Well…looked outside when I got up this morning and knew I had to mow the lawn today…had no pain at all so I went out and walked about half speed and made sure to put no strain on my abdomen…and now I’m sitting here still with no pain so I guess I did it right…still not going to lift anything heavier than 8 pounds for a couple of weeks just to make sure I don’t hurt myself…didn’t want to have to have my son do the 80 mile round trip to come out here to mow when I am feeling no pain…might have a little stiffness from it but that’s to be expected…but now I’m taking the rest of the day off as I look for a political topic for a little later….back in a while…
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August 7th
Well..damn, it’s almost 7:30 and for some reason, my hands and fingers feel like they are asleep today…I think it’s from sleeping okay last night…didn’t wake up once all night but sure don’t feel like it…pretty worn out today and it looks like I’ll be easing into it since it’s the only path forward right now….the coffee needs to work soon or I’ll be taking a nap by 8….had an okay but lazy day yesterday…didn’t get anything done at all but cook but I am going to break the rules today and mow the lawn…but not my normal way of doing it where I throw the mower around…it will be a mindful mowing where I think about every time I have to exert myself to make sure I don’t injure my abdomen…made a salad with the leftover Romaine lettuce my daughter bought and I put my pickled onions on it and it was so good…might go out to DD to get some Angus burgers for 3 bucks a pound…just want to drive the car for some reason and a grilled burger would taste so good….need to get back to being me while balancing that with continuing to heal….is this going to be my life now? Sure don’t want to be a “cancer survivor” the rest of my life…if I can get through the UK trip and ride my bike a couple of times, that will be enough….more later…
Climate change is really real…
Well…I don’t understand how anyone can still think that climate change is not real…and it not just weather…weather changes all time is what the deniers say…but that does not explain how Phoenix has had 37 days in a row of over 110 degree highs…the arctic has even had hundred degree temps this summer…in South America, it’s the middle of winter and 9,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes it is over 100 degrees…temperatures that have never happened before…and this heat is melting the snow cover that people downstream depend on for water to survive in the summer…now that IS climate change, folks…these temperatures are higher than in Paris this summer that has caused heat emergencies all summer….we need to stop subsidizing the oil and gas companies and have a government program that will put solar cells on every house in this country…not low cost but free…I know that sounds socialist but the good things in this country comes from socialism…think roads, schools, and infrastructure….our taxes pay for that stuff and it can do the same for renewable energy…geez…
Pickled green peppers are good..
Well…just before my daughter left yesterday, she reminded me that I had half a green pepper that needed to be used…so, I got the brainstorm to slice it up and put it in the jar of pickled red onions I made…just got them out to put on the sausage I’m cooking for lunch, part two and they are just so good…a mix of green pepper taste and onion taste that I think I do again when I make the next jar of onions…going to put the rest of the green peppers on the sausage when I eat here in a minute….
August 6th
Well…running a little late this morning and I’m easing into the day so I’ll probably be late for everything all day…not that I have any schedule to adhere to today…have a high winds notation at the bottom of the screen right now but the rain has been moved out to tomorrow so that’s a little disappointing but what can you do? I am going to harvest the rest of the broccoli this morning and make a meal of it but I’m not going to plant it again next year…way too little harvest from those huge plants…it’s going to take a little while to get used to being here alone again but it’s okay…it took a lot of energy to interact all day everyday for the last two weeks and now I need to recharge a bit…I did get out to get some yard work done yesterday but I need to rest today and take care of myself no matter how I feel…feel okay and don’t hurt too much this morning so I guess I’m doing it right…still not gaining any weight so I need to eat more today and keep that up for a while…not much to do today…going to watch the MotoGP race in a few minutes and then just wing it for the day…more races on later and maybe even some soccer…need to remember that I am still on restrictions and don’t do anything stupid….more later….
Trump is dumbest person on the Earth…
Well…if you listened to the arraignment of the idiot trump earlier this week, you heard the judge warn idiot boy to not threaten witnesses…and made sure he knew it is a crime to do so…but that didn’t sink in to the thick head of the idiot…just last night he posted this to his failing truth social “you come after me, I’ll come after you” and immediately, Jack Smith asked the judge for a protection order to keep his staff safe from any of the crazies that may take that as a order to attack Jack Smith and his staff…a brilliant move that flagged that trump had broken the restrictions without actually saying it…and this judge is not having any of it and has ordered idiot boy’s lawyers to explain his statement by 5 pm Monday afternoon….and trump has been backpedaling and making excuses ever since trying to explain away the threat he made…but I don’t think that is going to matter to the judge…at the very least she should impose a gag order on idiot boy…or my preference, lock him up until the trial just like any other defendant would be…and that would be 6 months in the slammer even before the trial…finally, maybe she can get idiot boy to shut the hell up so we don’t have to listen to him anymore…geez…
August 5th
Well…it’s kind of a bittersweet morning as my daughter packs up to go home and I will miss having her here…it’s been a good two weeks and I am still healing pretty well…feel good but my intestines are giving me fits so I’m back on the mirilax until they get back to being regular again…had an okay day yesterday but only got a little done and the car is now ready for driving for the grocery run Wed…it started right up when I washed it the other day but the parking brake was frozen up a bit and I think I’ll have to climb under it and lube the linkages soon…I do need to hit Menards this week and get oil so I can change it…need to get through the winter with this car but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to afford another one if I buy a new house….going to be a huge juggling act to make the sale of this place happen and buy another one at the same time…but, I’m not going to worry about that for a week or so…my daughter is going to change the new mattress for the one in my room before she goes and I am going to help her move it whether she likes it or not….and I am going to get back into the normal routine but this new one has been fun for the past two weeks…not much to do today…just going to help her load up her car and move the mattress and then I’ll be done…then I’m just going to watch races and veg…have way too much food to eat but I need to eat more sine I’m still losing weight even without riding the bike….more later….
Took a tour…
Well…we finally got out for a tour around Muskegon with my daughter today and she really like this town…not my neighborhood, but this town and I really do need to find another place to live out here…this is the worst neighborhood in Muskegon and I’m finally ready to admit that…going to look a few miles farther west to see if there is something there for me but I need to take some time off to continue to recover from the surgery…it was a good day today with little pain but I am waiting for a call back from the surgeon to talk about my pathologist report and how I’m recovering…he called at 9:30 and I called him back at 10 so that was 6 hours ago…oh, well…we did have a small storm come through last night and it is going to rain again Sunday and Monday so I may have some peace from the drunks across the street…
It’s trump’s fault…
Well…I am getting so tired of the bullshit coming out of the right that blames everything else but trump for the trouble he is in…but let’s cut to the core of this thing…if he didn’t manipulate the value of his buildings in NY to avoid taxes or get loans, he wouldn’t have a 37 count charge against him…If he hadn’t stolen government documents and tried all he could to keep them, he wouldn’t be have charges against him in Florida…and if he hadn’t tried to overthrow the legal results of an election, he wouldn’t have the 4 felony counts against him in DC…sounds pretty simple, huh? It is…just don’t break the law and it’s all the idiot’s fault that he has all of these charges against him…he could have chosen to do what the vast majority of this country does every day…follow the rules and don’t break laws but he didn’t…with no respect for anything including the constitution, he thought he could get away with ruining this country for his benefit with the help of many, many others who have the same disrespect and lack of a moral compass as idiot boy…and now he has to pay…and I hope the rest of them do too….geez…
August 4th
Well…running about on time for waking up at 5:04 and not being able to get back to sleep…another day night and I am still shaking my head about the progress that I’ve made since the cath came out Tuesday…still have to think about it at times but it’s not the deluge I was expecting and that most people experience….got some stuff done with finally getting the car and the bike washed and today I need to get out there and lube the bike so it won’t get rusty while it just sits…we did get a nice little storm last night that will help with killing the weeds and I just may mow the front when my daughter leaves tomorrow…will take it really gently and not overdo it to make sure I have no setbacks in my recovery…I did start on my upper body work yesterday with doing 100 curls with the 5 pound weights and 100 with the 8 pound weights and I hope I can build some muscle mass to fill up the crepey skin on my arms….overall, I feel pretty good but I did have a little pain this morning …it’s down to about a 2 on the 10 scale so I think just two ibuprofens will take care of it…all of this sitting has done a number on my tailbone so I’m going to have to do some walking today and look forward to it…I am going to have prepped food for the next week in the freezer and some chicken/apple sausages that I am dying to try…had goat cheese as a topping on the chili my daughter made yesterday and she is done cooking since she is going home tomorrow…I am going to miss her…it’s been nothing but a joy to have her here to get me through the hard part of the surgery and recovery….not much to do today…we are going to take a tour of the city and my trails out to the beach so she can see why I like living out here…and I have bills to drop off at the post office so she can see the downtown, too…more later…