Well…running about on time this morning after forcing myself to stay in bed until I heard the coffee maker start…slept as good as I can ever expect and I’ll let the coffee wake me up and get me going…there is a little good news that the amoxicillin is helping my eye heal up with most of the swelling down so it doesn’t look so bad…my eye is still watering some from the irritation so I’m going to do one more day of antibiotic to make sure it doesn’t rebound…I am looking forward to maybe getting a day off the bike Wednesday to get a little rest for my body that is feeling a little worse for wear with 30 miles a day becoming the new normal…I wonder how that happened? I mean, 15 miles a day should be enough for an old guy like me and I know I have the 5K goal but the compulsion to go out twice daily is a new thing that is confounding me a little…I wonder if it is trying to chase away the age that I see in the mirror every morning? If it is, it’s not working….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but gardening but I do have to get out to get some lawn food today to get it down before the storms tomorrow night and into wed…and I think I may want to mow before that but we’ll see….I do need to wash the car too, since C’s road in Mt. P is gravel and it is covered in dust…but, I may let the rain do that on the grocery run wed…it’s a little weird that I am letting little things like car washing and fooling around in the garden fill my time when I still have big work to do on the house….I guess I’m just burned out from working on it almost daily for a year…..I think I deserve a little time off to enjoy life for a bit….I am going to get to the front door this week and get it painted…and I do have to get on the membrane roof and replace the cement that has dried out to eliminate the leaks…maybe that will be this week, too? More later…

Well…got the political one in for the day but still had a few other things I wanted to talk about that are just things…not important at all but I have time so I thought I’d just go…I did get the oil changed in the car today in between the two rides I took and I had forgotten how big of a pain it is to get the filter out since you have to take it out through the top with the plastic pan under the car blocking even being able to see it…and every time I end up with scratches on my arms from snaking them down past the intake runners…but it’s done and I even cleaned up the oil that always spills from the filter boss and ends up on the ground…it is nice to have 50+ psi at idle again…and it looks like I did get a couple of the last green pepper seeds to sprout, finally and I can get them planted next week so I’ll actually have a few of those to go along with the jalapenos that are blooming all over the place…and I may even get some tomatoes out of the many, many plants that I have going..but, I’m not sure about that with the withering of lots of the blossoms on the celebrations…my beans have even stated to look like they may be blooming, too so I guess I need to stop stressing out about every damn plant….after all, gardening is supposed to be relaxing but I think I’ve made it a competition with myself just like everything else and that is not healthy…but the brute force method I used on everything has left me with 19 sunflowers along the fence that are going to be a sight to see when they start to bloom….so, I guess I need to relax some, huh? Okay, I will…taking the rest of the day off to just veg and watch the race…and I hope to get a nap in since it is napcar after all….

Well…normal time for a Sunday and I’m not sure why I’m depressed this morning…it appears that with the start of re-opening of the state, everyone has jumped to doing whatever they damn well please…no masks anymore and people at the zoo yesterday were jam packed into large groups and maskless, too…so I guess the three months we spent isolating and protecting ourselves is just being thrown away and now we wait for the second wave that is going to be worse than the first….bars open at 50% capacity Monday so I guess that’s something…I did get a good week of rides in last week with 250 miles in and if I can keep that up, I may just be able to get to 5K for the year…will break 2K this week if the weather will cooperate…supposed to rain a few days but if it’s warm enough I’ll go out in the rain…it’s a little cool right now but I’ll be out here in a few minutes do I can get the second ride in before lunch….I need to change the oil in the car today but I need to check to see if I have some blue silicone left to make the gasket for the drain plug so it won’t leak….if not, I’ll run out tomorrow and get some and do it then…I do need to get planning the rest of the outdoor work here and do the front door too but I just don’t feel motivated again today….that is starting to become a problem but I’m not worried too much yet…I’ve done enough work over the past 6 months to last a year and I am tired….more later…

Well…man, just can’t get started this morning…stayed up late to see if that would help trying to sleep but all that did was get me started to sleep later and got up at the same time that I normally do…so, that didn’t work…but, I think the amoxicillin is starting to work on my eye infection since it seems to be less inflamed this morning…this one has been annoying with it itching every time I blink….I did get two rides in yesterday even after the long ride on Thursday and my legs were just a little flat…much less than I expected and that was a little bit of good news…but, I haven’t been eating enough to support all of the extra miles and I need to figure that out today before I end up flat on the couch and exhausted…I think the new lube on the bike chain is working quite well since it is still silent after over 100 miles…and I think I’m going to test out how long I can go before I have to re-apply it…the bike seems much smoother when I ride and I’ll take it…didn’t get much done but gardening yesterday and I think I’m just going to give up and take the weekend off from beating myself up about it….I did get the first blossoms on my jalapenos and it looks like some of the beans are heading that way, too and that is pretty cool…and I found out how to tell when the garlic will be ready so I’ll have to take a look at those plants later today….still no hummingbirds on the new feeder yet but it’s only been a couple of days so I need to be patient…but, I may have to change out the food since it is only supposed to last a week or so before it goes bad…not much to do today…just going to ride and watch races later and if I get a little motivation I may clean a some but who knows? More later…

Well…I just don’t get it…67 miles yesterday and my legs don’t feel it at all…my ribs still hurt and the infection in my eye lid is worse but my legs are okay….but, I am exhausted this morning and I’m sure it’s the excess miles that is at fault…you would think that riding that much would make me tired and able to sleep better but no such luck…still tossed and turned all night and feel pretty worn out and I only have third day coffee to have this morning and I’m pretty sure that won’t be enough….oh, happy birthday, Tom….didn’t want to forget that….didn’t get much done yesterday but run an errand and mow the lawn but I am going to try to work on the front door to get it ready for painting today…but, I’m not too motivated right now and may just take the day off after getting a ride or two in….I did start taking some amoxicillin to see if that will help with the eye infection and I hope something will help…it’s damn annoying to have your eyelid puffed up and scratchy every time you blink….I am getting some results in the garden with blossoms on some tomato plants and even on one of my jalapeno plants, too…and I have potatoes that have come up from the eyes that I planted a week or so ago…have never grown potatoes before and that should be good for a laugh….not much to do today….I may just take it easy and putter around here after the rides…I do have laundry to do later and should clean the kitchen but we’ll see…need a lot more motivation if that’s going to happen…more later…

Well…if you’ve been here a while and read about some of the things I do to myself for no reason, really…you won’t be too surprised about what I did to myself today…got out on the bike really early today and it felt pretty good…or not as bad as I expected so I decided to get out for another ride after having some more coffee and got that one done by around 9 or so…after that ride, and knowing that I already had 35 miles in, I decided to make this a day where I tried to do a long almost record day on the bike….and that led me to riding 66.8 miles today and that is a long way to most people…and the thought hit me that I may be able to break my 105 mile record for a day…but, on the last lap, everything started to give out and my legs and lungs both started screaming at me so I though that it would probably be  a good idea to stop before I did some permanent damage to myself…it is going to be interesting to see how much I’m going to hurt tomorrow…feel okay right now but I will take some ibuprofen later today to try to get out in front of it…yeah, I don’t know why I do it…it’s probably trying to prove that I’m not becoming old and decrepit….or that I’m bored…not sure…

Well…made it all the way to 6 this morning but with enough tossing and turning that I hurt my ribs again…just sitting still here hurts like crazy but ibuprofen did help yesterday so I think I’ll take some before I get on the bike here in a few minutes…I did get a hummingbird feeder yesterday and it looks like a hot air balloon with hand painted glass for the food container…and it was only 12 bucks but I’m not sure if I’ll get any birds to it…it did take the sparrows almost 3 weeks to find the seed feeder that I put out last fall so I guess I need to be patient…and this one even has little perches that the birds can land on so they don’t have to hover to feed….I finally got the super teflon lube for the bike that I have been waiitng for for a month and got the chain cleaned and lubed since it had to dry overnight…and it won’t leave the sticky black residue that the oil I was using did….I am a little excited to see if it will work as advertised since the chain was making noise as I let it dry out over the past week or so…didn’t get anything done yesterday other than screw around with the garden but I need to get after the front door and get it sanded so I can paint it…but, with my ribs still hurting, I’m not sure if I can handle my angle grinder to smooth out the paint chips…we’ll see…I do think I may have gone overboard with my gardens with all of the stuff that I have in them…I really don’t know how many beans are going to come off one plant and with having 6 of them growing, I may have way too many…cripes I could turn into a vegetarian this summer to use them all….oh, and the potato pieces I planted just came up yesterday so I’m going to have potatoes, too…more later…

Well…running a little late again this morning and, again, there is no reason for it other than I had to read the news to see what happened overnight…there is a little good news in that my eye appears to be healing some but there is bad news that my ribs aren’t….still hurts to just sit here and do this so I do need to take some ibuprofen before the grocery run today….other than that, I don’t feel too bad this morning…I almost fell into the 3 rides mistake yesterday since I had the second one done before lunch but sanity, what little of it I have, prevailed and I realized I’m not young anymore and that 45 miles in a day could do some real damage to this old body that I inhabit….I did get some gardening done yesterday and have all of the plants out that I had started downstairs…if they all live, everyone I know is going to be tired of getting free produce starting in August…might have to put a table out in the front yard with “free” on it to make sure it doesn’t go to waste…and, I am going to can some of the beans, peppers, and tomatoes since I have quart jars and the pressure cooker to use so I’ll be moving lots of jars when I find a house to buy….going to make my own tomato sauce too, just to try something new…and salsa…I wonder if you can can that? Not much to do today…just the grocery run and then out for the rides…I’m taking a little time off heavy work around here to try to let the ribs heal but I’ll be back at it early next week…I hope….more later….

Well…damn…my ribs hurt again today after nothing at all yesterday afternoon and that resulted in a 5:01 morning this morning….and my damn eyelid infection is driving me nuts…I get one of those about once a year and it takes a couple of weeks to heal it but it is so damn annoying while I wait…okay, not going to bitch anymore today…had a nice afternoon yesterday with T coming over for a chat and a tour of the house….she’s was only the second person to see the house with the majority of it done and it made me feel good that she recognized how much work has been done by this old guy…I did get the rest of my sprouted veggies planted yesterday and T laughed about how many tomato plants I have…but I had to brute force plant since I have been losing quite a few to some damn animal and to the clay in the soil that I didn’t condition enough before planting…I do hope I can get some more green peppers to sprout since I only have two that have survived and they aren’t looking too good…cripes…just started sneezing from allergies and that hurts the ribs like crazy….will probably need to take something for it today with the “pollen bomb” that has been blaring over the news happens after the wet weather we had last week….not much to do today…going to get out on the bike here in a few minutes since it is already almost 70 outside at 6:17 but I have all day so I think I may relax a little first and have more coffee….it seems like I’m always in a hurry when I really have no place to be and little to do….need to work on that…I may just take a week off here and just enjoy what I’ve done so far…might even lay out in the sun to start to even out the biker’s tan…I have beer and that might be a thing for taking it easy….more later….

Well…running late this morning and it’s because I just can’t get going…don’t feel all that bad but just have no energy…and I’m on the first cup of coffee and that doesn’t help either….slept okay…for me last night but was still up before 6 and that is getting old…okay, that’s enough of the whining…have been down a little lately but I am going to stop that today….I think I did save a couple of sunflowers that had been knocked over yesterday by putting up some support sticks and tying them to the sticks…we’ll see….and I got the rest of the cherry tomatoes planted and will do all of the rest of the stuff that is downstairs today….I think I just need to give up and go with whatever plants survive…I did get my new hose yesterday and now I have enough to reach the entire yard but that was an ordeal….I had to play Amazon delivery guy since the one who delivered here mixed up the address here and across the street but I was able to just trade the packages so that worked out…and my bike lube is coming wed so I can get everything lubed up and stop using the oil that makes a mess…didn’t get much else done yesterday other than the bike rides and cleaning but I do have a nice clean house and that make me happy…I do have to start planning the rest of the outdoor work on the house so I can finish it up this month….but not today…I am going to just do garden work today after the first bike ride but that won’t happen until after 9…it needs to warm up some before I I head out since it is still in the 40’s and I don’t want to be cold anymore….more later…