Well…if you read the earlier post about the damn squirrels, you know that I threw rocks at the squirrels until I ran out of them…well….now my right shoulder hurts so much I can barely use it without it screaming in pain…damn, I hate getting old…I know I don’t throw things as much as I used to but to throw 6 rocks and now not be able to use my shoulder is a bit much…so I just took some ibuprofen so I’ll be able to sleep later and be able to pick up my water glass without wincing…crap…
Damn squirrels…
Well…I guess no good deed goes unpunished…as you know I have been feeding the squirrels a bit around here but mostly the black and grey ones although I do have the normal brown ones here sometimes…and I have planted sunflowers with the intent of cutting the heads off them when they ripen and leaving them out for the birds and squirrels to eat… but that is after they mature and I get the chance to enjoy them…but today, a gang of the damn brown squirrels attacked three of the biggest ones and killed them just to get to immature seeds that the black and grey squirrels have left alone…so I threw rocks at them and hit one of them and then sprayed the remaining small ones with vinegar to try to keep them away and I hope that works since I ran out of rocks to throw….oh, and I had to tear the lattice off the front steps to get at a new den that some damn groundhog dug under the steps…so I gassed it with a mix of bleach and ammonia again and then filled the dirt back in and left the lattice loose so I can get in there and kill the damn thing when I see it…if the gas doesn’t work, I’m going to try to drown the damn thing with the hose tomorrow….need to replace the lattice with boards so nothing can get in or out and that will stop this damn animal….cripes
400 chickenshit cops…
Well…the Uvalde revelations keep getting worse and worse as the lies from the police department continue daily…but, over the weekend, we learned the worst thing there could be…400 chickenshit cops just stood around for an hour while the murderer kept killing little children…400 cops, a full damn hour of carnage because these wannabe rambos cowered behind their shields and looked at their phones and just did absolutely nothing because they knew the asshole had an AR-15 and they know how dangerous it is…and these are the same people who think a kindergarten teacher with a 9 millimeter is going to take on a terrorist with an AR-15….cripes, 400 cops wouldn’t do it and they are armed with AR-15’s, too…now, every damn one of these cops is trying to blame “miscommunication” for the fact that they stood there and did nothing…and that is in direct opposition to their training and department rules that say that individual officers can make the go decision when it is a dire emergency that can’t wait for the higher ups to get there….but not one of them did….as I said, 400 chickenshit cops…and every one of them should be fired…how the hell do they sleep at night? Geez…
July 19th
Well…just did something I never do…got out of bed at 5:53 and then went right back for another hour…so I guess that means 6:53 is the wake up time today and that in itself is pretty weird…slept okay last night but I’m wearing out and quickly moving to having to take a day off the bike to rest…I did get to 3K miles on the bike on Sunday morning and I’m pretty sure I won’t get to my goal this year but I’m not disappointed at all…I still remember when I got to 500 miles for the year in August quite a few years back and thought that was a big deal so I guess I’m still doing okay…but I’m running late right now and need to get off my butt and get moving so I can be on the bike by 7:30….11 minutes…damn, I need more coffee….I did get a few things done yesterday and have a few to do today including an errand to return a beach chair that failed the first time I used it and get my 30 bucks back….I did get the old one repaired and I think it will last me the rest of the year and I’ll buy a new one next year….will probably hit the beach again today but I’m not feeling it right now so who knows? Not much to do today….just the routine stuff and the errand…need to do some work on the garden to get the unruly tomato plants back in order and that will mean taking some of the excess ones out that came up from dropped tomatoes from last year…they don’t look good this year and there are very few tomatoes on them so this year is a bust…oh, well….more later…
Back to the routine…
Well…after having things to do all weekend that I normally don’t do, I got back to my routine today and it feels good to go back to basics…after the rides this morning, I got the lawn mowed and had all that done by 10:15 so I just read some news until 11…had lunch, and then out to the beach for a couple of hours and back here by 1:30 or so…just finished up watering the flowers and the veggie garden and now I’m done for the day…the water is getting back to normal but it is still a bit cold that I hope goes away in a couple of days…I set up on the new beach near the water and that was a hike to go the 150 yards to get there…and the new beach is pretty abrasive with all of the zebra mussel shells in it and it hurt a bit to walk all that way….but, I lived through it and they will rake the beach with the tractor over time that should take care of that…so now I have free time for the rest of the day and I am going to take advantage of it by just reading a bit and trying to figure out what I want to make for dinner….
Idaho repubs want their wives and daughters to die..
Well…to all of the people who said that our alarm that the destruction of Roe was not warranted…I say F-you…everyone who cares at all about women’s rights was screaming that letting the states decide would mean that many states would let women die for pregnancy complications that could be safely dealt with when abortion was legal…and now Idaho, or the repub men of Idaho, have codified that in the state constitution as they made sure there was no exemption to save the life of the mother if complications arose…so, if a women has an ectopic pregnancy? Tough shit woman…you die…if you have an incomplete miscarriage?Tough shit, you are sentenced to death by bleeding out when the simple DandC would have saved your life….and this new christofascist cult just doesn’t care at all….and this crap is already happening in Texas when a woman was left to die with a failed pregnancy since Texas has made any and all reproductive health care illegal and doctors can do nothing but sit and watch their patients die…pro life, my ass…when will the women of this country rise up and throw these assholes out? I’ll be there when they do….geez…
July 18th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday since I went out to my brother’s house in the aft and was there til after 8 last night…had my first steak in years and I wonder how that is going to set with my guts….didn’t sleep well at all last night and was up at 4 and then out of bed by 5:38 and I am just damn worn out today…but I will be out on the bike before 7….should take a day off soon since my right thigh hurts and it has been hurting for a week now and I don’t think it will get better until I rest it some…I do need to look for a shop to fix the car but it didn’t leak at all yesterday so it’s not too urgent and I’m going to put it off for a while…it was a lot of work to get out of my routine yesterday and I think I’m taking today off to just ride and go to the beach to get reset and relax…and it was a lot of work being around people all day and took a lot of energy so I need to recharge….and I am going to need a nap later with feeling as I do….not much to do today…just going to get on the bike and get the rides in and then wing it for the rest of the day…it is going to be a relief to be silent today and I am going to revel in it….more later….
July 17th
Well…didn’t get out of bed until a little after six this morning so I guess that is a win but I don’t feel like it….still pretty darn sore and I’m confused about that…didn’t do anything that would cause it but I am still moving carefully to keep from aggravating it….hmmmm….think I slept okay last night but I sure don’t feel like it…I think I need to take a day off the bike soon but I need an excuse and today looks like it’s not going to give one to me with the rain sliding by to the south…..I don’t know when I last had a day off but I think it was back in April and that is still not the longest period…a few years back I did 186 days in a row on the bike but that was when I was only doing about 15 miles a day and not the 30 I’m doing now…and I still wonder if I’m doing permanent damage to my body by riding so much….wouldn’t that be ironic when I’m on the bike to stay healthy? I did get a little done yesterday with doing the weed walk in the afternoon but that’s all I did after the rides…feeling a little like a slug with not working hard enough to feel any sense of accomplishment….and that is leading to a little bit of depression today…can’t I just sit on the couch and relax? Nope….going to get on the bike here in a few and start torturing myself again…I am going to run out to my brother’s house in the afternoon to pick up some things that I can use and that I think you can too, Tom….and it is so funny that it is only about 12 miles from here and only takes about 20 minutes to get there instead of the hour it took to come out here from GR…and I haven’t been out there for almost 20 years…nope it’s more than 20 years….and that’s a little weird…..but normal for our family….and I have gps to get me there with the new phone and unlimited data….but right now I need more coffee and then on the bike….more later…
Target letters…
Well…cripes, things are heating up in the repub election fraud investigation in Georgia with the issuance of target letters to most of the repub leadership who were involved in the fake electors scheme…oh, target letters are given to people who the prosecutor thinks and has evidence that they committed a crime…and this is just at the state level for the time being…but what about the idiot trump who was driving the whole thing at the national level? I’m pretty sure Fani Willis is working on that evidence, too but I wonder why there has been no investigation or indictments here in Michigan when the repubs did the same thing here? I think the AG here needs to get moving before the fall election so none of these traitors who are still running for office will be allowed to get away with it….and lets dismiss the bullshit arguments that any prosecution would be too political…why the hell do we have laws against this bullshit if no one is going to enforce them? The more time passes with no prosecutions, the more bold these repub assholes are going to be and they just might succeed in killing this country next time…so, to every damn prosecutor out there…get off your asses and do your jobs or no one will follow the law ever again…geez…
Lazy day…
Well…damn, another busy morning for me with getting the two rides in, making potato salad, and cooking lunch but now it’s time to turn this into a lazy day and take the rest of it off….I can’t figure out all of the new pains I’ve been having the past few days…my back and sides both hurt and I had really new pain in my right thigh on the bike that I haven’t felt before…and it even hurts up by my shoulder blade on the right side and when I move, I get stabs of pain from the movement….hmmmm…oh, well….it’s not bad enough to take anything for it so I guess I should stop bitching….don’t even have to water anything today with the rain we got yesterday so it really is going to be an easy afternoon but I am going to look for a topic in politics to do later so I’ll be back in a while if I can find one….more later….