Well…that was some pretty extreme weather last night that is continuing this morning,,,8 inches of snow overnight with 8 more coming today with lots of wind and drifting…and the power was off for more than 4 hours last night that I coped with well after Tom reminded me I had a light in my booster box for the car and I used that to be able to read and keep myself from getting too bored…and I now know that the kitchen stove will keep this place from freezing…didn’t even have to run all four burners on the range top to keep it over 60 in here…but I prefer having power…going to try out the new boots when I go out to shovel the snow later this morning after I get the bike rides in…bought a 10 pound ham for 8 bucks yesterday and I’m going to make that later today and then I’ll have food for the next week or so…I really don’t like having my routine disrupted and I think it’s going to take all day to relax back into it…didn’t sleep for crap last night and went to bed late, up at three, and then out of bed at 5:30…so I’m going to try to take a nap this aft…probably won’t work but I’ll give it a try…not much to do today…it looks like a three shovel day after three rides that will get me down to only 200 miles left for the year…I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday with just a bowl of soup and then a chicken leg quarter for dinner…so I’ll have to do better today…it sure is comforting to have the furnace come on…more later….

Well…we are under a winter storm warning…again…with the possibility of 8 inches of snow with winds blowing up to 40 mph…so I ran out to Meijers to get everything I need to get through til next week Monday and the doctor’s appointment…won’t be able to get the car out until then since they are not plowing the alleys…I did stumble on a sale on Skechers winter boots there and got a pair of 95 dollar boots for 65 bucks and got a coupon for 10 bucks off next weeks grocery run so that makes them only 55 bucks and that is a steal…haven’t had a pair of winter boots in a long time and these are insulated and waterproof with memory foam and are so damn comfortable…for some reason, I walked down the shoe aisles with no plan to buy boots today but I’m happy I did…one less thing to do..oh, and these are leather boots, too, so I’ll probably never have to buy another pair…now I can go out to shovel the snow and not freeze my feet off…and I put the bird feeder up and I’ll bet the first birds will be doves just like last year…but damn, I spent 135 bucks at Meijers today…yow!

Well…damn, I need to get moving right now and that’s harder than it looks…it appears that we have a winter storm coming in  with 8-10 inches of snow and that means I need to run an errand before the snow starts to hunker down and not go anywhere until the doctor’s appointment Monday…the wind has already started to howl out here and it must be blowing 30mph….oh, well…I did get the downstairs bike cleaned up yesterday but still have some cobwebs to remove and to clean the rest of the basement……I do want to get the bird feeder up this weekend with all of the snow so I’ll need to get some more bird food today….have been feeling pretty worn out the past week or so and it has to be allergies still….my head feels like it’s full of concrete and I’ve had a low grade headache to go with it and I’m really tired of it…still pretty freaked out about my blood pressure and it looks like I’ll have to take medicine for it…have been lucky to not have to take anything until now but I would still like to know what has changed…or if it’s just getting old…because I am getting old after all….not much to do today…just the errand after the first ride and some cleaning…I did make potato soup yesterday but I’m not sure what the second meal will be today…maybe some pasta? Who knows…more later…

Well…man, I don’t know how the heck I always have so much to do but that seems to be every darn day…like today…3 rides in that I finished at 11am, then straight into making potato soup and went out to shovel the walks and the alley while the veggies cooked so I can get my car out later in the week…then made the ruax  and thickened the milk to finished the soup…had lunch and did the weight work and now I’m almost done for the day at 2:40pm…but I should go down and clean the bike room with all of the dust that has accumulated on the indoor bike…I started to lubricate it yesterday and need to finish that, too…and I need to make dinner for today, too…and that will take some time since I’m making chicken and roasted potatoes to try to use up the 6 pounds of potatoes I got last week for two bucks…but I also want to read some but I guess that will have to wait til after dinner…oh, and there is some soccer I want to watch but don’t have time for it…oh, well…

Well…darn…we got a few more inches of snow out here last night and I really hope it’s not the pattern for the winter setting up…we do have a warm up coming over the weekend and it looks like into the 40′s and then settling into upper 30′s for highs for most of December and I can live with that…going to put the bird feeder up this weekend when it will be warm enough for the suction cups to grab the window…and the doves have already been looking for the feeder so I need to get it done….I do have to cook today with all of the leftovers gone so it looks like a day for making some potato soup and cooking some chicken leg quarters that I took out of the freezer the other day…it will be nice to not have turkey for a change…now I’m waiting for the ham for the holidays to go one sale next week….will be eating out of the freezer for the next couple of weeks and need to make the turkey soup over the weekend to get some room in there and I need to remember that I have ham bones for soup in there, too…that I will be adding to…even bought some more containers so I’ll have enough for at least two each of turkey and ham going in the freezer…not much to do today…need to get on the bike in a few minutes to get three rides in and get to the soup for lunch…will need to get to the weights since I skipped them yesterday…just forgot but I won’t today….more later…

Well…after getting nothing but 200 Bp readings on the new B
P machine, and having an appointment to calibrate it next Monday morning, I had to order a better one today…but to get it here before Monday, I had to sign up for the free 30 day trial of Prime and then it will be here Friday for no shipping charges…just have to remember to cancel it before they charge me the 139 bucks it costs…I may just take advantage of it for the next month and order stuff that I could use like food since there is no 35 buck minimum order to get free shipping…so I’ll start looking tomorrow for stuff that I am going to buy anyway…and the new BP machine normally goes for 49 bucks and I got it for 27 on sale, only 5 bucks more than the first one…and this one comes with bluetooth and an app that graphs the readings and gives you trends, etc…now I just need to figure out how to return the other one since I’ve never returned anything to Amazon in all the years I’ve been buying from them…

Well…with the winter storm watch and gale warning we are under, I decided to go out and do the grocery run today since the streets are almost clear and we may get 3-5 inches overnight…going to make some kind of soup tomorrow…either turkey or potato and today I remembered to pick up the wide egg noodles I need for the turkey…but that will probably wait til Wed…I did get the rides in downstairs and I’m down to 274 miles to go…even though I’m still drinking coffee with not getting them done until almost 2:30 and I can’t keep that up…I don’t think I’ve ever bought so many vegetables for so long in my life…have been buying a stalk of celery, 2 pounds of carrots, and a head of cauliflower from aldis every week and have been cutting them up to snack on or for soups…just refilled the cut containers of all three and this bag of carrots has the biggest damn carrots I’ve ever seen…I mean over a foot long and 4 inches in diameter? Okay…I really do want to read some this aft so I’ll stop here…I do need to clean up the indoor bike but that will be tomorrow…

Well…man, I feel like crap this morning and it’s going to be a struggle to get started as I pour the coffee down for a jump start…one of these days I’m going to just not do anything but not today…need to get on the bike by 7:30 and I may run out for groceries so I can make soup in the next couple of days…really don’t want to drive the car in the snow but I don’t think that is avoidable…didn’t get much done yesterday other than laundry but with that done, I don’t have much to do today but I feel like I should do something but don’t know what that would be yet…I really do wish that I could do what other people do and just take it easy and do nothing…maybe watch old movies and drink coffee but I’m just not wired that way and that sucks…oh, well…I do want to get the bird feeder up on the window in the next few days to give them something to eat with the snow covering everything…maybe that would be a project if it gets above freezing so the suction cups will attach…not much to do today…have 15 minutes before I need to get on the bike for 24 more miles today and that is really getting wearing…man, I’m feeling old today…more later…

Well…the new BP machine came today and I think it’s not working right since it has read my BP of over 200 and it’s never been that high ever…so I’ll take it into my doctor’s office in a coupe of weeks to calibrate it and see if I’m doing something wrong…yeah, I know it’s not that since this is the third one I’ve had and they are really easy to use…oh, well…I did get the new set of Betron reserve earbuds and I like the new ones better than the old ones…they sound great and have black anodized fittings that look pretty cool…I did get outdoors to shovel the snow today and I may have to do the grocery run tomorrow with the winter storm watch we have on starting tomorrow afternoon and lasting a few days…and I want to make turkey soup in the instant pot but don’t have any noodles…have everything else but I do need to hit aldis, too, since I am trying to get into eating veggies for snacks with ranch…not much ranch…but it’s funny when I lay out the cut up celery, carrots, and cauliflower in containers here on the couch to start my nights…and even with ranch, it is still a lot better for me than pretzels…I did get 24 miles in this morning and that puts me under 300 miles to go and I’ll keep trudging forward…okay need to get the veggies ready…

Well…it looks like it’s going to be another cold day today with the temp just barely to 30…and I am still cold from doing 3 rides downstairs where I have most of the heat turned off…no need to heat it to 66 like up here…298 miles left to go and a full month to do it so it looks like an anti climatic end to the riding this year…should get there with a couple of weeks to spare….just put the laundry in the dryer and that is really all I planned to do today…I did finish “Ringworld” last night and I’m going to start “Ringworld Engineers” this afternoon…didn’t remember the book at all it’s been so long since I read it for the first time…have read all of the first tier books I got at the sale so I’ll start looking at the nice to have ones to find something to read…okay…need to put the heating pad on and get ready to suit up to clear the walks after the race…