Well…that little house behind me just went up for sale the other day and I got a flyer in the mail today and I am shocked at what they are asking for it…I mean, a one bedroom on a slab with no basement, 900 square feet with no garage on a lot that is 1/3 the size of mine and they are asking 165K for it…so I guess that means my house is worth at least that…after all mine is 1,100 sf up with another 900 in the basement with a garage and a huge lot…if that’s true, I’ve made 75K on this place in 5 years and I can live with that…

Well…another day, another one with lot of work in it…started before 7:30am with getting on the outdoor bike for the first ride and then back on it before 9 to finish the 26 miles before 10…and then right into cooking the 8 pound pork shoulder that took about 3 hours including clean up that I finished a little after 2pm…I have pork shoulders figured out since this is the 2nd one I’ve done and it came out great…the key is cooking it long enough at an hour and a half and having the meat coated with a dry rub and then sauteing onion, garlic, celery, and carrots to give the meat some good flavor as it cooks…and adding chicken broth for the cooking liquid and that I had left over from the first one…and now I’m going to have a pulled pork sandwich with pickles and Bullseye barbecue sauce for dinner…right now I feel so worn out after doing 26 miles two days in a row that I need a bit of a rest…it was also laundry day and I just got that put away and I think that’s enough for one day…

Well…that didn’t work…have been trying to get my sleep patterns back to normal after stopping drinking and even stayed up to my normal 10:30 to 11 last night but was up at 4:30 again this morning…that makes a good 6 hours and that is about what I slept before but there still seems to be something wrong about that…oh, well…I did just have a weird thing happen…dropped one of my BP meds getting it out of the bottle and the thing landed on edge standing up and the chance of that is pretty damn small…it’s already warm enough to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light so I may get two rides in outdoors again today before the rain comes in…my legs are still stiff from yesterday but I think most of that is from mowing the lawn but I may have to take it easier after going wide open on the bike yesterday…I do need to take the day off the weights to give my upper body the chance to recover but that may wait til tomorrow…who knows? Not much to do today…I am going to make the 8 pound pork shoulder in the instant pot today and I am curious to see if I finally have the recipe nailed and can repeat how good the last one turned out…and that will feed me for a full week…I am finally getting some room freed up in the freezer so I can make the ham soup next week and that will free up even more space…but I’m not sure what I’ll fill it with next…nothing is affordable…more later…

Well…once I decided that today was going to be a two ride outdoor day, I knew I was going to overdo it with adding mowing the lawn right after I got off the bike…I mean going like crazy on the bike for 2 1/2 hours and then onto the lawn for an hour and a half of walking behind the new mower has left my thighs burning and my lower back so damn stiff I may have to take something for it…but I had to get the lawn done today sine it was getting long and we have a couple of days of rain coming and it would have been too long to mulch if I waited til Monday…I do like ht new mower and it does a great job of mulching…and it started on the first pull and that is pretty cool…and it has a lot of extra speed in it…I had the drive halfway engaged and it was just the perfect speed, leaving me a hyperspeed if I ever want to run behind it…I am just so damn worn out, though and I wonder if the getting up at 4:30 am is the cause of that…I did get a 15 minute nap this afternoon so I am curious to see if that has any affect…okay, need to make dinner…

Well…I really tried to stay in bed until at least 5am this morning and I got close but no cigar…I really do need to figure out how to rotate my sleeping so I go to bed later and get up later…I mean getting up before 5am for three weeks now is wearing me out…and yeah, I know why and I am going to continue not drinking even though it has this result…so, it’s 5:15 and I’m pouring down the coffee to get myself jumpstarted and get the day going…just asked my phone how many days in a row I’ve been on the bike at least once and it’s been 917 days so I will get to 1K before the Italy trip and that’s not bad for and old guy…going to finish off the rest of the leftovers today so I can make another pork shoulder tomorrow…still haven’t figured out if pork is bad for me but it probably is…really, everything is bad for me but fruit and veggies I guess but I can’t live on that…although I did buy some apples and 4 pounds of oranges for a buck yesterday and I may even go back to Meijers Monday to get more…one of my Mastodon friends told me that in her area apples are a buck each and 4 pounds of oranges are 6.99 so I feel fortunate that I live in a city with lots of grocery competition…going to wait for the temp to come up and get 2 rides in outdoors today…so that means sitting here til about 9 am for the temp to get up to 53 or so and then I can go out in shorts…not sure if I’ll clean today but my bedroom could use a dusting…more later…

Well…since it just a little after 5am, I thought I’d do a makeup one for the one I missed yesterday…can you tell I’m already bored? And I may need to make some pour over coffee since I only had 6 cups left in the coffee maker and I’m not sure if that will be enough for the day…it’s grocery run day today and I have a long list for Meijers since they have lots of stuff on sale for a dollar…I mean 5 pounds of potatoes for a buck? Apples and oranges, too so I’ll get my quota of fruit for the first time in a while…and frozen corn and bacon wrapped pork fillets for a buck and that’s a good deal with how high prices are…got a nice outdoor ride in yesterday and Muskegon Lake has filled up to the point that the sandbars are back under water and the shoreline is back to normal and that is good to see…why, I don’t know but it just seems right that the lake looks normal again…I did see 6 deer in the tunnel of trees yesterday and they just stood right next to the edge of the trail as I rode by…not spooked at all and that was fun to see…it’s going to be cold when I take off to do the grocery run but I’m putting the top down anyway…it will be sunny so that will help…I didn’t rotate the tires on the car yesterday since I found a few lugnuts that were not tight and I’m going to see it that was why I had some vibration…Miatas are just so sensitive to anything having to do with the tires…okay…does that make up for missing one yesterday? Seems like it to me…more later…

Well…damn, I just noticed that I forgot to come here for a 3rd one yesterday and I’m not sure how that happened…I mean I’ve got all the time in the world so I must have been distracted by reading…oh, well…up at the ridiculous time of 4:30 this morning and I heed to figure out how to put a stop to that…I did go to bed a little early so maybe that had something to do with it…I did check my BP for the first time in a week this morning and not drinking has had an effect…118/68 with a 58 HR is just where it needs to be and that’s before any BP meds…this has been the coldest spring on record here in Muskegon and the highs are going to be in the low 50’s next week with lows in the 40’s and that is just wrong for the end of April…the little house behind me is up for sale again and I know part it is from the idiots in the rental being out there partying all the time…and they’ll probably turn it into another rental that will attract more lowlifes and I’ll be calling the cops all summer…again…I did go out and get another pork shoulder yesterday and I’ll be cooking that in the instant pot Friday…and it will be a perfect day for that with rain forecast for the entire day…and that will be feeding me for a week or so before I have to think about meals again…more later…

Well…this is a new normal that I really don’t like very much…getting out of bed before 5am has happened every day since I stopped drinking and it’s pretty frustrating to think you’re sleeping okay and the clock says otherwise…going to be a busy one today with the normal stuff, running out to Meijers to see if I can get another pork shoulder, and the rotating the tires on the car to see if I can get rid of the vibration from the tires…and I am going to get an outdoor ride in this afternoon so reading is going to have to wait til this afternoon…it sucks that the heat has been on all day every day since last Friday and it’s the end of April…this really is the coldest spring we’ve had since I moved out here and I am really ready for it to break…even had the heating pad on me last night since I couldn’t get warm and I sure hope it isn’t from getting old…the grocery run tomorrow will be late since I need to pick up a prescription and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9am…oh, well…okay, I have a lot to do today so I won’t say I don’t…more later…

Well…on my errand this morning, I got a lot of stuff that I’m looking forward to trying…some cool freebies and replenishment of some stuff I was running out of…so I really won’t have to make another run until the end of summer…so that will give things to look forward to for tonight…it was damn cold this morning but my outdoor valve survived it without cracking so I hope that is over for the year…it did get down to 26 out here last night and that is too damn cold for the end of April…but it looks like it’s going to warm up starting tomorrow so I may do two outdoor rides…not sure what I’m going to do for the rest of the day…I should clean but I really don’t want to but I guess we’ll see…picked up 7 more books from the library so I’m good for reading material for now…so now I guess I need to think about lunch and try to find a political topic…

Well…this getting up at 4:45 is starting to get really old and I think I’m going to have to take something for it tonight…had the 15th day of not drinking yesterday and it has gotten to be the new normal and has saved me a lot of money…I mean my grocery bill last week was only about 20 bucks but I will have to replenish the protein supplies this week but I don’t know what that is going to be yet…nothing is on sale so I may be digging through the freezer for something…I know there is some chicken in there and I have a few pork loin fillets and some bacon so I won’t starve…I did get the kitchen counters and sinks cleaned yesterday but I’m not sure what I’ll do today…I do have to run an errand this morning and hit the library for more books but I need to finish the last one after the bike ride and before the errand…it’s only damn 30 degrees out there right now and it’s only getting to 44 today so no outdoor ride…again…but it’s going to warm up a bit and I’ll be out riding tomorrow…it appears the insulation job I did on the outdoor faucet worked since I don’t hear water leaking from a frozen valve and I’ll take that…more later…