Well…on the bike ride the past week or so, I’ve seen what I thought was a female bald eagle sitting in the trees across the pond from the male that I’ve seen quite a bit this spring…and today, that thought was confirmed when I saw the nest that they’ve built only about 20 yards from the trail and with the female on the nest….so we have a nesting pair and I am a little excited about that…when I was a kid, there were no bald eagles in this part of the country and now I get to watch as a pair raises some eaglets over the summer…I just hope that people will stay the hell away from the nest and leave them in peace…but, with the morons I’ve seen on the trail lately, that is pretty unlikely…
Shut the hell up, donnie…
Well…finally, it appears that along with the world, the US is getting tired of the idiot in chief’s lies and bullshit….and the media is starting to call him out and ask tough questions that the dotard can’t lie his way through…on CNN the other day, Anderson Cooper just gave up and said “he’s lying” as they cut away from moron boy speaking…so now the toddler in chief has cancelled the daily coronavirus updates since he can’t just bullshit and bluster his way through anymore…and I think telling people to poison themselves with disinfectant cleaners and the resulting pushback has made the performances much less fun for the moron…so like the mental toddler he is, he is just going to stamp his feet and go on twitter to attack everyone in the damn country it seems….and that is the reason that lil donnie should just shut the hell up….if you’re not going to do something constructive, then just sit there in the WH with your hamberders and tv and let the rest of us get on with it…just shut…the…hell…up…
April 27th
Well…made it all the way to coffee o’clock this morning but went to bed late so I’m not sure how much of a success that is…at least it’s not 4:50 so I guess that’s something….and the soreness from cutting out the sod for the garden is subsiding and I can use my right arm again without much pain…and that is good since I need to get out and get potting soil, top soil, and grass seed this morning and re-seed the front yard to take advantage of the rain that is coming in tomorrow….and I need to re pot the tomatoes downstairs since the plants are up to 18 inches tall and I have 4 of them in each small pot…can’t wait to get them out in the garden…and I do need to try to get another double ride in today to make it to 1K before Thurs…only need 30 more miles so that goal looks attainable….still haven’t gotten my 1200 bucks and I am starting to get annoyed about that…but I haven’t checked this morning and I think this was supposed to be the week it gets deposited…we’ll see…not much to do today…just going to do the yard stuff today and might finish leveling off the back yard but that can wait…don’t want to aggravate the damage from cutting out the last sod so maybe I’ll wait a few days….more later….
The world weighs in on trump…
Well….the rest of the world is staring at the US and it’s non-existent national response to the coronavirus pandemic and have started to ask the question “what happened?” 30 million people out of work, food lines stretching for miles, and the highest death toll from the virus in the world…and they are finally getting the idea that it is trump’s fault…and they are starting to be honest about everything that the idiot boy has done…from shattering long term alliances, to shredding treaties that he doesn’t like, to embracing dictators around the world, they now have trump’s number and they are now not shy about weighing in on the incompetence and stupidity of the moron in chief….in just three short years, trump has taken this country from the respect that was built from WW II to his election to an international pariah who no one can count on anymore…and, for the first time in a century, absolutely no one is turning to the US for leadership or guidance…and, thanks to trump, American democracy is no longer worthy of admiration as he sows the seeds of hate and division…along with his prime enabler Mitch McConnell who just last week said that he will block any aid that helps any blue state…even though his state of Kentucky gets much more back from the federal government than they put in every year…subsidized by the very blue states who Moscowmitch wants to hurt. So, trump on his own in only 3 years has allowed our power and our respect in the world to wither away by his stupidity and 3rd grade view of how the world works….and the rest of the world has moved on and is laughing at him…the world has trump’s number and they are finally realizing that we are no longer trustworthy partners so they are going to go it alone….nice job you asshole….
Some good news….
Well….was sitting here getting ready to get out for the first bike ride this morning and my oldest son and his fiance called to causally let me know that they got married back last November but just decided that they shoud probably let people know…I laughed at that one since it is just so him…so some good news today made it a good day….and I got some work done, too…took the copper downspout down and took my little grinder to it there was so much peeling paint…got most of that off and I think I may be able to take the rest of the paint off with stripper now…it does look pretty cool with the shiny copper showing through…and I was going to paint it but I just couldn’t….so I put it back up and fixed the straps that hold it so now it is nice and sturdy and I can continue to try to get the rest of the paint off…used my grinder so much that the fap disk I had is used up so I had to stop….so I did get some work done this weekend…and now on to the yard tomorrow…..
April 26th
Well…I sure hope this is not the new normal…woke for the second day in a row at 4:50 and tried to go back to sleep for a while but no such luck…with very little sleep the past couple of days, and all of the work I’ve been doing, you would think sleep would be easy…but I guess that’s just not me….and the two day rule has reared it ugly head with the pain from chopping out the garden sod Friday landing on my right arm…can barely move it this morning but that’s not unexpected…but it’s going to be a few days before I can abuse it again…will probably need ibuprofen again this morning just to get on the bike…and I am going to do a double today to get to the 1K goal by the end of the month…supposed to be in the 60’s this aft so just shorts and a t-shirt for the afternoon ride will be cool and I can even go out in shorts for the morning ride….I may take the last copper downspout off to be able to try to get the paint off it…will probably have to paint it since I’m not sure if it is in good enough shape to just leave it…we’ll see after I get at the paint removal… I do know that I have to rework the straps that secure it so it won’t bang around in the wind as it does now….but, at least they are there and I don’t have to get new ones….not much to do today…okay, that’s not true…have plenty to do but I may choose to not do much…I’m already pretty worn out with the lack of sleep so I’m going to ease into it this morning and not really think about too much….more later….
Making progress…
Well…I still have to remind myself when I get depressed about how little progress I’m making on the house that I am still making progress…and today, the project was to clean up and repaint the downspout I found buried behind the garage…wasn’t even going to try to hang it today but it was dry when I got back from the second ride and I decided to just finish it and hang it….and it was pretty easy…only took about 10 minutes from start to finish and it looks pretty good and completes that side of the house…I’ve always hated the hole that was there without it and the water running off the roof left an algae streak down the side of the house…had to clean that off with a wire brush before I hung the spout and that got rid of one more dingy thing that should have been taken care of….so, when I sit down and think about it, I did get a lot done today…I did get the lawn mowed first thing…then on the bike for the first ride, then painted the downspout… swept out the garage, then made lunch and then back on the bike for another 15 that damn near killed me on the last climb but I survived it…then hung the downspout, cleaned up everything, and now back here for this one…so maybe I won’t get to a political one today…I did get to 950 miles for the year so far so it looks like I may be able to get to 1,000 before the end of April….man, I’m sore…
April 25th
Well…crap…up at 4:50 this morning and there really is no reason for it…especially after waking up at 2:30 for the first time….I should have been able to sleep more after all the work I did yesterday…you would think that would tire me out and make it easier but no, not me….oh, well….the ibuprofen worked last night and I don’t have nearly the pain I expected today….but that will probably come tomorrow with the two day rule…everything hurt like crazy last night and I found myself laughing about it when it hit…yeah, I know that’s weird but I feel good that I can still do all that stuff at my age…I do have a plan worked out in my head how to arrange the garden and got the idea to plant some garlic around the edges…it won’t look like normal garlic since you need to have that in the ground over the winter for it to develop the cloves that we normally see but it will have single cloves that have a milder garlic flavor that you can still use in cooking…and you can just plant the cloves you buy in the store….so that might be fun…I did get out on the bike yesterday and got a nice ride in but didn’t have time to get a second one in and I don’t think I will today, either…want to get started on painting the downspout so I can flip it over and do the front tomorrow…but right now I need coffee…did this one without it and that was just too damn much work….more later…
Got the garden ready…
Well…I’m really not sure what got into me this morning…all I was going to do was go out and clean the downspout so I can paint it over the weekend but, one thing led to another, and I got started on finishing cutting the sod out for the veggie garden…and three hours later, I had it done along with putting in the blocks for the walkway that runs down the center of it…and I used the sod that I took out to level the yard along the fence and fill that in instead of just piling it behind the garage….and that came out okay and it looks better so that is cool…but cutting out two sections of lawn that are 30 inches by 10 feet took a toll on every damn part of my body and I am really, really sore…and after the bike ride I couldn’t take it any more so I took some ibuprofen in the afternoon…something I very seldom do…and next week looks like I can get started on the outside since garden centers can re-open today and I can get out and get some topsoil and grass seed next week along with paint for the trim on the house…so it looks like I’m going to get really busy again but I’m only going to paint the downspout this weekend….too damn sore to do much else…and it will get worse Sunday…
More stupidity from the moron in chief…
Well….as if pushing an unapproved drug for coronvirus that kills people isn’t enough, the moron in chief yesterday told his stupid followers that “intense” UV rays and injecting disinfectant is the new cure…yep, you heard that bit of colossal stupidity right….he wants people to get 3rd degree sunburns and inject themselves with Lysol to “cure” the virus…and do you want to bet that some of his followers are going to do it? Look, repubs, I know you want more unqualified judges, but do you really want this idiot killing more people than the 60,000 he already has? Okay, we all know the answer to that…and it is yes…yes they do want to kill more people…especially if they are the brown and black people who are disproportionately killed by the virus. Why do you think Kemp wants to open Georgia? Because the right wing media is still pushing the idea that white people are immune and that is one of the reasons for the “demonstrations” by all white people to reopen the country….along with the whole “the cure is worse than the disease” lies that are pushed by the billionaires who are behind the idiot uprising. I am getting just so tired of having to live in a country run by a moron and his moron cronies…where every day we have to listen to someone who should be in a mental institution instead of the WH….just shaking my head….so much that it’s hurting my neck…