Well…that was about a normal night and out of bed at 5:13 but I still want to sleep better and more…feel pretty sore after edging the sidewalks yesterday and I may have to take something for it before I get on the bike…it’s cold here again at 54 so I’ll be in long pants for the first ride at least but it’s going to warm up pretty quickly once the sun comes up…need to run an errand to the library this morning and the out to Meijers to get the ammonia and to check if I can get another small pork shoulder on sale…don’t really need it with one in the fridge waiting to be cooked tomorrow but cheap protein is pretty rare these days…need to clean today but I’m not sure if it will be the bathroom or some windows or both…I guess we’ll see later…I did get the spare bedroom closet cleaned and tossed out some old pillow I had been storing there since I moved in and figured it was about time to dump them…and that made 2 weeks in a row I put the trash out…as I clean this place out to live simply, I like the uncluttered look that I will need expand to include the dining room…not much to today…looking forward to getting the car out for the errands today and getting a little drive in….more later…

Well…after getting the rides in, edging the sidewalks for the first time this year, and mowing the lawn, I thought to myself I’ve done enough and skipped going to Meijers to get the ammonia since I knew I wasn’t going clean any windows today…I mean, 5 hours of hard work is enough for one day and my entire upper body hurts after wrestling the edger around for an hour and a half…and mowing didn’t help, either, so I’m taking the afternoon off to watch soccer and read and I’ll make the run to Meijers tomorrow…really don’t have a lot to get on the grocery run this week other than milk and a bag of pretzels…have the pork shoulder to make tomorrow and that should keep me fed for the rest of the week and I have another dozen eggs to make for omelets and egg salad…time for soccer..

Well…up really early…again…but I feel okay so I must have slept okay…I know I didn’t toss and turn as much as I normally do so I guess that’s something…it’s going to be a busy day today with getting the rides in and then either mowing the lawn or heading for Meijers for ammonia depending on how dry the grass is…I’ll still do both but it’s the sequence that’s in question…and I need to edge the walks today so I’ll be sore tomorrow…started a 1973 mystery novel yesterday and I think it will be okay…need to finish it tomorrow so I can hit the library after the grocery run Wed…it’s only 56 here right now and I’m still wondering when summer is going to get here so I can get to the beach…it’s going to be weird not having beer for the beach runs but I guess coffee will have to do…going to make the pork shoulder tomorrow since I just have too much work to do today and won’t get done til noon or so and I want to make the pork for lunch…I did hear from 3 of my kids for father’s day yesterday and surprised the hell out of me…I really shouldn’t say not much to do today since I’ll be working my butt off all morning after the rides….more later…

Well…it was only 51 when I went out for the first ride this morning but it did warm up enough to get out in shorts for the 2nd ride and I saw tons of deer out there…that was kind of fun and I actually saw 3 bucks today which is pretty unusual…haven’t really accomplished anything else today without any ammonia to do the windows…I did get a father’s day message from my daughter saying “only 91 days til Italy” and that made me laugh…and my oldest son and daughter in law sent me a video of them out on the trails with father’s day wishes…and that was cool…the rest of the day was filled with soccer and races and reading and I have one book left to start and will do that after I make ice and clean my teeth…so that will put me back to Tuesday for the library run after hitting Meijers tomorrow for the ammonia…time for ice and reading…rain coming…

Well…damn, it’s only 51 degrees out there and that is just wrong for the end of June…it’s the summer solstice today with the most sunlight of any day of the year and it’s all downhill from here…I still can’t believe how cold it’s been this spring and it looks like I won’t get to the beach until July and that’s never happened before…I’ve been in the water by now every year I’ve lived out here and it sucks that it’s too cold to go to the beach…I’ll be wearing long pants for the first ride today when I get out by 6:30 but I hope it warms up enough to be in shorts for ride 2…I did get scorched from just standing outside yesterday so I’ll have to watch that…I did shift down to 50 sunscreen since I don’t like how my skin looks using the 100…a little sun won’t kill me…I hope…still don’t have to cook today but need to do the pork shoulder in the fridge tomorrow and I have all of the ingredients for Masala for later in the week so I will have food…and I’m going to hard boil some eggs today for egg salad tomorrow…and I have 10 pounds of potatoes so I’ll make some potato soup this week, too…not much to do today…just need to get the weight work done before I go out so I won’t forget to do it….more later…

Well…it wasn’t a bad day here but I am going to have to get used to how much light the clean windows let in the kitchen…pretty darn bright…had a pretty normal day today and went over 3,000 miles combined on the bike and that is way under what I’ve done any year…I know the weather has been crappy but I don’t remember taking any time off the bike..I mean since the weather got warm enough, I’ve been out for 26 miles a day…but I have to relax since I have no goals this year but to ride every day so I guess I should just enjoy it…went out to check if I had any ammonia in the garage…I didn’t…and on the way back to the house my neighbor said hi and we stood there over the fence just shooting the shit for almost 2 hours and that was a little neighborly..and fun…found out they have been really pushing on the rental people to shut the hell up since Connie works from home and her office faces on the idiot in the rental and can hear these drunks out there all day…and without sunscreen on, I got a little pink standing in the sun…made for a nice day…now it’s race time…

Well…how the heck can I be running late at 6:15am? But I am…normally I have this done already and I’m putting sunscreen on to get ready for the bike but not today…so I need to haul butt and get going…I did get 3 windows in the kitchen cleaned yesterday but my poor planning is going to keep me from doing more til Monday…didn’t look to see how much ammonia I had and only had enough to do one batch of windows and blinds and I’m not going to Meijers on the weekend…but it is nice to have those windows cleaned since they are the ones that I let light in when I get up in the morning…didn’t sleep much last night but the coffee is pouring down quickly so I think I can cope with it…and I made more coffee this morning to ensure I have enough to take a cup on the 2nd ride…I did break out the new earbuds that I’ve had in the drawer for almost a year now since I thought the old ones were going to fail but never did…but the sheath on the wires was falling apart and looked pretty shabby so I set the equalizer in the mp3 player to match them and they sound good…and the old pair lasted years so I may just buy another set for a spare…not much to do today…I am going to continue cleaning the kitchen today and I don’t need to cook so it will be an easy day after the rides…more later…

Well…having been a slug for too long so getting some work done was necessary today…and I did…got the kitchen windows torn apart and cleaned along with the blinds on them…and now I only have 8 more to do…I did get two rides in today since the weather was much nicer than yesterday and saw a freighter I’ve never seen just cruising down Muskegon Lake and I still think that’s cool to have huge freighters in downtown Muskegon…still need to do the weight work and I’ll get to that right after I’m done with this…the US is playing it’s 2nd game against Australia right now so I’ll be watching that for a while at least…it looks like it’s going to rain again tonight but not much and then no rain for at least 10 days so the lawn goes away again…oh, well…okay, want to watch the game and get the work done…1-0 US 10 minutes in…yay!

Well…as I was getting to the wake up post here, I noticed that I’ve gone over 14,000 posts since I started this thing years ago and I’m not sure if that’s an accomplishment or just habit and I wonder how many hours it’s taken me to get here? I do know that when my site was down, I really missed coming here and doing this…and, while I like Mastodon and the friends I have there, my self limitation of no politics there left me with no outlet for my outrage on the state of this country…and I really need that to defuse it so it doesn’t pollute my day…so, to my readers who come here every day, thank you…and I’ll try to keep it up…

Well…not out of bed til 5:30 this morning and I think that’s because I just didn’t get up until I saw the light starting to come through my bedroom window…tossed and turned a bunch but didn’t give up and I’m rewarded by feeling okay this morning…it looks calm out there today and it’s going to be sunny and with it already 60, the rides should be good today and I’ll be out before 7…made the first whole bean coffee in a while today and even though I can’t taste much, I can tell the difference and it tastes good…and I’ll keep looking for affordable stuff on amazon and try to buy more…I have been enjoying the world cup and the USA plays Australia this afternoon and I’m hoping it’s a good match…if we win, it’s on to the knockout round and we win the group…not sure if we’ve ever done that before…made chicken stir fry yesterday that will last me til next week so that pushes the pork shoulder back til Monday or so and I can live with that…I am going to start on the windows today and at least get the ones in the kitchen done along with scrubbing the blinds in there…and I may as well get the rest of the cleaning done, too, so that will be a couple of hours of work and one thing off my list…more later…