Well…darn, that was weird…didn’t wake up til 7:37 this morning and I feel like I’m walking in quicksand I’m moving so slow…I did put earplugs in last night and I wonder if that had something to do with it? I do know that I had some dreams last night that I don’t remember and that may have had something to do with it, too…hmmm…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get a lot done other than a ride and masking off the window and today is going to be cleaning if I can get myself motivated a bit….I really don’t like having the newspaper up on the kitchen window to replace the shades…makes me feel isolated with not being able to see outside but I guess I’ll have to get used to it with having 10 more to do…and I really don’t like having this place dusty all the time but I think I’ll survive it…I do like that it hasn’t really snowed yet this winter and we’re already at the winter solstice….daylight is going to get longer from this point out and that is cool…..and there is no really big snow in the forecast for the rest of the month so we only have two months to worry about this winter…..not much to do today….just going to ease into it and have boatloads of coffee before I get on the bike….have to improvise meals for today and I found a two year old jar of alfredo sauce that I may use but need to look at the date to see if it will kill me or not…..more later…..

Well…running a little late today with not getting out of bed til almost 7…woke up much earlier than that but I refused to get out of bed until I tried to sleep some more….have been worn out lately and I’m sure it’s from not sleeping much….taking the day off the bike worked since my legs don’t hurt much right now…but, I’m going to abuse them here in a few minutes by getting a ride in…yep, I’m not too bright about that stuff…the wind is blowing like crazy out here again today and I think that’s what woke me up today…have been trying to sleep without ear plugs for a while now and I wonder if that’s why I’m not sleeping…I think I need to train myself to ignore the noises at night and I’ll never do that if I keep using them….I did get some things done around here and will do more today with having to mask off the window I’ve been working on…and I need to clean the bathroom that I have been putting off for a week or so…I should just take a day to clean this whole place and I may just do that after I finish the window….and I do need to figure out what to cook this week since I don’t even have enough thawed for today…but I do have cheese and bread so I can make a grilled cheese for one meal and then have the last chicken thigh and the scalloped potatoes…I think I’m going to make ham soup this week to get the bones out of the freezer….have three of them in there and that will make for  a hearty soup…not much to do today…just need to ride the bike and work on the window but that will be enough…more later….

Well….how’s that for a title? I bought a head of cauliflower Wed at Aldi for 1.99 which is pretty cheap, and I finished it up for dinner today…cooked it in my Cuisinart pots with a steamer inside and it only took about 8 minutes to steam…and, while I was making dinner, my curiosity pushed my to check the calories for a cup of cauliflower and I really laughed out loud…50 calories…yep, only 50 calories for all of that food so that makes my entire dinner today about 300 calories and lunch was about the same…I did make some scalloped potatoes from a box I got at Aldi’s, too, and they aren’t bad for 69 cents and I can get three meals out of them to go with the chicken thigh I had left over from earlier in the week…so, that makes my day about 600 calories or so but the bulk of the cauliflower has me feeling really full….didn’t do much today other than finish up the sanding, vacuumed up the dust, and wiped everything down so the new paint will stick to the window…need to mask the window off tomorrow and then get back on the bike after being lazy today….but my legs and hips have been hurting so I needed to take a day off…and they do feel better so I guess it was the right decision…I do need to maintain this old body better if I want to keep going for another 15 years….

Well…got all the way til 6:14 this morning and I will consider that a win with how things have been going lately…woke up freezing and I can’t figure that out with wearing the same clothes that I do sitting around here where I’m perfectly fine….hmmm…the sanding on the window has really affected my sore thumb and I am hurting enough right now I may have to take something for it…it’s a good thing that the window is the worst one so it will get the chance to heal up some as I finish it….I think I may take the day off the bike today for a rest day but I’m not sure yet…my legs hurt all the time and they could use healing time…and I could use a day to take it easy for a change….we’ll see….just have a little more sanding to do on the window today and then it needs to be wiped down and masked off but I have til Wed since I won’t have the paint til then….I can’t believe how much dust I blew around here yesterday and I’m glad I’m done with that….I think I cleaned more than I sanded after I finished….not much to do today…just going to ease into it since it is only 7:30 and I don’t need to get going yet….then the window and more cleaning…I have to figure out what I’m going to eat this week…might have to make soup to get some of the ham bones out of the freezer…have three of them and that should make for some hearty soup….but not today…need more coffee and to read the news right now….more later….

Well….dang, I’m glad that the window I’m working on is the worst one since the dust from all the sanding is killing me…even with wearing a mask, the dust gets in my eyes and my head is killing me from the allergic reaction to it….I only have a little bit left to sand and I’ll get to that tomorrow…then I need to start masking it up so I can paint Wed….even though the new sander doesn’t vacuum all of the dust, I don’t think it was designed to be used with so much filler…and I still like it…the sandpaper for it lasts forever and I only used one sheet to do the whole window….had a lot of cleanup to do with the dust but got that done and now it’s take it easy time for the rest of the day…the rest of the windows will probably take less filler combined than this one did so they should go pretty fast once I get the paint and get this one done…

Well…I am getting really tired of and from this 5:03 bs that has been going on for the past couple of weeks….I did try to go back to sleep but that didn’t work so I’m going to be worn out later in the day…I’m not doing anything different so I can’t even guess what the problem is…oh, well….it’s sanding day today after spending the past couple of days putting filler on the kitchen window…going to put a drop cloth down since the new sander doesn’t vacuum up all of the dust from using it but it does pick up some of it so that is cool….and I do like that it can get into corners and edges better than my big sanders…I did order the shades last night and they should be here by tues or so and I’ll be able to put them up by the end of the week with painting scheduled for Wed…want to let it harden a bit before I start drilling through it….I did get a ride in yesterday and will again today but I’ve been having some pain in my hips and I think they could use a rest tomorrow so I may take the day off…..not much to do today…just the ride and sanding…and then cleaning up after should be enough for today….almost all the EPL matches have been cancelled due to covid so I’ll have to find something to take a nap to later….more later….

Well…I wonder if you’ve noticed that it appears that stores don’t carry the variety of stuff they used to? When I ran errands this morning, I hit Meijers for a couple of things that I needed and they don’t carry Keebler Zesta saltines anymore…I had this taste for them with some peanut butter and I think it’s been a year since I saw them…they are still available in other stores but I refuse to shop at walmart so I guess I’ll have to go without them…then I stopped at depot to look for some grey shades and they don’t carry them in the stores, either…you can order them online and get them shipped but you used to be able to just go out and buy things and they would be in stock…the same with the paint that I was going to pick up…they were out of the inexpensive Glidden that I used on my son’s house and won’t have that in stock until next week…is there a paint shortage, too? I know there have been supply chain disruptions but I couldn’t get anything that I went out for this morning…and that is a little weird…

Well….damn, just took me two hours to get my computer to restart and that was scary….it was acting up and very slow all morning and it usually fixes it when I shut it off and turn it back on…but this time it was stuck in boot mode and just showed a screen that said wait and had the little rotating thing…and then I took the battery out of it and unplugged it to see if it would do a hard reboot but that took three tries and then I still had to wait for a half hour until it started and got to the main screen…I even went so far as to dig out the old laptop that still kind of works and got that connected to my router so I do have an emergency backup if I need it…but damn, I don’t need this especially since I’ve had the falling out with computer geek son and I don’t think he would help…at least it’s working now and I can breathe again…whew…

Well…darn, up at 6:03 today and feel like I didn’t sleep at all so I think it is going to be an easy day today…well…no…have to run an errand, ride the bike, and work on the window so I guess it won’t be as easy as I want….the wind was still howling all day yesterday but I didn’t have any branches come down so I won’t have them stored next to the garage all winter…..they started pouring the foundation for the new house across the street yesterday and I hope they frame it in over the winter…still not sure what kind of house it’s going to be…seems pretty small and it is butted right up against the house next to it so that’s a little weird…I think I need a day off of everything again since I’ve been on the bike every day for a couple of weeks and have been abusing my shoulders with all of the sanding…and my back hurts today and that is new….oh, well…should put fuel in the car today since I’m down to a half tank and that’s not good in the winter…the price is back under 3 bucks a gallon so it won’t hurt so much….I did get over 22K in my checking account this month and it looks like I’m on track to have 28K by the spring so I can buy another Miata and pay cash for it….if I can find one, that is…have looked and there is not much out there….not much to do today…need to get out of here in an hour or so to run errands then get to work around here….more later….

Well…I think it was a good idea to take the worst window first as I start on the interior of the house…worked on it for over two hours today but I still have 2 or 3 more hours to do before it will be ready to paint….still have more filling to do after I sand it for the second time tomorrow and it is such a pain to try to sand latex paint since it just turns soft and peels instead of sanding smoothly…but, this will be the last time I’ll be painting so I guess I can live with it…the rest of the windows have much less repairs to be done so I think each one will take a day to prep and another to paint….going to look at shades at depot when I run errands tomorrow and will probably pick up a gallon of satin finish white paint so I can paint when it’s ready….it is kind of a pain having to re-do the half assed repairs that the previous owners had done to the place…and that will get worse when I start on the plaster in the kitchen…. and the trim that was just massacred…oh, well…don’t have much else to do…