Well…I just can’t believe this weather…so cold that I had my heat running all day and night yesterday and now we have a freeze warning for tonight? I really don’t have anything big enough to cover my garden so I think I’ll just chance leaving it alone overnight….and the weather says it is only supposed to get down to 39 tonight so I wonder why the freeze warning? Hmmm…at least I got two rides in today so I can have two meals….I did have to wear a fleece for the first ride and the wind was blowing with me on the way out so I could go full speed in 24th until I made the turn up the hill to the beach….and no flat today so I may have fixed the problem with the spoke end cover band that caused the last flat….my allergies are just atrocious today and I have a stuffed up head and a slight headache but I do need to wait to take something until later today since I just tried some flonase spray to see if that would help but I really can’t tell the difference so I guess not….yeah, you guessed it, this one is to replace a political one for today that I just can’t get outraged enough to do…and I don’t have a topic yet so maybe later?

Well…damn, it’s only 40 degrees outside and I think that may be a record low for May in Michigan and that will keep me off the bike until much later in the day…and yeah, I’m running late today with not getting up til almost 7…and the question I have is “when did getting up at 7 become sleeping in?”…sleeping in used to be 9 or 10 o’clock when I was younger but not now…oh, well…I think I slept okay last night with only waking up once but I still feel slow with the damn allergies so bad…oh, and I had a couple of cocktails last night, too, and that doesn’t help….didn’t get out on the bike yesterday and I actually had two meals so I feel pretty guilty for doing that today….had a burger and a bean burrito for the meals and that is too much when I don’t ride…it’s kind of weird that I didn’t even leave the house at all yesterday….didn’t even put the trash out that needs to be done but I’ll do that here in a few minutes….I did clean this place up and start to get it organized and it looks pretty good but I need to do the bathroom this morning since it is too darn cold to ride…and it won’t be warm enough until around 11 but will still have to put a fleece on to get out….not much to do today….just more cleaning and waiting to see if my son is coming out today and that will take up the day…..and I think I’m going to make tacos for one meal today….more later….

Well…running a little late today with just refusing to get out of bed until 6:30 or so…and I feel pretty slow with the damn allergies flaring like crazy today…and that is just a continuation of how bad they’ve been…something out at the beach whacked me yesterday and I couldn’t stop coughing…it was so bad I had to stop the bike and drink some water to get it to stop…I think I need to find a better allergy medicine if it’s going to be like this all the time….it was pretty funny yesterday when I saw a car from channel 13 sitting at the beach and then seeing the report from the beach on the news last night…and I never watch the local news so I’m not sure why I did yesterday….not sure if I’m going to get a ride in today with it being so cold the heat has been on all night and the wind blowing like crazy…it is supposed to be blowing from 15-25 mph all day with gusts of up to 40 so that will keep me in…but, I need to clean this place up with my son and his wife and their dog coming out to hang for a while this weekend….damn, my right elbow really hurts today as it did yesterday…so much pain that I could barely lift my water glass….squeezing anything with my right hand sets it off and it’s been years since it’s been this bad…and I don’t have a clue how I hurt it….oh, well….just getting old I guess….more later….

Well…it’s still under 50 degrees out here so I thought I’d talk about something that is a little strange living on the coast of Lake Michigan….almost every day, there is a weather advisory out here that pops up on the weather app that I use on both my phone and tablet….back in GR, you’d get severe thunderstorm watches and warnings along with the same for tornados, but they didn’t happen every day…but out here we get some new ones that I hadn’t seen before…there are always small craft advisories for the coastline when the wind blows at all…and that is every day…but a new one came up today that made me think of doing this one….we are under a gale watch out here today for the entire coast line from South Haven to Manistee….with the possibility of steady winds of 35 mph plus that will start later in the day…and they warn people to make sure their boats are tied up properly and that any items in yards such as umbrellas and patio furniture are properly secured…now, what the heck does that mean? I can understand taking an umbrella down and putting it in the garage or basement…but how do you secure the rest of the set? Do people have tie downs like small aircraft? Back in GR, when a warning came up it was pretty serious but out here it looks like they warn about everything…I guess if I had a boat it would be of use but, if you don’t, who cares about small craft advisories? Okay, this is just an observation and I guess there are lots of people with boats out here that can use the info….just not used to this new normal yet….

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…

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….

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…

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….

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…

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…