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June 16th

Well…running a little late today with getting out on the bike around 6 and then reading the paper before coming here to do this…it was still a little dark when I got out and it was so damn windy that it was a little unpleasant…slept okay last night but was up around 5 and that is disappointing…it would be nice to get at least one night of 7 hours or so…and I even went to bed late last night…oh, well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but cook and watch races and that looks like what today will be….going to make a pizza for lunch and I’m not sure if I’m going to go out on the bike again…could take a rest day of only 15 miles but I’ll think about that later…maybe it will rain? I do have to do some laundry today since I don’t have anything clean and need to do bedding and towels…so maybe I’ll just take it easy today…have been getting 30 miles a day in and don’t really need to do that every day…more later…

June 15th

Well…running a little late today with needing to get a bike ride in before the 24 hours of LeMans starts at 8…and that meant getting out around 6:30 before I had any coffee and that was not any fun…I really thought I was going to get another day off the bike with rain forecast but that changed overnight, I guess, and it looks like I may be able to get two rides in today…slept okay last night and didn’t get up until 6:14 but that meant I was on the bike after only being up for 15 minutes and that is just not long enough to wake up…but, I survived it and now have coffee and this to do…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do have to cook today with loading up the instant pot around 10:30 or so since the whole process takes about an hour and that will set me up for getting the second ride in early in the afternoon…I should clean some today and I may this afternoon but there is soccer on and with the 24 hours, I should be able to do a pretty good veg job today…more later….

June 14th

Well…that didn’t work too well…up at 5:14 and there was no going back to sleep this morning so I just gave up and got up…and it is cold in here since it is in the 40′s outside and it is June…didn’t think I’d be drinking coffee to warm up this time of year…took the day off the bike yesterday with all of the rain and my legs feel better for it…not stiff or sore at all but I’ll change that in a little while when I get out for the first ride…almost went out late yesterday but the wind was blowing over 30 and that is just too much…I fought the guilt pretty well yesterday but I won’t today…I did get a lot of cleaning done yesterday…finally got the fridge done then vacuumed and repaired the crack in my coffee table along with spider web removal…have to work on the car and then run an errand after I get the first ride in but I have to wait for the temp to come up since it is only 45 right now and that is just too damn cold to go out…it’s another leftover day today so no cooking to do…I think I’ll just do a little more cleaning while soccer is on later and then try to get a nap later since I was up way too early…more later…

June 13th

Well…it’s Thursday and I’m about on time for grocery day…I even remembered to come here this morning before I got to reading the news and I consider that a small victory…slept okay last night but was up at 4….but, my persistence of trying to go back to sleep was rewarded with another couple of hours of kind of sleeping and some really weird dreams that were quite welcome…and I feel okay this morning even after getting out to have a couple with G that wasn’t terrible…okay, that’s not fair…we actually had some fun and some laughs and it was good to get out of here for a while…it looks like I’m going to have to have the water pump replaced on the car along with the timing belt and a bunch of gaskets so I need to start saving since it will cost about 800 bucks…I’m going to try a foreign car shop that is just a mile or so from me so I can drop the car off and ride my bike home…have been checking comments online about them and they are almost all good ones so I think I’ll give them a try…but it’s not really urgent since the car only leaks about a tablespoon of coolant when I park it so maybe in a couple of weeks…and this will fix the oil seepage that is making the engine dirty and that will be cool…and I don’t have to work on it so that is worth 800 bucks…didn’t get much done yesterday but with the rain all day today, I am going to attack the fridge and get that cleaned later this morning if I can’t get out for a ride….it looks like the rain has parked over GR so I may get a rest day and heal up the legs some and that is a good thing….more later….

June 12th

Well…this getting up at 5 or so and then going back to bed for a half hour appears to be a new pattern that I think I like a little…that little bit of extra sleep seems to give me a lot more energy and I’m not sure why that would be…I do know that my allergies are bad this morning already and that is a pain in the butt since I can’t take anything for them after taking something last night….oh, well…got another double in on the bike yesterday and am going to try to do another one today since it may rain me out tomorrow or keep me to one…don’t have a lot of pain this morning so only going at 80% for the second ride seems to have helped and I think I’ll continue that and see what happens…at least it’s warmer this morning so I won’t have to put a fleece on when I get out…didn’t get a lot done yesterday with watching soccer most of the day but I do need to spray some bug killer today since I have lots of frickin crickets that are getting in here somehow and that is getting annoying….I’m used to spiders but the crickets a just a little too much…more later…

My coyote story…

Well…I almost forgot to talk about this one but it is a pretty good story so here goes…when I took off for an early ride Sunday morning…out of here a little before 7 and that is a little early but was the only time that I could avoid the rain…the ride was normal until the downhill after the first big climb along M-6 when I saw the weirdest thing I’ve seen on the bike…a coyote with one of it’s hind legs caught in the top of the four foot fence that lines the trail…it appeared that it had tried to leap the fence but just didn’t make it and was hangingĀ  high enough that it’s front legs couldn’t reach the ground…and me, being the idiot that I am, stopped to take a look to see if I could help…but, I’m not enough of an idiot to do so without protection of some heavy leather gloves since coyotes are known to have rabies quite a bit…so, I turned around, rode back home, got the gloves and headed back to the animal…by the time I got back to it, it must have shaken itself loose since it was gone and I admit that I felt a little relief since I don’t know enough about coyotes to have freed it safely….so, I think this one goes to the top of trail weirdness that I have seen over the years…now, I just need to see a bear to beat that one…

June 11th

Well…up at 5:25 again this morning but something weird happened…instead of just giving up and getting up, I went back to bed and actually slept for another half hour..and boy, some really weird dreams happened in that half hour and that was pretty cool…and adding that half hour has me feeling pretty good this morning…even before coffee…but damn, it’s 49 degrees out there…in June…in Michigan…and that is just not right…so that will put me back to riding until 10 so it will probably mean a one ride day again today and that isn’t bad…my legs don’t feel like they are going to fall off today so it appears I’ve not done any permanent damage by doing doubles every day but I will go back to them once the weather cooperates…I did get out to run an errand yesterday and need to do another one this morning…I mean when you can get 100% cotton polos at Target for 5 bucks, I can’t pass that up since most of mine are getting pretty shabby…so that will come after the ride when it warms up…the US plays it’s first women’s world cup match this afternoon and I have been watching most of them so far and it has been pretty good soccer that has delivered some surprises….so that means I probably won’t get anything done today…and that’s okay….more later….

June 10th

Well…that was a little better…didn’t wake up until 5:24 and stayed in bed until after 6 so that is a win in my book…and I don’t feel too bad today so that’s a double win…just noticed that I didn’t come back here for a second one yesterday and I’m not sure why that would be…had plenty of time and didn’t do much but get one bike ride in and cook so maybe it was just inertia and boredom…who knows? I normally like rainy days but yesterday was just kind of blah with the rain on and off all day…maybe because it was a little cold and I couldn’t open this place up and enjoy the sounds and smells…and the cold is going to linger this week with highs only in the 50′s later inĀ  the week…50′s, in June? That is just not right…..at least it’s over 60 right now and I’ll be able to get out on the bike as soon as I want since the rain has moved out…after cooking with the instant pot yesterday, I will have leftovers for the next couple of days but will need to start planning other meals for later in the week…I’m just so bored with food right now that nothing seems good so that may be a problem….more later…

June 9th

Well…back to crappy sleep again…up at 5 again this morning and that is so disappointing because I know that will hit me later in the day and I’ll be exhausted…and what little sleep I did get was on my right eye so my sight is blurry this morning…bitch, bitch, bitch…okay, I’ll stop that now….part of that could be that I cut back on allergy medicine yesterday and my eyes feel scratchy this morning….but, I don’t have a lot of pain so I’ll take that…it was going to be a day off the bike but it’s not raining right now and it looks like I have a dry slot that is going to last until almost 11 so I think I’ll get out for an easy one here in a few minutes…it’s just too damn hard to take a day off the bike unless it pouring or there’s lightning…didn’t get much done yesterday but I am going to cook and clean today as I watch the women’s world cup and some races later today….need to fire up the instant pot for chicken and veggies later to use some of that 10 pounds I bought last week….more later….

June 8th

Well…that breaks the string of sleeping okay at 6 days and I am pretty disappointed…up at 3:54 for the first time and then out of bed at 5:18 so I’m pretty early here this morning….and it looks like an early bike ride today, too, plan on getting out as soon as it’s light since it’s 57 right now and that is warm enough to go out in a t-shirt…want to get back here to watch the women’s world cup at 8 and then F1 qualifying is on after that so I may have something to nap to…and there is napcar on later, too so at least I won’t be bored today…or, I will be but there will be something playing in the background all day that may get my attention off and on…had an okay day yesterday with doing a double on the bike but not doing anything else but watching sports and today will be the same…have 10 pounds of chicken that I need to deal with either cooking or freezing it…or I’ll wait to tomorrow to run the instant pot on some and freeze some….that will be the extent of my thinking today and that’s a good thing since I really don’t want to do much more than that right now…more later…