Well…as this summer goes on, I’m seeing more and more stories about the danger that the US food supply is under from climate change and the idiot’s deportation policies…there is a diary up at Kos where a woman in northern Ohio looks over at her neighbors corn field across the street every day and sees no ears even with the corn 8 feet tall…and then she describes the strange weather that started in the spring and makes the connection to the sterile plants…then she talks about an orchard in her area that had been run by the same family for over 100 years but this year trump and his ICE thugs ran all of the people off who did the harvesting for them…so they went broke and lost the farm where they grew apples, pears, and berries and the land is now being parceled out for lots to build houses…and the thing is, once these orchards and farms are gone they never come back…cripes I’m already seeing the effect of these farm losses here in Michigan…when the sweet corn harvest happened you could get a dozen ears for a buck but now it’s 5 for two bucks and heading higher…and with the loss of cattle ranches, the sky high cost of beef is going to go up and up and up…and these are racist policy decisions by idiot boy and his minions…and the sad thing is most of these farmers voted for trump and they would still vote for him again…morons…geez…
Two years…
Well…this is the event I wanted to note today…it’s the 2nd anniversary of my cancer surgery and becoming cancer free and I really don’t think the outcome could have been better…no after effects and no follow up treatment and I think I can stop holding my breath every time I have a PSA test…many other survivors commenting on my anniversary over on Mastodon and that’s pretty cool…so, yay!
July 27th
Well…I am darn tired of getting going…every damn day I have to drag my ass out and get going on the bike or to the grocery store and I have less than 45 minutes before I need to get on the bike and I need to spray it off to get the shifters working again after riding in the rain yesterday…and it’s going to be almost 90 for the next few days and the temp and humidity is just wearing me out…it’s the two year anniversary of a significant event today but I’ll talk about that later…I do need to make Masala today and that seems like a lot of work right now…I do need to get the bike rides in before 9 when the F1 race from Spa is on…just so damn tired…but I’m going to suck it up and get moving as soon as it gets light…I did run out of books yesterday and I face the real possibility that there won’t be any new ones to read and I don’t know how I’m going to deal with that…I’ve had a book going for over 6 months now and it has kept boredom at bay but now it’s going to come back…everything I wore in the rain yesterday is still wet and that is going to suck when I get going here in 20 minutes or so…living is just so much work….more later…
Got wet today…
Well…after I got the first ride in dry this morning, it started to rain like crazy about a half mile out during the 2nd ride but I just kept going and it rained like crazy the entire ride…can remember being that wet on the bike in a long time and I didn’t even have my rain gear on…my shoes were squishy when I got back and I don’t think they will be dry enough to use tomorrow…or I will use them but won’t like it…had to put my mp3 player inside the waterproof bag cover or it probably would have stopped working…I think I could describe the amount of rain as a “gullywasher” and there were huge puddles everywhere but I didn’t even attempt to avoid them I was so wet….so now I’m taking the rest of the day off…making Masala tomorrow but I think I may have to much food going with pasta salad and potato salad in the fridge and I bought breakfast food of eggs and sausage this week, too…oh, well…
200 million for golf?
Well…I know I’ve talked about this before but it still pisses me off so I’ll do another one…since the idiot trump came into office, he has spent 200 million dollars of our tax money so he can go play golf and the repubs are just okay with that…even while they gut Medicaid and food stamps saying we can’t afford those two programs anymore…I’ll bet 200 million bucks could give thousands of people health insurance…or feed people that will be going hungry or starving to death…you would think if there is enough money for a quarter of a billion dollars for golf, there would be money for taking care of Americans…but the only American idiot boy cares about is himself so this is what you get when you have an entire party of hateful, racist assholes supporting the racist asshole in chief….geez…
July 26th
Well..feel pretty crappy today and I think it’s a continuation of how I felt yesterday…this heat and humidity is really taking a lot out of me and the rain that was forecast is missing to the south…as always…and I don’t think it’s ever going to rain again…so I’ll be out on the bike after the F1 sprint race from Spa and at least one more cup of coffee….I did sleep okay last night and made it though until 5:37 and I’ll take that after getting up around 3 for a couple of days…the humidity is still over 90% and I can feel it just sitting here so I’ll be soaked again after the rides…made coffee with ground beans this morning and I’m still working on the first bag I bought months ago…and I’m really not sure how it tastes since I really can’t taste anything…not sure what the meals are going to be today but I know I have pasta and potato salad to go with it…okay, just had to turn the fan on and I’m probably going to wear it out after having it on high all day yesterday…not much to do today…just going to pour more coffee down and wait for the sun to come up and then get moving….more later..
Too darn hot…
Well…I took another lazy day today with the high heat and humidity that is still here for a few more days so I sat in front of the fan and read this afternoon…even had a little episode between the rides that almost made me put the bike away with only one ride in….all of a sudden all of the energy drained out of me and it was all I could do to just stay standing…but it passed and of course I got back on the bike for the second ride…I did make potato salad and did laundry this afternoon…oh, and I went to the beach and had a really nice swim…water is perfect and I hope it stays that way for a while…and the wind was low enough that there was no sand in the car…and that was a relief with how much work I had to do to clean it yesterday…okay, time to get my night started…with some tv…
It’s pretty darn funny…
Well…after I read an article on Kos yesterday about the latest “South Park” episode that attacked the idiot trump for the entire 30 minutes, I went out and watched it last night and it was pretty damn funny…the comment from one of the readers was that there would be “ketchup on the moon” made me laugh out loud…so go watch it if you get the chance…oh, in other mango mussolini news…idiot boy’s approval rating is down to 37% overall but in the mid 20′s with independents and that is going to hurt in the 26 elections…there is no issue that he is not under water on and that is how it should be since he really is incompetent in everything he does…haven’t seen him threaten the guys who do “South Park” yet but you know it’s coming after cbs caved and paid him off for a lawsuit he filed against 60 minutes for telling the truth…where are the guts from the media these days? Geez..
July 25th
Well…damn, I am just exhausted from the heat and can barely get moving today…so the rides are going to be a huge chore…the 57% chance of rain yesterday turned into nothing as it always does and we are back to the drought that plagues this place…I really don’t think it will ever rain again…need to pour more coffee down to be able to force myself to move…wearing a mask when I’m anywhere with crowds seems to be the smart move after T caught covid a few days back and she is miserable and getting damaged from it…and that sucks…not sure what I’m going to do today…should I go out to the beach? It’s going to be cloudy all day so that may not be bad…but it’s going to be almost 90 again today and the heat is wearing me down…oh, I said that already…I do have to remember to put sunscreen on before I get on the bike since I forgot it yesterday…it’s going to be one of those surviving the day days today and I know it’s going to be so much work…getting too old for this crap….more later…
Way too much humidity…
Well…damn, the humidity was over 90% when I got on the bike at 6:45 this morning and I was drenched by the time I finished the second ride…after that I got to work removing the sand from the car and that was a huge pain in the ass since the humidity had stuck the sand to all the plastic in the interior and I had to loosen it up with a toothbrush in places so the vacuum could suck it up…and the exterior of the car was the same…it had an even coating of sand all over it…I’m going to avoid the beach if the wind is blowing hard like it was today…wasn’t going to get sand blasted since the wind was out of the south at close to 30 and blowing strait up the beach…I didn’t do anything else other than cook and read…made some pasta salad and cooked the ingredients for another batch of potato salad…I did make the pasta salad too dry so I’ll add a little bit more mayo to it tomorrow…so now it’s time to go back to reading…