Well…hey, it’s Sunday and I remembered to come here! You know it’s not normal I remember it so I’ll take that as a win….slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning other than the new pains from spending 5 hours on the downstairs project yesterday…my hands hurt the most but my right shoulder is bad too…I should probably take something for it but I’ll need to think about that for a while…didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with it being so cold in the morning and then raining when I was getting ready to go….and it’s raining again this morning so it looks like it will be only one ride today after Man U plays at 11:30….but this week looks perfect for getting two a days in so I will get to 5K later in the week…I can’t wait for my allergies to get better and working downstairs  didn’t help at all…my eyes are scratchy and my head is all plugged up and I am getting tired of it…went through almost half a box of allergy meds over the past three weeks and won’t be able to get more for another month so I need to cut back on those and just live with it I guess…not much to do today…I do need to clean up some buckets that I had plants in outside and but that will have to wait a while until the rain stops…it looks like we may get frost tonight so I’ll lose the rest of my tomatoes and peppers if it does…but my back yard is higher that the surrounding lots so I may be okay…won’t take long to clean up both gardens but it will fill my trash container so I’ll put that out later in the week….more later

Well…I think I like this staying in bed until 6 and easing into getting up….used to just jump out of bed first time I woke up…but I used to not be able to go back to sleep either but that has changed too…and I don’t feel too bad this morning, either but my allergies are off the charts so I may have to take something for it this morning…I did get a bunch of work done in the gardens yesterday and that will continue downstairs this morning…I hope it didn’t get cold enough last night to kill off my pepper plants and the rest of my tomatoes…I am still getting a few tomatoes off them and may get more with the warmer weather that is coming next week…but I’m okay if they have to come out…have gotten a lot of stuff off them and I think I’m getting tired of tomatoes…I did get out to get a ride in yesterday but only one…didn’t have enough time to work on the gardens and get out for a second one and that will be the same today…won’t be warm enough to go out in shorts until the afternoon and I do have work to do this morning anyway….I will get down to only 100 miles left today so I should get to 5K by the end of next week and then I can gradually slow down for the rest of the year and not feel so stressed about doing two rides a day….not much to do today…have another day of ease for this morning but I do need to work downstairs for a couple of hours and that job is going to go on for a few days….more later…

Well…I wonder if running late is going to be the new normal here…or will that make it not late? Too much to think about first thing before event the first cup of coffee….slept okay last night but had dreams about dropping my phone and breaking it all night and that is weird…I wonder if it’s because this phone has worked for so many years? Yeah, not going to delve into my mind right now…it’s scary in there sometimes and that’s too much work for any morning…I did get out and get a ride in yesterday but got soaked coming back…was cold most of the day from it and even the full winter indoor clothes didn’t help much…and it’s only 37 out there right now so I won’t be getting out today until after noon when it warms up some….I’m down to only 135 miles left to go so I guess I can do a couple of one ride days and still make my goal….I think this cold is going to end the gardens so I need to get out and pick the last of the pink tomatoes today since it is going to be colder tomorrow….still hoping to have my green peppers finish since I have half a dozen that are growing out there…would be nice to add them to the freezer along with the jalapenos…I did get my ballot filled out yesterday and I am going to drop it over at the library today…they pick them up from the drop boxes 3 times a day so I think that will be safe….not much to do today…it’s weird to have an entire morning to myself so I think I’ll continue the cleaning I started downstairs yesterday and get started getting rid of stuff I don’t need….and look for houses all day since that is my new full time job….more later….

Well…as you can see, I’m running pretty late this morning and it is all because I refused to get out of bed until 6:30 even though I woke up before 5…and it is a little cold in here…the furnace came on overnight and I am sitting here in my winter indoor clothes just to tolerate it and I am sure not ready for it to get cold….I’m even going to wait to go out on the bike until 10 or so when it will be 50 degrees since I just don’t want to pull out the thermasuit yet…want a few more ride in shorts before I give in but that will mean probably only one ride for a few days…so, I have to start cutting out calories again and need to figure out how to stop eating one ride’s worth or about 600 calories a day…looks like no more bagels after this week and I am going to miss them…oh, well….I did get both my fridges cleaned yesterday and they sure needed it especially downstairs since I hadn’t cleaned that one since I moved in here…now that I think of it, I didn’t even clean it before I moved in…so it really needed to be torn down and scrubbed….not sure what I need to do today…haven’t really thought about it but I do know I’m getting my ballot in since I did the research I needed over the past few days…but right now I am going to have more coffee and read the news first….more later….

Well…it seems that I have fallen into a pattern with my sleep over the past week or so…up at 4:30 and then back to bed until 6 or so…not sure if that is a good thing or not but at least I’m getting 5 hours or so and that is about normal for me…but that does leave me a little worn out most days but I guess that’s normal too….got a few things done yesterday along with the two bike rides but I was really looking forward to the rain allowing me to take a day off to rest my legs today…but, I don’t see any rain on the radar so my next decision is whether to get on the bike before I head out for the grocery run or to wait until I get back…it’s warm enough at 52 degrees but I just don’t have any motivation yet and getting wet at now 51 degrees is not too pleasant…so I may just drink coffee and read the news instead of rushing out there…I just cleaned the bike and really don’t want to get it mucked up again…I know I will at some point but I only have about 160 miles to go to get to my goal so maybe I’ll wait and hope for rain….not much to do today…I am going to clean some today and defrost the upstairs fridge if it rains…if not, I’m going to get two rides in and then clean….more later…

Well…running a little late today and I just can’t get started…and my arm is sore from getting my flu shot yesterday…but, that’s pretty normal for me…the cool thing is that it didn’t cost me anything…no copay or anything and now I wait for the immunity to build for a few weeks…sure hope the flu doesn’t come around before then…just saw a poll that said that 60% of Americans won’t get a flu shot this year and I just can’t figure that out…I wonder if it has something to do with the idiot trump denigrating the CDC and trying to force a covid vaccine before it’s ready….it probably doesn’t help to have his lying toadies in charge of the health system here…okay…political stuff is supposed to be for other posts so I’ll stop that now….I did get the bathroom faucet repaired yesterday too, it is a bit of a pain to work on a house where nothing has been serviced for 40 years and getting the old cartridge out and the new one in took more hammering than I like to do on old fixtures…but, it doesn’t leak and works nice and smoothly now so I guess the work was worth it…and it only cost 16 bucks so I can live with that…it looks like I’ll be taking the gardens out in the next week or so with the temps getting down into the 30’s overnight…it a shame that I just started to get green peppers on my plants and I have so many tomatoes that haven’t ripened…but I do have a stock of jalapenos in the freezer for use over the winter so that is cool….no much to do today…only got one ride in yesterday with the rain…even got wet on the way back but today looks like it will be a two ride day…I’m in the last 200 miles and need to keep going to make it to 5K….more later…..

Well…yep, I hurt everywhere this morning and it kind of nice to know why for a change…but the strange thing is my arms hurt more than my legs do but they were bad during the ride with cramps so I guess that’s to be expected….I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get up at 3:54….got all the way til almost 5 and then back to sleep until after 6 so I’ll consider that a good night…it’s raining right now so I may be taking today off the bike or at least waiting til later to go….the radar shows that there are breaks in the rain coming so maybe I’ll be able to get on in at some time…that will give me the excuse to go out to depot and get a new cartridge for the bathroom sink…it is really stiff and leaks unless I leave it in exactly the right spot and that annoys the heck out of me….I may get a flu shot today too, I can get one at target for 5 bucks so I should get that done soon….it was nice not getting the flu last year but with all of the precautions we take for covid, I wonder if it’s necessary? I guess 5 bucks is not a bad cost for a little protection. Not much to do today….I think I’ll just ease into the day and have some more coffee right now before I get started…should do some more cleaning if I can’t ride…should do it anyway I guess….more later….

Well…this morning when I got on the bike, I looked at the computer and saw that I only had 46 miles to go to get to 4800 miles and, you know what comes next, I decided to do the 46 miles in one ride and got started…after 40 miles, my legs gave up and I hurt frickin everywhere so I cut the ride short and came home…the thing is, you would think that 40 miles would be enough and there shouldn’t be any guilt from not reaching my initial goal…but, that’s not me…I’ve been sitting here thinking if I should go back out and do another 20 to make up for it…but I’m resisting it after hobbling out to take care of the gardens and feeling the pain in my legs that is everywhere from my hips down to my feet…I guess I have to realize that I’m not young anymore..and I did do 34 miles in one ride yesterday so maybe that’s enough to make the guilt go away? It should…but who knows?

Well…hey, I remembered to come here on a Sunday morning for a change…not sure what it is about Sunday but it is always a little hard to remember to do one of these…I wonder if it is reading the physical newspaper? Slept okay last night and I’m not as sore as I expected…I guess my body doesn’t care if I have a break between my two rides or not….my thighs are sore but it just feels like normal so that frees me up to change up what I do with my rides…will probably do another long one today but who knows? I did get the inside of the windows cleaned yesterday…or the new windows, haven’t done any of the original ones yet but that seems like a good project for this afternoon…had the top down on the car for the last time on the run out to get the paper today since the weather is going to change this week and we will be in a fall pattern from now on…some lows are going to be in the 30’s this week and it feels good to know that the furnace here works since it turned on last week and ran fine…one cool thing that happened yesterday was I got an e-mail from the city clerk that my absentee ballot is on the way and I can track it online if I want…so, it should be here in a couple of days and I can fill it out and drop it off at the drop box at the library over on Leonard….not much to do today…just the ride and cleaning some and I may try my new clippers and give myself a haircut….just screwing around mostly…more later….

Well…today was really a weird ride on the bike that I never do…usually, I just do the 18 mile ride, come back here to rest a bit, then get back on it for another 14 miles. But today, after the 15 mile mark, the prospect of riding back here and doing the normal routine didn’t appeal to me at all so I just kept going…trying out new trails and new directions to ride the same trails until I got to 34 miles and was pretty sore…my thighs anyway. I’ve ridden that many miles at a time many times but I’m not sure why I did it today…it just seemed like fun to wander around on the bike and keep choosing trails that went away from here instead of back…I still went as hard as I could for the whole time and I am waiting for my legs to start howling at me…they are a little stiff but the pain is not too bad so it appears I didn’t do any permanent damage…but, that doesn’t usually show up til two days later so I guess Monday will be interesting….probably had more fun on the bike today than I’ve had in a long time…maybe I’ll make 30 in one trip the new normal? It sure freed up my afternoon and I used that to do the rest of the windows and it’s only 2…what the heck am I going to do the rest of the day?