Well…when I got up this morning, I didn’t really feel like doing anything even with sleeping in til 7…and that continued for quite a while until after lunch…I did make the chicken Masala for lunch but that is the only meal for the day…had the chicken over some rice with one piece of Naan bread and with a glass of milk that should be about 600 calories for the day…then I got on the bike for two rides and got the laundry done so I did get a few things done…after that, all I did was finish up the 6th book I’ve read since I got the 30 books from the library…I do have to set the clocks back this afternoon so I don’t have to do it in the morning and my coffee maker will have the coffee brewed at the right time…it was a little relaxing knowing I’ve got the tree removal set up but now I think I’m going to replace that one in the middle of the yard and it’s down to either a red maple or an apple tree…I won’t live long enough to see apples off it but the next owner will…so I’ll need to have them chip the tree stump out…and I’ve decided to try to keep the low hanging branch on the big tree since it rebounded nicely after I trimmed the branches at the end of it and the leaves are not wilted so the circulation is still working even with a small crack in the bark….

Well…that was a little better…slept through the night and didn’t get up til almost 7 and I’ll take that rather than getting out of bed at 5…but I still feel worn out at almost 8 but I’m hoping the coffee will help with that….had the doctor appointment yesterday and there was nothing alarming found so I’m not seeing him until next fall…I am going to go to a seminar they are offering to get my end of life stuff all set in a couple of weeks…I’ll get my DNR and will and the rest of it done then so I’ll have a packet for my daughter in case I croak….I did hear from the tree people last night and I’m in the queue and it looks like it will only be a couple of weeks until they can get to me…and I like these guys so that takes a load off…got all of the branches piled up and took the branch off the mulberry tree that was shattered so now all I have to do is wait….I have gained 10 pounds since the surgery and that is not acceptable to me so I’ll get on losing that weight after I go through all of the bad food I bought…I am going to try to get an outdoor ride in today but the F1 sprint race is on at 10 so I need to work around that and Michigan plays at 7:30 tonight so that will conflict with a race so I’ll have to figure that out…I do need to figure what I want to plant to replace the tree they are taking down…either a red maple or an apple tree but I know I’ll never see apples from it…but I think the next owner of this place will appreciate it…not much to do today…just going to sit here for a bit and have more coffee and then make chicken Masala for lunch…indoor ride for the first one here in a minute then outside….

Well…at the doctor appointment this morning, I mentioned to him that I have been coughing for a month and it is damn annoying…so he listened to my lungs and sent me out for a chest x-ray just to make sure it’s not pneumonia and I got my blood work done at the same time…the whole mess didn’t cost me any copays today so that was cool…even without my coffee, my bp was high today but I’m resisting having any treatment for it…just don’t think I need it and I really don’t want to get into the whole taking multiple medications thing…I feel good with no symptoms of anything so I think it’s a good decision…now I get to have the coffee I didn’t have this morning and I’m going to sit here for a while and watch F1 practice….more later…

Well…damn, up at 5:04 this morning to go with getting up at 4:53 yesterday so I am worn out today…and there will be no coffee to get rid of the cobwebs until after my doctor appt at 9…I did get two indoor rides in yesterday but it is already 52 out there so I may be able to do an outdoor ride after I get back here…forgot to buy fresh ginger yesterday for the chicken Masala so I’ll have to stop at Aldi’s or Meijers after the appt so I can make it tomorrow…and I think I’ll try to drag some more of the downed branches into the pile…still haven’t heard from my brother about a tree service so he must be on vacation….so I’ll start researching companies over the weekend….have been good for a week but that ends tonight….have a lot of shows in the queue to watch that go with cocktails and I’ve just discovered a show called “Bosch: Legacy” that is pretty good along with the soccer documentary “Welcome to Wrexam” that I’m working through the first season of….so, plenty of entertainment for later today…not much to do today…just riding and the doctor appointment this morning and then I’ll be winging it for the rest of the day….more later….

Well…damn, the string broke this morning and I didn’t sleep in…up at 4:54 and I went to bed late so about 6 hours of sleep and I’m feeling it today…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to do the grocery run this morning and try to get a name of a tree service from my brother so I can get in the queue and get my yard cleaned up…it is going to make me cringe driving the perfectly clean car in the slop this morning since there is still snow on the roads that they never plow up here…but I do need things and I can’t wait til tomorrow with the doctor appointment at 9…I do need to get on the bike today since I took the day off yesterday but I just don’t feel like it right now…so maybe after I do the grocery run…might be able to ride outdoors tomorrow and Saturday with the highs in the 50’s…it’s only 36 right now so I’ll be inside today….not much to do today…just need to get moving in an hour or so but I’m not motivated at all…and I do need to clean more today but that won’t happen til this afternoon…more later…

Well…after another tree fell and hit the house this morning, luckily no damage to the house, I called my insurance agent and she passed it on to my insurance company…whatever you do, don’t use Frankenmuth for your home insurance…they don’t cover trees falling unless it falls and damages your house…so, it looks like I’m on the hook for 2-3000 dollars to get the other half of the rotted tree taken down and get all of the branches cut up and get the sagging ones cut off…and it’s going to be almost 7 weeks before anyone can get here…fun, huh?

Well…damn, at least the power stayed on last night…but I lost so much of my big tree that I’m not sure it will survive…and it’s 16 frickin degrees out there on the first of November when the normal lows are in the mid 30’s…and we got 13 inches of snow yesterday so that means I can’t even get out to do the grocery run…have a doctor appointment Friday morning and I’m not sure if I will be able to get to it since they never plow the streets out here…so here I sit…depressed as hell hearing more and more branches fall outside and knowing I’m going to have to spend thousands to get my place cleaned up…so today is going to be just sitting here and doing nothing…don’t have the energy to clean and don’t want to ride the indoor bike…crap, I’m getting too old for this shit…more later…

Well…we’ve had almost 13 inches of heavy snow out here today and I’ve lost half of my big tree to the weight of the snow snapping branches off…and half of my mulberry tree is touching the yard since the biggest branch snapped but is still connected to the rest of the tree…so now I have two frickin weeks of work to clean up after this and it is not even over sine it is too cold to melt the snow off until tomorrow…when I was shoveling the snow, it sounded like shotguns going off as branches shattered all over the neighborhood…and now it’s going to cost me at least  a couple of grand to have a tree service come out and cut the branches off that are still hanging on…I just don’t need this…

Well…that was a little weird…hit the sack at 11 or so…up once at three and then didn’t get up again until 7:34…so, I’ll consider that a good night’s sleep…and I feel good this morning even though my neck hurts and I have a slight headache but I think it will work out after I sit here a while…it was the third day of being good and I’m starting to like how I feel when I get up in the morning…we have a winter weather advisory on today with the possibility of 6 inches of snow out here and it’s going to be cold so I’ll be back on the indoor bike for two rides this morning…and I’ll continue cleaning the kitchen…don’t need to cook since I have lots of leftovers still but I have the ingredients for the chicken masala that I’m going to plan to make later in the week…and I need to look at the recipes that my daughter left and find a second one to make and get those ingredients tomorrow…still have chickpeas and lentils she left me and I want to use them….going to ease into it today but I want to get on the bike by 9 so I can get both rides in this morning and have the afternoon free….not much to do today…have lots of coffee left over so I need to have a couple of cups before I get on the bike…and I think I’ll have some toast to use of the 4 buck loaf of rye bread I bought two weeks ago….more later….

Well…it’s been a pretty busy day that started out with me looking at the weather and the temp of 38 out there and deciding that was just too cold to ride in, so that meant I had to get the indoor bike ready by airing the tires and hitting the chain with wd…but then I discovered that the battery in the computer on it was dead so I had to find the spare batteries and the instructions on how to program it so I could log the miles…I finally got that done by around 10am and then got two rides in totaling 16 miles and that felt good since all I had to do was walk downstairs in shorts and a t-shirt dragging my tablet and it’s tripod with me so I could watch tv while I rode…and it’s a good thing I got it up and running with the “enhanced” lake effect snow that is going to be falling all day tomorrow that will keep me off the outdoor bike probably til Friday or Saturday…and it’s going to be cold with highs in the 30’s so there is no way I was going out in it…I did have a problem with my bluetooth earbuds when one of them died by dead battery about halfway through the second ride…so, I may have to buy another pair…only about 20 bucks so no big deal…and then I made the best pizza I’ve ever made on the grill…loading the crust up with garlic powder and Italian seasoning and then putting turkey pepperoni, thin smoked ham, green pepper, onion, and green olives….big taste that I needed to do since I can’t taste much anymore…I’m only going to have that one piece of pizza today since I need to cut calories…need to lose ten pounds since I overshot gaining…oh, well…