Well…running a little late today with staying in bed until almost 7 but I don’t think that is sleeping in…just didn’t want to get out of bed and don’t really want to do anything right now…but I am and it is more than a little work….and I forgot to set the timer on the coffee maker so my coffee was cold this morning…aargh…I did get two bike rides in yesterday and did the weed walk and that always hurts my elbow so it is a little tender this morning…but better than it has been all summer so I’ll take it….I do have to water the lawn today with no rain in the forecast for the next week and I don’t want to lose all of the work I’ve done on it since I moved in….I did discover a white pepper in my garden and it is weird since it is growing on a green pepper plant…wonder what it will taste like when it is ready? Didn’t get anything else done yesterday and that is starting to get depressing….I have so much to do around here and I think I’m in a loop of not working and then more depression but I am so damn tired that I just can’t do more work…may have to cut out one ride every day and see if I can use that energy to get the painting done…and finish washing the siding…and I want to get out to the beach more with the summer almost gone….not much to do today…yeah, that’s just a habit…again, I have lots to do but just don’t want to do any of it right now….only have 17 minutes before I have to get on the bike and still need to read some news and have more coffee….more later….

Well…running quite late this morning with getting up at 6 or so and then going back to bed until 7….just wasn’t ready to get up at 6….don’t feel too slow today and know I have to get moving here soon to get the grocery run done…have to go to the atm today to get some cash out to buy some stamps since I ran out yesterday and I may want to go to the party in the park Friday but I am a little concerned about being in any crowd with the damn virus still everywhere…went back to masking up in stores and will do that again today…I just hate the damn anti vaxxers who did this to us and their selfishness is not “freedom” it’s just stupidity….I did only do one ride yesterday and got out to the beach for a while and probably should do that again today but I won’t because of the guilt that it generates….still haven’t figured out how to relax and just take it easy yet when I have so much to do around here…need to get the back of the house washed and climb up on the roof to put the soffett trim back on that blew off in the wind when I first moved in here….but I may have to buy an extension ladder since the one I have is too short to get up on the lowest part of the roof….I did spend some time yesterday figuring out how to replace the drive train on the old bike and need to buy some tools to do it…it looks like with the tools and parts it will cost almost 60 bucks to get it running again but that will be good practice when I need to rebuild the current bike…and then I’ll have three working bikes and that will be cool…not much to do today…just the grocery run and riding but I think I’ll get to prepping the door frames for painting, too, so I can get those done next week….more later….

Well…running about on time this morning and it is uncanny how I’ve been getting up at around 6:30 for such a long time now….that should be enough sleep but I still feel worn out almost every day…must just be getting old…I did get a lot done yesterday with two bike rides and mowing the lawn and I will need to water the lawn today to keep it alive since the rain that was forecast has been pushed back til maybe Thursday….and I do want to get out to the beach today since it is going to be warm but I’m not sure when I want to go…I may just do one ride today to give the legs a rest and then go out around 11 or so…and that will give me time to work on the door trim…I did start giving away my garden bounty yesterday with having way too many tomatoes…thinking about getting the blender out and making some puree to freeze in bags as sauce base that I can use over the winter…I think the tomatoes need to be blanched first but I’ll have to look it up before I do it…still have the white pepper growing on the plant and I am going to save the seeds from it to see if it can grow more white ones…that would be cool….not much to do today…need to ride to the post office to drop of my house payment and scope out Hackley Park for the party in the park event this weekend…supposed to have bands, food, and beer so that’s something I can do…I could walk there but I will probably drive and park…it’s just easier and with sore my legs have been, they need a rest….more later…

Well….I know I’ve been having a laugh over the summer months about the size of my gas bill at this house, thinking that getting it down to 7 bucks or so was kind of ridiculous given that I have a gas range and a gas water heater and take a couple of showers a day after riding and working around here…but today, the bill that came beat even the 7 bucks that was the last record…only 5.80 for this bill and that made me smile a little….how the heck can I only have used 5.80 in gas? I’ll take it but I sure don’t want them coming back to me in a couple of months to say “oh, we made a mistake, you owe us 300 bucks” or something like that…I guess I should just enjoy the bills for now…and continue to laugh a bit….

Well…not sure what would happen if I just took a day off and sat here on my couch but I’m edging up to trying it….just damn tired and depressed and I just realized that the filter in the coffee maker collapsed and sent grounds into the carafe and had to make a new pot so I’ll sit here for10 minutes as the new pot brews and that is not helping my mood at all…I mean, how can you write without coffee? I just realized I haven’t had a steak in more than a year and I still haven’t bought a grill yet, but I haven’t bought a garage door opener either and I wonder why? I have the cash but I guess I can live without either so there is no urgency when I have so much other stuff to do….I’m tired….didn’t get anything done yesterday but water the lawn and the bike rides but I do have an errand to run this morning after the first ride and need to get out of here soon to get started…..not much to do today…well, that’s not true…I have lots to do but I’m just not motivated to do much right now…this place needs to be cleaned and I need to get started on the exterior painting but that will wait til tomorrow….need to go out and get paint and do a lot of prep but that is just not going to happen today….more later…

Well…running a little late this morning and just can’t get started…no reason for it, I think it’s just Sunday morning blues and feeling worn out….still….and that’s with only doing one ride yesterday but my legs needed a little bit of a rest since they hurt just sitting here…as they do right now so it may be another one ride day today….got nothing done yesterday and today looks the same with races starting at 1 or so but that gives me the morning to figure out if I can ride two….I do need to get the ladder out and clean the downspout on the front of the house since it may rain Tuesday and I don’t want it to overflow again…..cripes, haven’t even read the news yet and it’s pushing 8….still can’t just let my schedule go and live and let things go and I wonder if I’ll ever be able to….don’t want to end up one of those slugs who doesn’t do anything….but, I could crawl back into bed right now…I won’t, but I could….I do need to get off my butt and get paint this week to do the door frames and start planning the interior work….and finish putting stuff away…I’ve been here almost 6 months and there are still totes that need to be put downstairs and bags of clothes that need to be sorted and donated….but, I don’t feel like doing any of it….not much to do today…need more coffee and to read the news and then force myself to get on the bike…..then I’ll take it from there…pretty happy that the music festival that was going on down the hill is over…it was a pain in the butt hearing all that crap for the past 4 days…hope it stays quiet all day today….more later…

Well…running a little late this morning with going back to bed until 7:11 and thinking it was Sunday….and now my weekends are going to be a little more complicated with the EPL starting back up and Man U playing right now…so I’ll have to fit the bike rides in between the matches and the races that start at 12:30 today…will probably only do one today or the second one is going to be late…we’ll see…I really should take an easy day today and my legs are telling me they need a rest since they hurt as I sit here so maybe that would be a good idea? I did make a pizza yesterday and the addition of onion and garlic powder to the crust really worked and made it quite flavorful but I am at a loss why it is sticking to the pan even with a coating of corn meal that worked before…maybe I need a new non stick pan….I am going to make a stir fry today and haven’t done one of those since I’ve been here and can’t wait to see how it works with boneless skinless thighs instead of breasts….might have a little flavor….I have a weird white pepper in the garden and I can’t wait to see what the heck that is about and how it tastes….will save the seeds and see if I can grow some next year…not much to do today….just soccer, racing, and bike rides to go with cooking and I think I am going to take an easy one today….have been abusing my body too much and need to let it repair for a bit…oh, and I do need to drag the ladder out to clean the small gutter on the front of the house but it’s not going to rain until Friday so I have time….more later…

Well….yeah, I know… haven’t been too consistent on the political stuff lately but there is nothing going on that grabs me…and I’ve been pretty busy with life out here so I promise I’lI do one tomorrow…right now, I waiting for the first EPL match of the year and just got back from the beach…yeah, tough life I know…but I did do two rides today and mowed the lawn so I think I earned a few minutes in the lake..I’m tired…I think I may have to slow up a bit for a day or so and get some rest….I think I may put some cut up cherry tomatoes on the pizza today since I have so many of them and I need to add some flavor to go along with the garlic and onion powder I’m adding to the crust….okay, I need to get some more stuff done before the match comes on in 26 minutes so I’m going to end here….maybe more later….

Well…running about on time today with getting out of bed around 6:30 and I wonder what changed to allow me to sleep through the night…for the longest time I was tossing and turning all night and getting up 3 or 4 times…and then struggling to get back to sleep…but that hasn’t happened in quite a while and it is still a little puzzling….feel a little beat up after all the work yesterday but it’s not too bad so I can live with it but I wonder if I should go hard again today? Not really feeling it so I may work on the rest of the siding next week…I think I should look at the small gutter on the front of the house since it appears to be clogged up…but it’s not going to rain for about a week so I guess I’ve got time….the yard is starting to fill in pretty well and I was having concern that it would over the summer…I thought it would take a couple of years to go from bare to covered in grass and I still think that it will be next year for the last of the bare spots to fill in…but it looks so much better than when I moved in here so I’ll take that…I did see another stoat yesterday and another lizard along the same part of the trail and that was pretty cool…..I wonder how long I’m going to be able to ride this year? Pretty sure they don’t clear the trails out here so I think I’ll have to work out a city ride that will give me at least 10 miles a day….and I’ll put the specialized bike on the trainer downstairs so I can ride indoors….not much to do today…I do need to run out to meijers to get the stuff for a chicken stir fry to use the boneless skinless thighs I got at aldis and I need to make a pizza to use up the stuff in the fridge…going to add onion and garlic powder to the crust since the last one didn’t have a lot of flavor…..more later…

Well…damn, I can’t figure out why my days continue to be busy when I am officially retired…today, I started out with an early bike ride and was back here by about quarter after 9 or so…then, as I planned, I got to work on the side of the house and scrubbed the whole thing…it looks pretty good but some of the stains were tougher than the other two sides I’ve done so far and they didn’t come completely off…but it looks so much better than it did that I can live with it….after having lunch, I got back on the bike for another ride and felt pretty good on that one, too, so that was a relief with how I’ve been feeling on the bike lately…just so flat and my legs have been dead but I actually sprinted on the way back…soaked to the bone and that felt good….after I got back here and had a couple of glasses of water, I jumped back up and got started on cleaning the car since I hadn’t done that in more than a month and the sand and dirt was piling up in the floor of the driver’s side…and I washed it, too, so it finally looks okay again…then, my work day was over but it was almost 4:30 by then and 8 to 4:30 is a long enough day…but damn, I’m not sure why I’m so busy…tomorrow will probably look the same with finishing up the back of the house and getting two rides in….I may wedge in a trip out to the beach for a swim since I was going to do that today but the day got away from me…but the EPL is starting tomorrow and I do want to get back into soccer…so what to do? I know, it’s not a bad problem to have…