…running about on time for a Sunday and had a nice surprise when the store I get my paper from that is close to me is back open again….and that makes it only a mile or so I have to travel…and the steering in my car is getting better every time I drive it so that is a load off…must be getting the air out of it and that is cool….slept okay last night and didn’t wake up til around 5 but just rolled over and slept until 6 or so when I got up…so, I feel okay this morning and will be getting on the bike by 7:15 or so so I can get two rides in by around 10…..not sure if I’m going to go out for a swim today…just don’t feel like it so I probably won’t….still didn’t rain at all yesterday and it looks like the rain has set up south of the Michigan border so we won’t be getting any today and that kinda sucks….need to water the lawn today and that may just be all the work I do….but I do need to get back to work on the house soon and that will probably start this week…so much for taking the summer off….not much to do today…need to read some news and have another cup of coffee before I get on the bike and I still can’t understand why I feel the need to get out so early…don’t have anything to do really but I guess that’s just me….one day, I am going to just take a day off and veg out…yeah, right…that’s not going to happen….more later….

Well…darn, another day with getting nothing done and I am depressed about that…oh, I took care of the normal stuff like riding the bike and taking care of the garden but nothing else….so, tomorrow has to be different…I have a bag of topsoil so I can do some more patching of the yard and I really should get on that even as I lose more lawn every day since it never rains out here and I can’t afford to keep it alive…okay, that’s not true, I can afford it but damn, a hundred bucks a month just to keep the lawn alive? Oh, well…I did get out to the beach for a short swim this morning after doing the bike rides but even that was a bit of a pain with the running event they had going on that used my trails for it…on the way out, I had to ride the roads the whole way with the trail clogged with runners but that worked out okay with the roads that were closed for the run…and it seems that the steering on the car is getting better and it may be that it had some air in it after I forgot to check the power steering for a year and it was really low…and it looks like I don’t have a coolant leak…checked it a few minutes ago and it is still full so that’s good….I think I need to start up on the house again and that will probably happen this week….need to start on the trim in the dining room and do the bathroom door and frame so maybe I’ll get that done this week….once that is done, the painting will go pretty fast….I did pick my first 5 beans from my plants today and I hope I’ll have enough for a meal by the end of the week…probably should have planted a bunch more of them but 16 should be enough….and I think my first flowers at the back of the house are going to bloom soon since they have lots of buds on them and I can’t wait….still hasn’t rained out here in almost a month and the stuff that was supposed to come today is falling apart over the lake…again…crap…oh, well…time for some tv…

Well…damn, I feel just like I did when the Russians installed the asshole trump and I just can’t read the news….but I will try to get this one done before I get on the bike….slept okay last night but I really stayed out at the beach too long yesterday…had to slather myself in aloe last night to keep my head and face from peeling and I can still feel the tightness in my back from the sun so I think it’s a good idea that I’m not going out there today…my skin needs the rest….I had squirrel boxing in my yard under the tree by the water container yesterday…a young black and a young grey squirrel were playing and then sat on their haunches and had a slap fight that was just so funny…and I had three kittens in the yard that I saw a  few days ago but this time the momma wasn’t with them….it’s going to be a loud day up here with all of the activity going on downtown over the weekend…lots of craft sales and concerts so I may have to ride over there and take a look…and there is a 10K going on at the park…and we had the fifth cruise ship moored here yesterday which I still can’t figure out…but at least this time they had shuttles to take people around the city…not much to do today…just going to get the rides in and then take it easy the rest of the day…need to feed the garden and the flowers when I get back from the rides and get started watering the lawn…..the goldenrod flowered along the trail yesterday and I can feel it today…my head is stuffed up and I have a headache already so it is going to be bad out there on the bike….more later…

well…look, with the overturning of Roe by the corrupt SC today, I am so depressed by the damage this is going to do that I really can’t pretend that life goes on…it doesn’t and me writing anything else today would be too much of a pretense and papering over the gravity of this outlaw ruling…so, I won’t be back today for anything else….I just can’t….

Well…only up once at 5:10 this morning so I guess that is a win but I don’t feel like it….pretty darn worn out and I hope the coffee starts to work soon….I don’t know how it happened but I am now getting three days out of a pot of coffee when it’s always been two…I wonder if that has something to do with feeling worn out? It was an okay day yesterday and I did get out to the beach for an hour or so and it was cool to watch the dredges in operation depositing sand on the beach to make it twice it’s normal width….the depositer was connected to the dredge with pipes from over a mile away and I was surprised how quiet it was when in operation….can’t wait to ride out there and see how much they got done yesterday….it’s going to make it a really long walk to get to the water when they are done….didn’t get anything done yesterday but water the lawn and today is going to be the same other than I’m out of leftovers so I’ll need to cook today…..and I need to take something out of the freezer for later in the weekend…or maybe I’ll make some of the breaded chicken fillets that I have lots of…..not much to do today….just going to get on the bike here in a minute and take it easy today…will be back to the beach later this morning to get a swim in and get some sun but don’t have any plans other than that….might have to go to Meijers to get some beer since I like to have one on the beach when I go out there and only have one left…but I won’t be on the beach over the weekend with it being so busy out there so maybe I can wait til next week….more later…

Well…as I talked about earlier, I was curious about what kind of animal was tipping over my water container that I put out every day for the animals around here…as I was closing up the blinds for the night a few minutes ago, I saw what it was…a family of three skunks were in my yard drinking from it and that is just too cool…I don’t think I’ve ever seen a live skunk in my long life and to add a new experience is pretty damn neat…..they are quite strange looking animals with their long black and white fur…and the big one was motionless while drinking for a good 5 minutes…so, to go along with the deer, turkeys, and cats, we now have another species to add to the list and that makes me smile…..pretty damn cool….

Well…just wanted to warn everybody that I am heading to the beach to get a swim in so there won’t be a political one here until a bit later…I finally got to see the dredges putting sand on the beach this morning and it looks like they are going to extend the beach by a lot more than the 40 ft they started with and that is pretty cool but makes it a much farther walk to get in to swim…. and the noise is going to be a bit much but I can go all the way to the south end of the beach so it won’t be too bad….more later….

Well…that was a crappy day…had to make many calls to shut down the assholes that think I want to listen to their bullshit music in my house and that always depresses me…and I am pretty depressed today…I did sleep okay since the firestarters out here didn’t light the whole damn neighborhood on fire like they did Tuesday night so I didn’t have to eat smoke in my house….okay, that’s enough of that…I did realize why the A-10’s I saw yesterday looked so different…they had a pointed fairing over where the rotary cannon normally sits just under the nose of the plane….so no armament and that just raises more questions about what state they were in….heading for scrapping? Who knows? Didn’t get much done yesterday but didn’t need to and I don’t think I’m going to do much today….I’m just so tired from being depressed that I want to take the day off until the hearings come on this afternoon….did just see something strange in my yard….a mother cat had her kittens playing in my yard until an opossum started walking through where they were and the kittens climbed up my big tree and the momma attacked the opossum….all while baby squirrels sat on the power lines watching what was going on….and some animal dumped my water container over for the second night in a row and I wonder what it is….I really wish that was all I had to think about out here…but the noise is going to start again and I’m going to have to deal with it all day again….and that is bullshit…need to get a couple of e-mails out to the city government today to bitch about it…when do I get a day off from that? Not much to do today….at least my teeth don’t hurt much so I guess that’s something…just going to get on the bike here in a few minutes and I wonder why? Not enjoying it much lately and it has become more of a job than anything else and that is a function of the depression, too….so, do I just veg the day out and elevate my guilt response or do I drag my ass out off the couch and get on the bike? Yeah…you know the answer to that….on the bike and hope that it gets better…damn, I hate the people out here….at least I have tiny little beans on my bean plants….and in a few weeks I’ll have fresh beans to eat…more later….

Well…after getting everything done today, I decided to hear out to the beach for a swim and some sun and the normal set up is to pour one beer into my Contego leak proof coffee cup and throw that in my cooler with my water bottle and some sunscreen and an ice pack…on the way out, I heard a loud pop and knew what that meant…the pressure had gotten too high in the cup and it had blown the top off it…luckily, I had zippered it shut so the beer shrapnel was contained inside and I had put a spare beer in so I had one to have at the beach for my swim…when I got my chair set up and comfortable, I heard a loud jet engine and couldn’t figure out how with the airport all the way on the other side of the city…so I looked to the south and saw two A-10 Warthogs coming up the shoreline over the lake at about 200 feet altitude…pretty cool but they were the nicest ones I’ve ever seen…not beat up at all and, since the last ones were made in the 80’s, that was just not right…they looked like they could have come off the line today so I wonder if they were rebuilt ones? Whatever they were, it was cool to see them flying in formation just off the beach…you never know what you’re going to see at the beach….

Well…running a little early today with having to work on the computer to get it to do a windows update and it finally just finished so I guess it worked okay…slept okay last night but it was a 2:14 and 4:40 night so that kinda sucked and I finally just gave up and got up at 5:36…I found my next neighborhood improvement project to get the burning of open campfires banned up here and the first e-mails to the city commission will go out today…last night some asshole was burning near me that filled my damn house with smoke and I had to close all the windows while it was 85 degrees and I am just not going to tolerate that…so, I’ll be working to get them to enforce the burning ordinance that says you can have a fire if the smoke doesn’t impact any other property…and it does so here we go….even with not sleeping a lot, I still feel pretty good this morning and will be getting out on the bike for the first ride here in a few minutes and that will get me out before 7 and back here to do the grocery run…I did have to water the lawn yesterday and will probably have to do it for the next week or so to try to salvage the lawn….I put so much work into seeding it and getting it to grow I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet and spend a hundred bucks to keep it alive….I finally remembered to wash the car yesterday to get all of the pollen and dust off it and it now looks okay….not much to do today….I may do a beach run this aft since I haven’t been out there this week and I really could use a swim…don’t have a lot else to do today other than the grocery run and I don’t mind that….but I’m still kind of stuck in getting the summer going and I do need to think about how to fix that….more later…