Well…as I told you this morning, today was going to be the day that I kept the streak of 61 years of at least one swim in LM going….and I did! Even though it looked like rain, and was raining when I left, I trooped over to GH to at least splash in the water…when I got there, the wind was blowing about 25 from the southwest and there were huge waves coming in…but the problem was that the wind was coming from the southwest…it set up a really, really strong rip current that was running parallel to the beach and made it hard to even get to water that was deep enough to swim in…but, I made it and the water was really quite nice but I didn’t stay in long with the dangerous conditions…and getting back through the rip to the beach just about wore me out with the shallows being almost 50 yards wide. I did find something out today, too…wet sand is even a bigger pain to deal with as dry…it got all over the interior, my clothes, and me and wouldn’t brush off with a towel…so, the car is going to need to be vacuumed tomorrow…on to 62 years!

Well…as you could see if you came here earlier, my site was down from when I got up this morning until just now when my son got it fixed…so, I’m running late today through no fault of my own…geez…that’s weird to say…I did sleep in until 5:50 this morning and don’t feel to bad right now since I’ve already gotten the bike ride in…did get a little wet riding today but it wasn’t bad…I think I missed the heavy rain…so far…but I am going to go out to GH here in a while to get my yearly swim in even if it’s raining…just as long as there isn’t lightning I’m fine with rain…just won’t be able to sit on the beach today but I’m going take my chair anyway just in case…this will be 61 years in a row that I’ve had a swim in LM and I wonder how long I can keep that up? I did get the bathroom done at the house yesterday but I won’t go over today…hmmm…maybe this afternoon…I do have some prep work to do before I can paint the living room and still need to do clean up from all the sanding on the cupboard doors from the bathroom…and I do need to put the bathroom door back on so maybe I will go over….more later…

Well…made it all the way to 6 this morning but that is not unusual given that I didn’t get to bed until almost midnight…actually, I got up at 5:03 the first time but was able to go back to bed for another hour and sleep which is unusual….I think doing only one ride yesterday is the key why I don’t hurt too much this morning but I’m not sure if I’ll do one or two today…it looks like I can get out here in a few minutes since it is almost 60 out there but I will have to put a fleece on since I am not adapting well to the cooler weather yet…don’t even want to think about the cold that is coming and having to put the full thermasuit on to ride….didn’t really get anything done around here yesterday with going over to the house and then watching races most of the day and today looks the same with putting the bathroom back together and then back here for live drag races at 1…I suppose I could clean when the races are on and I might just do that since the kitchen and bathroom both need some work….more later…

Well…I know it’s the first day of the month but you know how I really hate getting behind here so I thought I’d just do one about nothing really…don’t want to do politics today…at least not right now…I did head over to the house today just to get the 200 pounds of dirt and stuff out of the trunk…I felt bad about how the rear of the car was sagging right down to the bump stops and didn’t want to do any permanent damage that I can’t afford to fix right now…so, I filled the holes in the front yard and put some seed down along with putting some weed and feed on the yard to see if I can start to bring it back this fall…and I pulled some more tape off the bathroom and the back door that I painted Friday…that came out pretty good and getting the sill plate painted made all the difference to how the entry looks…I do need to clean the translucent dropped ceiling panels for the bathroom tomorrow since they look like they haven’t been cleaned in 20 years….going to be a pain without the water being on but it needs to be done…need to take a bucket and a scrub brush and use the tub to do that job…still lots of cleanup and detail work to do on the bathroom since you always get bleed through even with the blue painters tape…then I can start on the living room and the bedroom I’m going to use but need to do more prep work first…lots of holes need to be filled and sanded…but not Tuesday…doing my swim then so I’ll take that day off…

Well…5:04 this morning and I am getting tired of getting up so damn early…and I feel pretty crappy to go along with it so today is already shaping up to be one I’m going to want to forget…not sure what bloomed over the past few days but the goldenrod but whatever it is, I feel miserable and stuffed up today along with every other damn allergy symptom so I think I’ll have to take something here in a little while…I did get two bike rides in yesterday and that may be why I’m so exhausted today…the second ride was pure torture and I never really got comfortable at all…so I think I’ll think about riding at all today later…it’s raining right now so that gives me an excuse to just ease into the day…I was going to take the weekend off the house but I needed to get supplies to work on the lawn and now the Miata is sagging with 200 pounds of dirt, feed, and seed in the trunk…will take that over tomorrow and work on the lawn after I get the bathroom put back together…not much to do today…if I don’t ride today, I will clean some around here but I can’t get stuff ready to take to the house since I don’t have room for it other than in the passenger’s seat…so maybe I’ll take something small….more later….

Well….damn, it’s cold out there right now…only 50 degrees and that is going to force me to wait for a while to go out since I just don’t want to be that cold right now…so that may set me up for only one ride today with F1 qualifying on at 9…and it’s Spa today and I don’t want to miss that…didn’t sleep too badly last night and got up late for me at almost 6 but that didn’t help…still pretty exhausted right now and I hope the coffee helps soon…I worked at the house every day this week and that may have something to do with it…and I have to get some topsoil, lawn food, and grass seed today to take over there Monday and do some of the repairs to the lawn I have been thinking of…after I put the bathroom back together, that is….and pull some more tape off the walls and finish that up…I am going to take Tuesday off for my yearly swim in Lake Michigan since it is going to be 87 and that looks like the last warm day of the year…and I do need to be able to keep my swim streak going at 61 years….I wonder how much beach is left in GH with the high water levels? Not much to do today…just the normal weekend day with some cleaning and prepping stuff to take over to the house Monday…more later…oh, and Michigan starts their season tonight and I am looking forward to that…Go Blue!

Well…I think all the work at the house is taking it’s toll on me after being there every day this week…I am sore and tired but am going back over there today to get one of the entry doors painted since it is so ugly, dirty, and beat up…and the door sill has no paint on it at all…so, it will be a short day over there so I can start to not hurt so much over the weekend…and I haven’t gotten anything done around here all week and I do need to clean some and prep more stuff to take over…I even slept okay last night and didn’t get up until after 5:30 but didn’t have any dreams and that was disappointing since I have had a few lately…damn, I hope the coffee starts to work soon or I’m going to have a terrible ride this morning…the computer on the bike started to work after a few miles out yesterday but I am still glad I bought a new one since the old one has been so unreliable over the past month or so…I did get over 3300 miles over the past couple of days and that gets me to about 900 miles or so to do to break the all time record and tha just might be doable…more later…

Well…made it all the way to 5:23 this morning and that seems like a small win with how it has been going….but I am still pretty damn tired today and pretty sore, too, even with taking the day off the bike…had a flat when I got ready to ride yesterday and then my bike computer finally died after acting really weird over the past couple of weeks…I couldn’t get one locally since no one carries the inexpensive ones anymore so I had to order one from Amazon for 18 bucks but that won’t be here for a week or so so I guess I’ll just have to write down how many rides I do so I can keep an accurate record of the miles I do…it’s good that I ride the same route every day so that will be easy….normally, I take Thursdays off working on the house to get supplies I need but I did that earlier in the week so I am going to put the second coat on the bathroom today and maybe prep for painting the entry doors and frames since the side door frame has no paint on it at all and it will make all the difference to get that done…so, another busy day with a late lunch since I have to cook some thighs I have had in the fridge for a week…more later…

Well…as you know, I had to buy a new lawnmower for the house and decided to get a cheap little electric for only 88 bucks on Amazon since the yard is so small…so today, I put it in the car in the carton to take it over and had to put the top down to make it fit even with how small it is…it took about a minute to assemble it since the handle just snapped in as did the handle for the bag and those were the only two things I had to do to use it…I was really surprised how well it coped with grass that was about 5 inches tall and the bag worked good even though it was small and I had to empty it a lot…but, it’s also a mulcher so if I mow once a week, I won’t have to bag at all…I do need to get my extension cord handling skills back but it wasn’t too big of a pain so I can live with it…and just pushing a button to start it is pretty cool….and getting the lawn mowed allowed me to put up some barriers that I hope will keep the idiots next door from parking on my damn lawn…when I got over there yesterday there were two cars at least 3 feet on the parkway in front of the house and they have left tire tracks and killed a bunch of the lawn that I want to restore…need to get some dirt and grass seed to fill that damage and some next to the driveway entry that is about 8 inches deep…I was going to paint today but I needed to take advantage of no cars on the lawn, and you know how I am with a new toy…just had to try it…

Well…running about on time this morning and slept in all the way to 5:20 and that is better than 3:04 so I’ll take it…I can’t believe how worn out I was yesterday after I got back here from running errands and I forgot to put sunscreen on and got scorched…that may be part of it but painting the bathroom had a lot to do with it, too…need to put a second coat on today so I can put it back together next week…it had so much detail work that it took me almost 4 hours to paint the tiny thing…I do need to take the mower over today and put it together so I can mow the lawn tomorrow…I normally take Thursdays off but not this week…just need to get everything done so I can get the water on…I do need to cook today with no leftovers in the fridge and that will put he first meal back til almost 2 and that is really screwing up my schedule…down to one meal a day and that’s probably not a good idea with all of the work I’ve been doing lately…I may even have to take an ibuprofen before I head over today since I hurt everywhere…again….more later…