Well…it’s almost 7 and I got out of bed at 6:30 so why don’t I feel like I slept? Hmmm…I wonder if I can take a day off? Nope, have too much to do today….it is darn cold outside and I’m not sure if I can put the top down for the grocery run today…I mean 51 degrees? I don’t have to leave here for an hour and a half so it should be warm enough….I hope….I think I’m going to have to take a day off the bike soon since I’m feeling pretty worn out and my elbow is still howling in pain…I may even have to make a doctors appointment to have them look at it since it is pretty swollen and the swelling has moved through it….it even looked red yesterday and anytime anything is red it is not a good thing….I do have to stop at menards this morning to try to find some stakes and twine to hold some of my tomato plants up…I have some cages out there already but some of the plants are growing out of them already so I just want to try something new and see if there is a better way….I am surprised how well they are growing in the crappy soil there is here and I have flowers on most of them already so I’m going to have way too many tomatoes…I even have a cuke plant that came up in the sunflower garden at the back of the house that I didn’t plant so that is pretty weird….but, I’ll take it…not much to do today…I probably shouldn’t ever say that with how much I have to do around here….but I’m just not motivated to do much right now…..so we’ll see what happens after I get the grocery run done….more later….

Well…got the roof fixed this morning and I feel pretty good about that…it only cost 150 bucks and they replaced the shingles, nailed down a bunch more that were loose, fixed some flashing, and inspected the rest of the roof….and now I don’t have to try to do it with my brother tomorrow…I really don’t think that is too bad for that much work and now I don’t have to worry about it…the roofer said he checked all over the roof and the rest of the shingles are sealed up tight and he is sure this is a really new roof that will outlast me….and they must have removed the old shingles when they put these on since he said there is only one layer on it…another good thing if I ever have to have a new roof put on….so, I can enjoy the rest of my day…

Well…stayed in bed until 7 again after waking up at 5 and I’m not sure if that is sustainable or what has changed to make that the new normal…man, I need other things to think about…how about my elbow? I thought it was healing but it got worse yesterday and it now hurts all of the time and the pain has even changed to be deeper and from a different place and runs down my forearm…crap…and I think that’s all from mowing the lawn of the house next door that is empty….just got tired of looking at the two foot high weeds and got the mower out and did it….oh, and I had two shingles fall of the highest point of the roof yesterday and I’ve never seen that before…have a guy coming to look at it this afternoon and getting them replaced is not going to be cheap…but, I don’t want to even try to get that high up…just getting too damn old for that crap and with the steep pitch of the roof here, I can see just falling off the damn thing and killing myself….but, if it’s too much, my brother has offered to bring over his tall ladder and climb up there and fix it….but the last thing we need is a couple of old farts going up that high….not much to do today….just going to ease into the day and get a ride in here in a few minutes and then clean a bit and wait for the roof guy….more later…

Well…yeah, running rally late today with not even getting out of bed until 7 or so and then working on wetting down the grass seed that I put in yesterday…think I may have slept okay but don’t feel like it…just depressed again and that makes me so damn tired…oh, well…I did get two rides in again yesterday and I’m not really sore so I think I’m finally getting used to it after 1400 miles…and after changing out the rear wheel, I haven’t had a flat in a week so I guess now I need to try to figure out what the heck is wrong with the other one that was causing all the flats….but I’m not too motivated right now so maybe that will be later today…or tomorrow….I need to get out to depot to buy a new hose today since I am tired of repairing the expandable one that I’ve had a for a year or so…they are just not durable so no more of them….I am still pretty geeked at how good the garage turned out after I washed it…and I think I’ll start on the house soon since I now know that dish soap and a scrub brush works pretty well…and I need to unclog the downspout on the front of the house and figure out where the leaks are….but, right now, I just want to have coffee and read some news…one of these days I’m going to take an entire day off of everything and just do nothing….I think I’m getting to the point I need one….more later…

Well…my routine is all screwed up this morning and I’m not sure how that happened…haven’t even read the news yet and that is normally the first thing I do when I get out of bed….hmmm…slept okay last night and forced myself to stay in bed until 6:30 or so even after waking up at 5:30…I really thought my elbow was getting better last night and the swelling has gone down some but it still hurts to pick up my coffee cup and that sucks…maybe it will get better later? I need to get started on more work around here and it won’t happen until I can use my right arm….I normally take sundays off so maybe I’ll make this a rest day and see if I can help the elbow….I did get two rides in yesterday but it was darn hot and humid out here and I hope it’s going to break soon…I’m already sweating just sitting here so I will be soaked on the bike as soon as I get on it…it should be a good ride since there isn’t much wind out there yet…still trying to figure out why I’m burning through the 50 sunscreen on my face…it appears to be working everywhere else so that is a little strange…I may go back to the lotion this morning and see if it is windburn and not sunburn….we’ll see…not much to do today…need to feed and water the garden after I get back from the ride and I think I’m going to start trying to work on small bare patches in the yard and get some grass seed in and the put the sprinkler out to keep it wet….or not…I may just do one ride today and then just take it easy and watch races…yeah, that’s not going to work…have too much work to do….more later…

Well…damn, it’s 2 o’clock and I just finished up with what I had to do today and that makes it another busy one…got started at 8 with getting out on the bike for a hard ride and then back here around 9:30 and decided that the lawn looked pretty shabby even though I mowed it earlier in the week, so I mowed it, then made lunch and right back out on the bike for ride number 2…oh, and watered the garden and noticed that I have blossoms on some of my tomatoes! Have had them on my bean plants for a couple of weeks and I even have some tiny little beans on them, too, so it will be cool to watch as they mature…even though I have 8 bean plants, I don’t think it’s going to be enough but I had such problems getting the beans to sprout that I guess I’ll have to live with 8…although, I do still have beans to plant and I’m keeping my garden watered so maybe I’ll try to fill in some spaces with more of them….going to have plenty of tomatoes….too many of them probably with almost 20 plants that are looking pretty healthy but I had a lot of the flowers yellow and fall off last year so I’ll have my fingers crossed this year….and I even have 6 cuke plants that look like they are going to survive….I think I’m going to take the rest of the day off after cleaning the bathroom….there are lots of races on this afternoon so I won’t be too bored….

Well…darn…running late again today…so I wonder if I run late every day, doesn’t that make it the normal time? All I know is I’m absolutely without motivation right now and even doing this is a lot of effort…feel pretty crappy, too, and that is all my fault with having a few cocktails last night which I probably shouldn’t do…oh, well…I am going to have to figure out a better allergy med since the two I’m using really don’t work much anymore and I am completely stuffed up right now….but the ones I’ve tried really make me feel like crap and I’d rather be stuffed up than woozy all day….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I am going to have to clean today and I really should mow the lawn again since the little bit of rain we got out here along with the food I put on it has it growing fast and it looks a little shaggy even though I just mowed it wed….I really do need to clean up all of the bike parts I have strewn all over the bike room downstairs…hey, I have a bike room…that’s weird….and I need to try to figure out why I keep getting flats from the rear rim of the bike…might try to put some duct tape in there and see if that helps….not much to do today…just the bike rides and cleaning but that is not even going to start until I have lots more coffee… and read the news….more later…

Well…okay, I should hurt a lot more than I do with three hours of cleaning the garage yesterday….I really thought my elbow was going to be immobile after all the abuse but it’s no worse than it would be if I didn’t use it…weird…but, I did forget to hit the timer button on the coffee maker so I sit here with no coffee for the next 15 minutes or so and I know I don’t like it…oh,well….even with 50 sunscreen on yesterday, my face got scorched and I had to use aloe last night and it’s still screaming red today but what more can I do? That happened even with the new 50 that I got wed…I wonder if all the water and sweat washed it off? I was completely soaked through from the heat so I guess we’ll see when I get on the bike here in a few minutes and use it again….that work took so much out of me that I skipped the second bike ride yesterday but I think scrubbing for three hours used enough calories to offset it…okay, my elbow is not okay…just poured a cup of coffee and the weight of a full carafe stabbed it with pain….not much to do today…I have to clean this place up some and figure out what to cook today…I may go out to get some pork chops and tomatoes at Meijers but I probably could just take something out of the freezer and save the trip…we’ll see…more later…

Well…damn, I’m sore….after getting 15 miles in on the bike early, I decided to clean the front of the garage since it was covered with dirt and mold and looked pretty gross…so I got out the ladder and bucket with a 6 inch scrub brush and took to scrubbing the whole thing by hand…I had no plan to do the entire exterior but the front looked so good when I finished it that I just kept going and did the whole damn garage….after the first three sides, I started to feel pretty lousy with the heat  and going up and down the ladder and almost had to quit and leave the last side for another time but then I just sucked it up and finished it….the whole thing took almost 2 1/2 hours and my hands are still wrinkled from being in water so long…but I have a clean garage and can’t believe how nice it looks…and I think I’m skipping the second ride for the day…still feel pretty lousy even after having lunch…I thought that was part of hitting the wall but it doesn’t look like it….maybe some more water will help? Now I need to do the house….yow!

Well…darn, just can’t get started today but it is nice that the humidity is down a bit and there is a cool breeze blowing through here….I could get out on the bike right now but without coffee that’s not going to work….we did get some rain out here yesterday but I don’t think it was enough to green up my lawn very much with the sandy soil…may have to feed it again this week…I may have to accept that I might not get to the nice, green lawn I’m used to but that’s okay….but I have the rest of the summer to keep trying….I think I am going to have to take a day off the bike soon just to give my body a rest….I feel like I’m wearing out and I don’t think my elbow is going to heal unless I stop using it completely for a few days…yeah, I don’t know how that is going to work with everything that needs to be done around here….but, it’s healed up before so I have hope that it will again….I think I may have fixed this neighborhood…at least I have my fingers crossed that I did with all of the noise calls that I’ve made over the past 6 weeks or so…have had a full week of quiet up here and it is so nice to not hear that thump thump bullshit that permeated the place once the weather got warm…hmmmm…I think I’ve talked about this before….so I won’t anymore….not much to do today…I need to clean this place up since my son and his wife and their dog may be coming out this weekend and it really needs a once over…but, I can’t get motivated to do anything right now so I think I’ll just have more coffee and read some…I feel like a car that just won’t start…grinding on the starter with no fire….and the battery is now dead….more later…