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….
June 12th
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…
Barr and Sessions should be in jail…
Well…as the drips of information coming out about exactly how corrupt trump and his cronies were, it continues to get worse and worse…as reported by the NYT Thursday, both Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions used the justice department as trump’s vengance machine trying to get information to attack his “enemies”…but, it gets even worse…it’s not enough that Barr lied to congress about investigating people, but those people were dem members of congress like Adam Schiff who sits on the intelligence committee all the way down to his kids who Barr sent a subpoena to Apple to try to get their information…what would be the justification for that, and who the hell was the judge that approved the subpoena? This is just the start of the revelations of corruption that permeated the justice department under trump…and now the question has to be what the hell is Merrick Garland doing? Not one head has rolled for this misuse of power and many of the same investigations are still going on…why haven’t the prosecutors who lied to get these subpoenas been fired? Any and all people who supported this crap need to be rooted out and fired for violating their oath to uphold the constitution and for having no ethics…they knew this was wrong but did it anyway…and that is justification for them to be gone….geez…
June 11th
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…
Got some work done…
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!
WTF is Garland doing?
Well…boy, sure thought it would take me longer to be disappointed with Merrick Garland as AG but damn, defending the idiot trump against a defamation suit brought by Jean Carroll? I really thought that the justice department being the personal plaything of trump would go away after he did…but as of today, the department is still defending idiot boy in court and it is Garland’s decision to do that…he could, right now, end the justice department’s involvement by withdrawing from the case and letting the idiot pay for his defense…the justice department is no one’s personal law firm no matter who that person is…and trump is an EX president who is no longer in charge…so this defense should be dropped and let the chips fall…and why the hell Garland is still a part of it is beyond me….there are rules for the justice department and this must break a bunch of them…in my long lifetime I’ve never seen this kind of corruption and Garland was brought in as the guy to fix it….but he has chosen to continue it without any explanation for his actions…and we deserve an explanation….and fast…..geez…
June 10th
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…
First swim today…
Well…with testing the water temp last week, I knew it was close to being warm enough to go swimming…so today, it was so warm that I took the car out to the lake and laid in the sun a while just because I could..and the water was just warm enough to go swimming…so I did…and this is the earliest that I can remember getting in Lake Michigan…it was still pretty cold and I didn’t stay in long but I did get in and that keeps my record secure for another year…every year since I was five, I’ve gone swimming in Lake Michigan at least once a year and that’s been a long, long time….but, the one bad thing that happened today is my right elbow, that has been giving me lots of trouble, got worse today and now it is stiff along with the pain and I’m not sure what I’m going to do about it…I haven’t found a doctor out here yet and I don’t want to drive back to GR to have it looked at… so, I guess I’ll have to just suck it up and take some more ibuprofen…darn…
Joe is finally wising up…
Well…it’s nice to see that Joe Biden is finally wising up to the modern republicans and is going to go it alone to try to get his infrastructure plan passed….just yesterday he gave up trying to “negotiate” with them and I think he is finally realizing that they don’t give a damn about making American lives better, they just want to make sure he isn’t successful…no matter who it hurts. I think Joe needs to forget all of the times in the past when he could work across the aisle…back when repubs were semi sane and at least tried to look like they cared about people other than the rich….but the crazy has taken over the party and ignorance now is a badge of honor as is lying, cheating, and stealing…oh, and hate…can’t forget the hate that oozes out of every one of those slimy bastards…so, good on ya, Joe…now try to get the other Joe to listen to you and act like a dem for a change….Manchin is almost as bad s the damn repubs…geez…
June 9th
Well…darn, running late again this morning with not getting out of bed until after 7….and I feel worn out today…might have to re-think going so hard as I get older….but, if I start slowing down will that start the inevitable decline that I dread so much? Or, should I go harder and try to up my capacity? Who knows? I do know that I need a day off so I may go out to the beach later this morning after the first ride and the grocery run…..I think I’m going to try to swim soon since I saw people in the water yesterday in the fog and that was kind of cool to see….it is going to be hard to take a day off when I have so much to do around here…I think I need to unclog the gutter on the front of the house since it was overflowing in the downpour yesterday…maybe that will be the work to do today so I don’t feel guilty? That one runs under the front stairs so it will mean taking the lattice off to get to it and I’m not sure I want to do that yet….we’ll see….maybe I can just run a hose down it and see if that will work….but right now I just want to have coffee and read some news before I get going…more later…