Well…running about on time this morning but got up at 5 for the first time…tried going back to bed and it kind of worked until coffee time so I guess that kind of a win…still didn’t get my 1200 bucks yet and that is a little irritating…don’t really need it but it would be nice to have…I did sleep okay with doing my 3rd day of being good and the third day of no allergy meds or ibuprofen…still have that low grade headache and sinus pressure but it’s tolerable so far….and I am pretty sore even without riding the bike but I think that is just carryover from the last time and from lifting the power washer into the car….there is damn snow on the ground this morning and it is only in the 20’s so it looks like another day of no ride unless I wait until late this aft…don’t have a lot do to so I really can wait…I am going to try to go out for groceries today since DD has chicken on sale for 1.29 a pound and I need some potatoes, too…going to try to do the 3 store run today but I will probably bail if the new regs are too much of a pain…I can make it for a month without going out except for no milk so I guess it’s not really necessary…I am going to call discount this morning to see if they are going to get my tires or if I have to go somewhere else….and that will probably make me wait until this whole thing is lifted in a month or so….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and it looks like not much today, either…the snow will have to melt before I can get on the garden but I have time to wait for that…can’t plant until May anyway so that gives me a couple of weeks….more later….

Well…with the second day of high winds and cold, it has been a bore of a day here with not getting out to ride….I did wedge the power washer into the trunk of the Miata and took it back to my son over where I used to live…and it was nice to talk to him for a while…it made me laugh that he organized an online video chat with his brothers and sister and he said that they talked for almost an hour just to catch up…it’s nice that they are staying in touch….and it was nice to run the car for a while since I’ve only driven it about 10 miles this month and that is not good for it….I did get a little work done on the downstairs project today and started to clean some but lost my motivation pretty quickly for some reason….I’m sure it has something to do with the high temp being 35 in the middle of April but that is going to break early next week and we should be getting back to around 60 which is the normal for this time of year…the big project is going to be getting the garden prepped next week so I can plant as soon as possible…so that makes the rest of this week pretty boring too, since the weather is not going to cooperate….man, I am tired today and just can’t shake it…I wonder if it’s from not eating enough…again….I did have two pieces of pizza today but without a bike ride, that should be enough….oh, well….

Well…running a little late this morning and this time it’s almost on purpose….woke up at 5 or so after tossing and turning all night but decided to try to go back to sleep and did for almost an hour…didn’t sleep much but I think it helped…and it was the second night in a row of no ibuprofen or allergy meds and I am surviving it but with a low grade headache that I know is from sinus pressure…but I can live with it…so far…not sure if that will continue with some heavy work to get done outside….need to get the garden plot chopped out of the back yard and skim the soil from the old plot that was just behind the house that has some good black dirt in it…and that will take it down to the level of the rest of the yard…but then I’ll need to seed that and that won’t happen for a month or so since I can’t get seed…I did get some cleaning done yesterday and I think I’ll do the bathroom today and maybe even the living room but that will depend on whether I get out on the bike today and if I hear about the tires for the car….and I need to put the power washer in the car and take it back to my son today or tomorrow…not much to do today…still on the first cup of coffee so there is going to be easing for the next hour or so as I wake up more and get caught up on the news….more later….

Well…with the wind still blowing like crazy out there and not getting on the bike because of it, it has been a pretty lazy day for me…I did get some work done on the downstairs project early today and finally got my kitchen floor vacuumed and mopped and then vacuumed the basement stairs and cleaned the indoors mat…hmmmm…I guess my day hasn’t been THAT lazy…but, I’m taking it easy now and have found some soccer on Pluto to have running in the background so that is cool…I did get a package from my daughter today that had two tubes of O’Keefe’s hand lotion in it after I bitched to her the other day that all this hand washing, alcohol, and bleach has been trashing my hands…it’s pretty nice stuff and I can tell the difference after just one use…I may even try it on my heel cracks since that is what it’s for on the hands…I did get access to my bank account online and haven’t gotten my 1200 bucks yet and that is annoying…I had my new username written down in my handy notebook and once I used that I had no problem…I better make sure that I don’t lose it…the inside cover has every username and password for everything from my online stuff to my router so I probably should get that in the computer somewhere…okay, that’s enough…nope, not quite…the repairs to the awning have worked well in the wind today but now I need to figure out how to take it off so I can get to the dormer once I can get paint again….I don’t think it’s too heavy but it is about 4 feet across and that will make it a little unwieldly for one person to handle….we’ll see…

Well….5:24 came pretty damn early this morning and I am feeling it…didn’t take anything for pain or my allergies last night and that may be part of it…but, I need to break that cycle since I can’t get any allergy meds and I’m down to my last 7….will be creaky all morning until I loosen up from that….man, my brain is just not working this morning so this one is going to be a little jumbled…I did get a little work done on the outside of the house yesterday with getting the small stumps taken out of the back yard and getting the awning over the side door fastened down…needed to get that done with the wind that was forecast for today…maybe some 50 mph gusts later and I didn’t want to kick myself for not doing it and having it damaged…other than that, I didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks like an interior day with lots of cleaning that I need to do…with steady winds in the 20’s I won’t be getting out on the bike today and that’s okay…well…I may try to get out before the wind comes up but I’m in no hurry about it….Tom did stop over and brought me a cool little air purifier to help with my allergies and I have it running right now…it has a cool blue light that makes it look pretty modern when it is running and I hope it works…I need help…not much to do today….going to have to ease into this one and get more coffee into me before I can do anything….more later…

Well…running a little late this morning and it’s another one where I just can’t get started….I did get out to get the paper and drive the car for the first time in quite a while and the hla’s were clacking like crazy until it ran for a while….and the paper is now getting disappointing with most companies not putting out ads anymore since they don’t want too many people in the stores and that takes away one of my Sunday morning rituals that I have been doing since I was in my teens…not sure if it’s even worth it to get the paper anymore but we do need to support them so it doesn’t go away…I remember that we had two newspapers in this town when I was a kid along with weekly papers like the “Suburban Life” that covered the small towns that surrounded GR….I miss those days….I did get out for a bike ride yesterday but I think it’s only a matter of time before they close them, too…saw groups of people all over the trail with one of over a dozen who were blocking the trail as they walked…people, stay the hell home if your going to endanger everyone with your stupidity….so I may have to go back to road riding if that crap keeps up…downtown GR is a ghost town so that may be an option….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and won’t today, either…I am still trying to take weekends off but I may get out to work on the garden plot later….the front of the house looked pretty good when I was leaving to get the paper today and that makes me feel good that all the work I’ve done is actually starting to make a difference….more later….

Well….can you tell I’m a little bored? I guess you can watch the sparrows on the feeder for only so long before you start to go bonkers…oh, seeds….I have my first green pepper seed sprouted…and I have two more jalapenos that have come up, too so it looks like the extra 4 of each that I planted the other day weren’t necessary…so I guess I’ll just make the garden a little bigger and will have lots of stuff to give away this summer….and I need room for the beans and cukes anyway…so now I wait for the weather to cooperate and that is going to be a little painful…I do need to get motivated to do the doors for the linen closet at the end of the hallway and that will finish up the interior painting….that will be next week…not going to do much today…might be able to get out on the bike in shorts today if I wait til noon or so…that sounds like a plan….

Well…I wonder if they have jump starters for people? I sure need one this morning with not being able to get going at all…have been up for an hour and am just now getting to this…and I feel pretty crappy with the allergies just kicking my butt….I may have to take some generic zyrtec that my daughter gave me when I was out there to visit since I won’t go out to the stores anymore with the restrictions they have in place…and I can’t use the generic flonase since it suppresses your immune system and that’s the last thing I need right now….so I guess I’m just going to resign myself to being miserable for the next month or so…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but screwing around a little around here and it looks like today will be the same…I am going to do the kitchen floor but don’t plan on doing much else since I do like to take the weekends off…and my motivation tank is empty…I do want to get the recycling out today but that will take a grand total of about 3 minutes and that won’t do a lot to quell the boredom…ha, I’ll bet you haven’t seen anyone use quell in a long time…just heard a weird noise that I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from and then realized that it is from the sparrows on the feeder attached to the front window…it is almost empty and they are banging on the bottom of it…and the sound is amplified by the window….the little shits went through 2 pounds of feed yesterday and I even had a grackle try to land on the hanging feeder…he was a little too big and it was funny to see him try…probably should fill the feeders this morning…but not now…need more coffee first…more later…

Well…just took a look at my veggie starters downstairs and one of my jalapenos came up…and it is one of the original seeds that I put in a couple of weeks ago so maybe there is hope for the rest of them?  The tomatoes are almost 6 inches tall already and will be more than ready when this damn weather warms up…froze my butt off on the bike today and gave up after only one ride….I wonder if I should start the cukes, too…..or the beans? Nope, don’t have room for them and I think they can wait since planting won’t be for a month or so….can’t wait to get the sunflowers going along with the rest of the flowers, too and I’m glad that I got them before they shut down all of the garden centers…man, I can’t wait till this whole virus thing is over….just sitting here on hold until May 1st now and I am itching to get at the outside…oh, well….

Well…feel pretty lousy this morning and I think it’s just the allergies flaring after doing the lawn and other stuff outside yesterday…and not sleeping is a part of it too…one good thing is I think taking the day off the bike has helped the pain that I felt everywhere but I’ll be back on it today but in full thermasuit since it snowed here last night and is going to top out around 40 today…I was going to wash all of my winter hats and put them away last week but didn’t get to it and now that looks like a good thing…and it is going to be cold now for the next two weeks so I’m going to be on pause for a while…I did talk to my son yesterday and found that I need to buy a house and be out of here by the first of Feb next year so I need to get my butt in gear and find a house soon…but I want to wait for a while to see where housing prices are going to go with so many people out of work…the predictions are that they should drop by 10% or so and that will help…at least I’ll get a summer here and be able to enjoy my garden and the work I’ve done…and I need to save some cash to have at least 40K for the down payment…but today I’m not going to think about it…or not much anyway….it is  a little bit of  a relief to have a date to be working towards and I’ll ramp up the search here in  a week or so…not much to do today….I did plant some more pepper seeds yesterday since the first ones didn’t come up and I may just plant all of them and then winnow out the ones I don’t need just to ensure I get the head start that I’m getting with the tomatoes….and I need to clean some around here after being lazy yesterday…oh, and cook…have tacos and chicken to make today and then a pizza tomorrow to use everything in the fridge downstairs….I’m not going to go to the grocery store for the next two weeks or more…just don’t want to jump through the new hoops and really should get the freezer emptied…and I can use missing a few meals….more later…