Well…with all of the criminality of every damn person around trump that has infested out government, it’s just too easy to write about the latest outrage and it has made me lazy and closed my eyes to other topics that I used to write about. I have been struggling to find things that as important as the crisis this country is in but I know it is as disheartening to you as it is to me…so maybe I’ll alternate politics with other things as we move toward the election….let’s start with something lighter…does anyone else have hundreds of green tomatoes on your plants that have stopped ripening? I just noticed that this week and I’m not sure if there is anything that can be done about it…I did pick a few of them to just put them in the bowl on the kitchen table and see if they will ripen…if not, I think I’ll just start cleaning out the gardens and tossing them…it is a shame that I didn’t get to make spaghetti sauce with all of those tomatoes but I did get tired of homemade salsa and pickles so I probably would with the sauce too…at least I learned something about gardens that I can apply to the garden at the new house if I can ever find one….one of the the worst things about this summer is not being able to see anyone and give away all the excess produce, luckily you can freeze jalapenos and green peppers but I only got one of those off of 6 plants so I guess I didn’t have to worry about that….okay, that’s enough for now…yeah, this isn’t working for me either…I live for politics so I guess I’ll get back to that soon….

Well…running a little late today for no reason at all but I can’t get motivated…and I am miserable from my allergies…my eyes have been itchy and dry for the past week or so and it will probably get worse over the next few weeks so I have that to look forward to…might even have to start taking something for it during the day but that will mean I won’t have them for night time and that will probably keep me up all night….hmmmm…I am starting to get concerned about the pain in my knees since they hurt every day now…they just need to hold out for about 550 miles and then I can rest them some and see if that is the problem…didn’t get much done yesterday but go out and get a smaller garden hose so I don’t have to lug the big one around to keep the patches in the front lawn watered….man, it was a pain getting the big one rolled back up to put it away…that one will stay in the garage from now on….I do have to do the grocery run today since I have some tasks to do Wed that are going to take a few hours in the morning….not much to do today…just the rides and groceries but I should get on the last indoor project today….just a couple of doors on the linen closet that should only take a day or so and then the interior will be done…more later….

Well…another night of okay sleep with weird dreams that had spilled oil and big lizards in it…didn’t get up til around 6 so I guess that is better than normal…had a little fun yesterday with going out to K’s to watch the Lions lose and it was nice to talk to someone for a change who is not a cashier at Meijers….but that meant I didn’t get anything done yesterday so I will have to clean today and I have an errand to run…need to get a new garden hose since one of my expandable ones blew a few days back and I really don’t want to drag the big, stiff one around the yard while I’m reseeding it…and I don’t need an inch diameter one just to run a nozzle or sprinkler…I’m not too sore this morning and but that is probably because I only did one ride yesterday but that will end today…have 600 more miles to do and won’t get there with just 18 miles a day…but it is getting light later and later so I can’t even get out of here until 7:30 or so now….which I guess is early enough…I can get two cups of coffee down and that helps on the bike….I think I’ll cut back to one ride a day once I hit 5,000 miles but I do like the fact that I have lost 3 inches off my waist this summer and around 10 pounds and I wonder how much I’ll gain back once I slow down some…will have to cut back my calorie intake to match the new normal but that won’t be for another 6 weeks or so….more later….

Well…it’s raining! Yeah, I’m a little excited about not having to get on the bike until after the F1 race since it is raining out there….have been rushing to get out by 7:15 or so every morning so I can get back here and get started on work and to set me up to get two rides in every day….it is so luxurious to just sit here and have coffee while watching the Moto GP races…I wonder if that means I shouldn’t be riding so much? I do know I slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning so I think I’ll just enjoy for that a while…I did get two rides in yesterday but they had another damn marathon on the trails so I had to do some road riding into town to get the miles I need in…only did 20 miles though, so that may be why my legs don’t really hurt this morning….stiff, yes, but not a lot of pain other than my right kneecap has some pain under it that I have been fighting for a couple of weeks now….didn’t get anything done yesterday and today looks the same but I should clean this place up but probably won’t…have been invited out to K’s to watch the Lions game but I’m not sure if I’m going to go out there….I’m so used to just hanging out here that it seems to be a lot of work to go out to Caledonia…and if it’s raining, watching outdoors won’t be too comfortable….we’ll see….more later….

Well…damn, I’m sore this morning and I think all the bending to reseed the lawn along with the painting is all hitting right now….but the weird thing is that I’m moving okay but I just hurt…we’ll see how it is when I get on the bike here in a few minutes…I did sleep okay and didn’t get up until almost 6…okay, I did wake up at 3:40 but was able to get back to sleep for a little while so I’ll count it as sleeping okay…it looks like I’ll be dodging the rain this morning since there is a huge blob just to the north and another one to the southwest that is heading in this direction…I find myself hoping that I only get one ride in today after doing two yesterday but I can’t slack off even though I hit 4400 miles yesterday….okay, almost 4400….have 16 more to do and that will happen on the first ride…I still need to make more progress on this place but I think I’m coming to the end of the work I’m going to do….the rest of it is large projects that I can’t do on my own…still going to try to get the last awning down next week but that will be the last project….not much to do today…the EPL comes back today and I need to look and see when Man U is playing and there are lots of races on so I won’t get much done other than vegging and watching today…I do need a day off to heal up some so I am going to try to not feel too guilty about it…maybe enjoy it for a change? More later….

Well…yeah….I am kind of filling here to make up for not being able to write at all yesterday with the site being down…but, it’s not all filler and I do sometimes talk about my life a couple of times a day…so again, here goes….I really didn’t have much planned for today other than to get the bike rides in and then mow the lawn since my little electric mower doesn’t have the guts to cut the grass if it gets too long…and it was looking shaggy anyway….so I went out hard for the 18 miler and felt pretty good since I only did one ride yesterday and had some extra energy….when I got back here I got the mowing done and the bare spots in the front lawn were annoying the hell out of me so I decided to seed all of them…well…that was about half of the lawn and took a couple of hours and lots of pain to do since I had to bend over to put the seed in and then cover it with dirt that I took out of the piles behind the garage….but, when I was watering it…one of my flex hoses blew and I had to drag the stiff, heavy one out to be able to reach all of the yard…now I have to buy another hose but it’s not going to be an expandable one…they’re not very durable and they are not cheap….then I made lunch and got back on the bike for ride 2 and that one went okay but the wind was nuts and that made it a lot of work….I got back here around 2:30 and then decided that I needed to do laundry and got that started and just got the clothes in the dryer…so now I’m done for the day…a kind of long day after getting started at 7:30 this morning…and 8 hour day but I’m taking the weekend off so I’ll have some time to just screw around…and it’s going to rain tomorrow and there is some kind of running event that is going to happen on the trail in the morning so I may be off the bike, too….who knows?

Well…as you could see, my site was down yesterday and my son just got it running again right now so I need to get to work and get caught up…so here goes…had an okay day yesterday other than the site problems and got a lot of work done…painted the railing around the flat roof and that was 3 1/2 hours of  pain since I had to bend over to do it…my hamstrings and back were screaming at me all day yesterday and they are both stiff today…should be worse tomorrow so I need to to get out in front of the pain…you know, I really miss it when I can’t come here in the morning…it helps me to get my brain started and it leaves a hole in my life that I don’t like…just feel uncomfortable when I can’t do these…slept okay last night and really feel okay today…and the first ride was a good one but I went out too fast and that left my legs pretty flat by the time I got back here…I did get back from Los Angeles a couple of days ago with getting to 4310 miles and only have about 250 miles to get to my record for a year…that should come up next week if the weather cooperates…not much to do today…I do need to mow the lawn and get started on re-seeding the front lawn since it is looking pretty crappy and bare even though I’ve been watering and feeding it….not sure if I’ll do a second ride today but I just may since I have to wait for the lawn to dry out some anyway…but I need to finish my bagel and coffee first…more later….

Well…it’s raining out there again this morning so it looks like a wait to get on the bike again today…I really did take the day off yesterday from everything and I am still feeling the guilts from it…I guess I did do something…did the grocery run since I wanted to hit Menards to get some lawn food and get it on the front lawn before it rained….slept okay last night but still feel off today and I’m not sure what that is about other than my allergies….they have been bad lately and I have had a sore throat for a few days…that’s pretty annoying but I finally got some more meds yesterday so I can take something for it….it is a little weird walking around this morning with no pain and I hope I don’t get too used to it…after all, I do have 700 more miles to do and I do kind of miss getting on the bike even after only one day off….not much to do today…I am going to clean a little and I have some stuff to do downstairs as I wait for the rain to end…but right now all I want is more coffee and to read some news…might run an errand if the rain keeps up…the radar still has a pretty good size blob of rain but that will only be an hour or so….more later….

Well…it finally looks like I’m going to get my day off the bike…it’s raining right now and the radar shows that rain is backed up all the way to Iowa so there won’t be a ride this morning anyway…I did two yesterday and I am pretty sore today….slept okay last night but feel pretty slow this morning so I think I’ll need a bunch of coffee to get me started…it is kind of nice to have no schedule for a change but I think I’m going to do the grocery run today since I can’t do anything else…I did get the railing around the flat roof wire brushed yesterday but still have a little more to do so I can paint it Thursday…supposed to be rain showers tomorrow too, so I’ll need to wait until then…my last big sunflower fell over yesterday but it was from wind and not the trunk breaking so I just stood it back up and used a chain to hold it to the fence…I am really surprised how small the root system for a 12 foot tall plant is….I will be taking them all down as soon as the seeds finish so I can put the stalks out in the trash Friday….not much to do today…I’m just going to wing it and do what I want with no schedule today….that is going to be weird…okay I guess I do have a schedule if I’m planning to do the grocery run…damn…more later…

Well…man, I’m tired this morning….both mentally and physically…not sure how I slept…it seems I was up quite a bit and then up for good at 5:14 so worse than usual….but, I’m less sore than normal with only doing one ride yesterday…but, I’ll be back on the bike for two today since it is supposed to rain tomorrow…it was nice to hear the rain last night and I am curious to see if it helped the lawn any since it was looking pretty patchy and I have been watering it to try to keep it alive…but that gets expensive real quick so I am hoping it will continue to rain some…didn’t get much done yesterday but that was the plan…I need to get to work to figure out how to get the last awning down so I can take it apart and paint it…and the railing out front needs to be done so I think I’ll get started on one of them today…but right now, I’m not motivated to do anything but have more coffee and read some news….more later….