Well….damn, I think I’ve got another eye infection…at least it feels that way…or it could just be allergies that I haven’t taken anything for in a while…so maybe I’ll try that today to see how it feels…didn’t sleep for crap last night and had dreams about forest fires for some reason…but I’m back to getting up at 3:40 and that just sucks….and I still have two awnings to do the next two days but I am still sore from the last one and that is going to make these two a little more difficult…at least they are in the open and I won’t have any problems getting the ladders to them like the last one….I do have to get my Lake Michigan swim in this week and I think that will be wed since it is supposed to be hot and the lake temp is almost 70 still so that will make it nice….and that will make it 62 years in a row that I have had a swim in the lake….and it will be nice to get the hell out of here for a while and drive the car a bit…so that means I’ll have to do the grocery run thurs but that’s okay…or maybe tomorrow…we’ll see….not much to do today…just the bike ride and the awning but I should mow the lawn too…I did get the grass to start in the big bare spot out front so I’ll have to patch the rest of them out there and keep watering it to maintain it….more later…

Well…cripes, I just noticed that I didn’t do a second one yesterday and there really is no reason for it…I wasn’t busy and didn’t do any work on the house…I did chase the damn squirrel that has been eating my tomatoes and knocked him off the fence…I’m at the point that I’m going to kill the damn thing the next time I see him…and I’m not a violent person but I didn’t grow my garden to have that little varmint ruin all of my tomatoes by taking a bite out of every damn one of them….so, I’ll have to look for it this morning…slept okay last night but still feel pretty crappy right now but one good thing is that I’m only doing one ride today and that is not going to happen until 9 or so since there is a Moto GP race on at 7:30 that I want to watch and that will last until then…and there are races on all day again today with the Indy 500 on this afternoon that I never miss…so there probably won’t be any work done again today…and it is supposed to rain a bit so no painting today….my foot is still not hurting and it has been a couple of weeks now…I’m even almost back to my normal walk and I’m surprised that it has taken so long to stop favoring it….I still think about the pain so I think that will take a while to fix….not much to do today…need to get some cleaning done but I don’t need to cook since I have leftovers to use…and I have chicken downstairs that I haven’t even opened yet….and lots and lots of tomatoes…need to eat a couple today before they get overripe….more later…

Well…crap…another morning of being late to come here and I sure don’t like it…I mean, it’s 7:21 and I just poured my first cup of coffee and I should be out on the bike already…but, I don’t have much to do today and just need to get the two rides in by 12:30 when the first race of the day starts…feel really slow this morning and probably need to stop taking the otc sleeping pills again…but I do sleep with them and that wasn’t happening before….three to four hours a night was killing me and I think I may need a plan to attack that other than the pills…what that would be I don’t know…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but that was the plan with way too much ladder work this week and with the pain that came from it…was so damn stiff yesterday that I could barely walk but that seems to be better today….but, I am going to do two rides again today since I’m pretty damn dumb….I did go over 3900 miles yesterday and need to keep up the pace….I have way too much food waiting to go into the freezer and need to get that done today…pork loin and chicken thighs that I probably shouldn’t have bought this week….but I did take a pizza out so there may be room for it downstairs….and I need to eat a couple of tomatoes today so they don’t spoil but there aren’t any calories in them so I can not feel too guilty about that…not much to do today…need to get moving and get on the bike and I do need to clean some today but I’m not really motivated right now…maybe later….

Well…I think this is the latest I’ve made it here, other than Sundays, in a long time…had really fitfull sleep all night and didn’t get back to sleep until almost 5 and then didn’t get up til 6:46…so I’m running late today…how do you hurt the bottom of your feet? I know how…I guess that was a rhetorical question…up and down the ladder and standing on rungs for three hours for three days in a row will do it…but I think I’m taking the day off today to try to let them heal up some…they burn like crazy so they do need a rest…and I only have two more awnings to do so they can wait til Monday…or tomorrow depending on how my feet feel….made my first batch of salsa yesterday and it came out great…don’t think I put a big enough jalapeno in it, though…it has a little bite but doesn’t make me sweat so the next batch will have more…had something knock a ripe tomato off the plant yesterday and eat half of it and I’m betting it was the damn squirrel I have been throwing rocks at…he attacked another one but only broke the skin so I kept that one and ate it…it is sure nice having tomatoes that taste like tomatoes…oh, got the news from my youngest son that I am going to be a grandpa next Tuesday…they are going to induce labor for his wife since she is past her normal due date…it still sucks that I can’t be there in the hospital with them…god I hate trump and his toadies…not much to do today….with being so sore, I need to take the day off and just do easy stuff today…my hands even hurt and my back and my legs…okay let’s just say everything hurts and leave it at that….more later…

Well…running late again today and it’s another morning I just can’t get started…slept okay but feel pretty crappy this morning and can’t wait for the coffee to start to work…I even just laid in bed for a half hour after I woke up and that is just not like me…I usually just pop up out of bed when I wake up and get started…but not today…hmmmm….I am getting pretty tied of adhering to a schedule every day even though I don’t need to…I have all the time in the world so I wonder why I can’t take it easy…oh, well….I do have enough tomatoes to make my first batch of salsa today and I am pretty geeked about that…I think that is one of the biggest reasons why I wanted to plant tomatoes…there is nothing like fresh salsa to snack on and put on some tacos….but I forgot to get tomato sauce at the grocery store yesterday so I’ll have to stop after I hit depot for another gallon of paint to finish the awnings this weekend…not sure if I’m going to paint one today but I probably will…and maybe do two tomorrow so all of them will be done before the weekend and then I can take the weekend off and just plan the next work…but going up and down the ladder yesterday has made me sore today so there will be some ibuprofen in my future….I can’t remember a summer with this little rain and I am struggling to keep the lawn from dying….I mean the last rain was two weeks ago and it is not supposed to rain for another 10 days…I wonder if there is an official drought going on? More later….

Well…damn, it’s 51 degrees outside and that is the bottom limit of riding in shorts…and in August? Slept okay last night but I think I’m done with the sleep aids…just feel so run down until noon or so and I can’t have that…have to do the first ride and then the grocery run before I get to another awning today..I should have enough paint since the next one is a small one but I will have to go out tomorrow and get another gallon but that should be enough for the last three…I was pretty sore all day after being on the ladder for too long yesterday but I don’t feel too bad right now…still hobbling around but that seems to be normal if I keep up abusing myself…I’m starting to get too much stuff from my gardens and I don’t have any way to give it away…need to look for recipes for cukes but I know what to do with extra tomatoes…going to make some homemade salsa but not yet…still haven’t gotten my fill of tomatoes with just salt and pepper and some tortilla chips…and have some fresh mozz that I am going to slice up for some today too, since that is just a great flavor…maybe some cuke slices too? Not much to do today…just riding and work…again…just like always….more later…

Well…running a little late this morning and just can’t get started but I need to pretty quick since I have lots to do today…slept okay last night and I am happy that the nights have gotten a little more comfortable…and now we are into weeks of no smoke in my house from the idiot’s smoker and that is comfortable too…even with doing two rides yesterday, I’m not too sore today but will be tomorrow with painting another awning after the bike ride this morning…and I have to ride over to the post office on the way out to the trails to get my bills in the mail early since trump screwed up the post office so much it will take a week or better to get the bills where they have to go…I don’t think I’ll take a second ride today after working on the awning but I’m not sure of that yet….it is going to depend on how I feel after it and I need to prep the next awning for paint tomorrow too so I may be hurting too much…damn, this getting up late is screwing up my schedule…it’s already 7 and I’m not even started on my first cup of coffee…need to get moving…and I may be going out to meet up with G for a couple later so I do need to get everything done pretty early…I’m glad this awning is about half as wide as the big one out front so that will save some time but I still need to put two coats on and I need it to dry an hour between them…but the sun will be beating on this one so it should dry pretty fast…I will have to get another gallon of paint later in the week but that should be the last one I need…I hope…more later….

Well…man, it has been another busy day and I can’t really figure out how it got away from me…it started with getting out on the bike for the first ride then coming back here to head out for a couple of errands…I just had to get out to Meijer’s since they have half pork loins on sale for 99 cents a pound and that is good, cheap protein that I haven’t had for a while so I got a 6 pounder for 6 bucks that I can cut up into chops and maybe even turn into some pulled pork…and I didn’t want to wait til wed when I knew they would be out of them and I didn’t have anything else thawed for meals…then back here to mow the lawn and back on the bike for the second ride…then lunch and back out to prep the next awning for painting tomorrow…while I was doing that, I noticed that there was loads of junk in the gutters on that side of the house so I cleaned them all out and then had to sweep the entire driveway since there were so many nails in the junk….and that meant up and down the ladder and moving it a bunch too and I am already pretty sore from it…then I had to take care of the gardens and patch and reseed the big bare spot in the front lawn..oh, and do laundry that should be done in a minute and I’ll have to put that stuff away…and do two of these…so, yeah…it has been a busy day but I am done right now….I think I’ve earned a little time off after 8 hours of work today….

Well…okay, didn’t come back for a second one yesterday and there really is no reason for it other than I forgot…and I didn’t take the whole day off the bike, either….just felt antsy all day without riding so after I did the dishes from dinner, I jumped on the bike and did 14 miles…both my knee and elbow stopped hurting and I was walking around without pain so it just had to be done…the light looks really different at 5:30 pm than it does in the morning….slept okay last night and there is a reason for it but that is going to stop today…just too groggy in the morning and I don’t feel like doing much until late and that screws up my schedule…why I have a schedule at this point in my life I don’t know, but I do and the routine makes it easier than thinking…didn’t get much done yesterday but that was the plan so I don’t feel too bad about it…but I need to get back at it today…after I run a couple of errands this morning…need some stuff at meijers and a dollar store over on Leonard has Hanes t-shirts on sale for 3 for 10 bucks and I need some new ones to replace some that have just fallen apart from my acid sweat when I ride….then I need to get at the next awning and prep it for painting tomorrow…and I’m getting back on the bike here in a few so I have plenty to do today….more later….

Well…okay, this is going to shock you…I’ve decided to take the day off the bike…and the only reason is that I want to do something else…you know I’ve talked about MotoGP before…the highest form of motorcycle racing which would be essentially their formula 1…well…there is a race on at 7:30 this morning which will last until the F1 race at 9 and then lots more racing all day and Man U plays this aft too, so I think I’m going to veg it out today and just take care of my body….my right elbow is howling in pain today for some reason and I must have slept wrong on it…and that goes along with my right knee that has been hurting on the bike so a day off should help them both….and I’m going to use one of my last allergy meds this morning since I have already been sneezing like crazy and can’t breathe…so yeah, I’m pretty miserable right now but I slept okay last night and I’ll take that….I am going to get back on the awnings tomorrow and get at least one of them painted and that will leave me with only 4 more to do not including the one over the side door…that one is going to be a project in itself…going to have to take that one down and take it apart to paint it part by part…getting it down by myself is going to take some planning…hmmmm…I wonder if I can leave the frame up and just unscrew the pieces? Just thought of that right now and that would be much easier….but I still need to get at the dormer…I know the frame is not too heavy so maybe I can take it down after disassembling it…hey, I may be old but I still have ideas….more later….