Whirlwind Missions

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Spanish! Bike! 4.16.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:38 pm  

I studied Spanish this morning.

I’ve been doing extra work on verb forms.

Today I spent time thinking about subjunctive tenses.

Did my brain training.

Spent some time in my blue pool this morning catching some rays.

Good talk with my Mom.

Part of my Spanish training involves watching Telenovelas. El Dragón has been a good one.

I had a 20.36 mile bike ride today.

Perfect weather.

Absolutely gorgeous outside.



I still look for dirty money, although we don’t pick it up any more. This would be “25 down.”

I went through all my memorized material and then listened to radio from Madrid for an hour. Learning all these verb forms has really sped up my comprehension.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Trees! Bike! 4.15.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:13 pm  

It was a beautiful, cool day today.

I studied Spanish and did my brain training.




Went to get groceries.

I cleaned off every single item before I brought them in the house.

I cleaned and refilled the hummingbird feeders.

I had a FaceTime chat with a lawyer in London.

It was in regards to an accident that happened during the Hypnosis conference there in 2017. I helped a lady who got hit in the head by this big piece of wood that fell loose in the bathroom.

I cleaned Ivy off of one of my big pine trees today.


I cut the vines last year but it didn’t kill the ivy.

I read an article that said the vines can actually grow back together even if they’re cut!

This time I cut them and then ripped them all off from the bottom of the tree.


I have an oak tree that has a hole in it. I cleaned it out and am letting let it dry out now.

Then I’m gonna fill it with an expanding foam, so the water can’t collect at the bottom of the tree.

The research says that even if it happens the tree really isn’t hurt. The center part of the tree is actually dead. The only part of the tree that’s living are the outside edges. I never knew that!

I went for a 15.65 mile bike ride.

I’ll listened to radio from Madrid the whole time. The study I’m doing with verbs in the morning is helping the recognition of these words a lot.

I transported squirrel #99 from my yard today.

I started capturing and releasing them in a forest 5 miles from my house in 2018. That’s when I had several of them living in my attic. The exterminator guy said it was because there were so many squirrels in my area. So I continue to thin out the amount around my house. I haven’t had any more get in since then.

Tim A. Cummins
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VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Squirrels! Bike! 4.14.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 8:10 pm  

A beautiful, cool day today.

Paid bills.


Studied Spanish and did my brain training.



I glued a piece of plastic to a roof vent to keep it from leaking.

Transported two squirrels today.


I keep them covered to help them not be so scared.

Had a great talk with my buddy Anthony.

Recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Roaring Glory.”

Not even a week after my crash and it’s hard to tell where I even hit my head!
I have a few episodes in the can ready to go. The 999 episodes were before the pandemic.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “I On The Road” That was inspired by my bike wreck.

My little rosebush in my front yard is blooming.

Had a 15.42 mile bike ride today.

Gorgeous flowers along the way.


Worked on all the poems I know. Then listened to Spanish radio from Madrid and some of Harry Potter.

Tim A. Cummins
770-490-1668
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Whirlwindtim@Gmail.com
Timacummins@ Twitter & Facebook
VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

Monday, April 13, 2020

Roof! Bike! 4.13.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:36 pm  

I studied Spanish and did my brain training this morning.



Had a fun talk with my buddy Anthony.

Beautiful day today.

I ordered my groceries. I’ll pick them up on Wednesday.

I took my plants back outside. I have several that I bring in so they don’t get beat up too much with the heavy weather.

I recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Great Big Log.”

Had a fun talk with my Mom.

I love this view out my living room door. Reminds me of Africa.

I cleaned off my roof today and blew the gutters. It’s a hard job and dangerous because my roof is quite high.


Then I have to go down and blow off the deck and the cars in the driveway where stuff gets on it.

Also cleaned off the area outside my door, which also got a bunch of leaf litter on it.

Rained slightly over an inch last night from the big thunder storms that came through.

I like this newsletter that I get once a week called Book Freak. This particular section is on Victor Frankel‘s book Man’s Search For Meaning. I just watched an interview with him yesterday. I found that an interesting coincidence.

I started using a new bike helmet today. After I took my fall a few days ago, I was pretty sure that that my old helmet had lost it structural integrity.

I rode my bike 15.39 miles.

I did all of my memorized material which includes scriptures from the Bible as well as over 30 poems. I steadily quote material for about an hour!

After I finish that, I listened to radio from Madrid, Spain for about an hour.

I was a little bit cold today. It was comfortable but on a bike it can get chilly.

Tim A. Cummins
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Whirlwindtim@Gmail.com
Timacummins@ Twitter & Facebook
VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Easter! Tito! Grandgirls! 4.12.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 7:40 pm  

Happy Easter! I hope you had a great day!

I got an email from NASA about the Hubble telescope. I enjoyed seeing the pictures they took on my birthday.

Heavy weather is expected to blow through the ATL this evening. Hope everyone stays safe.

I spent a lot of time studying Spanish. Duolingo and verb study is becoming a regular task.

I enjoyed listening to my friend Tito Ruiz give the Easter service. He has a bilingual approach so it’s interesting to hear in English and in Spanish.

Ashley and the grand girls came by today. It was a pleasant surprise.

We worked together to make lemon squares. They’re very tasty.

I also did my brain training.

Gloomy weather today. Dark early. A day off from exercise.

Tim A. Cummins
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Whirlwindtim@Gmail.com
Timacummins@ Twitter & Facebook
VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Yard! Girls! 4.11.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:48 pm  

I studied Spanish and verbs this morning.

Did my brain training.


I cut up the big branch that fell in the front yard.


The wild flowers are beautiful now.

I continue to fill up my compost area with big sticks and logs.

I got ready to mow. This includes checking the lawnmower and using hearing protection.

I worked on my front yard for over four hours today.

That included mowing all the yard and mulching up the leaves.

I edged all the front yard.

Blew all of the debris off the driveway.

Washed some areas of it that got muddy.

I also cleaned the area outside my room.

Worked on St. Francis and cleaned him up.

Redid my windmills. One set shows the wind speed, the other direction.


Looks good!



My last jobs are to clean my shoes and applying poison ivy cleaner before taking a shower.

I saw two small sprigs of poison ivy today which I either dug up or mowed. My yard used to be be covered with it. It’s been a battle. I’m quite sensitive to that stuff.

Ashley and the girls came by for a visit. Always fun to see them!

Expecting heavy weather in the ATL tomorrow.

Friday, April 10, 2020

Podcast! Bike! 4.10.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 7:02 pm  

I studied Spanish this morning with Duolingo and and worked on irregular Spanish verb forms.


Did my brain training.


Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Best of the Worst.”

Recorded an episode called “I On the Road.”

A big tree limb broke off in my front yard this morning. It’ll be a tomorrow job to cut that up and move that to my backyard.


I had a nice chat with Anthony today.


I had a 15.42 mile bike ride.

Listened to a podcast by Guy Kawasaki and Stephen Wolfram, which was fascinating.

It was cooler today which made the bike ride a little chilly. Still felt great.

Tim A. Cummins
770-490-1668
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Whirlwindtim@Gmail.com
Timacummins@ Twitter & Facebook
VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Ashley and Girls! Bike! 4.9.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:50 pm  

I worked on Spanish with Duolingo and did some extra verb study.


I just noticed that today’s lesson had an egg on it!

Did my brain training.

Ashley and the grandgirls came over to visit with us today. We had an Easter egg hunt for the girls. They loved it!


My neck was feeling pretty sore today but overall I’m not too much worse for wear, except I look like I got beat up.

Since I took a substantial crash with my helmet, I’m ordering a new one. The helmets are not designed to take more than one big crash. Apparently they can lose their structural integrity. Sadly, Amazon prime is going to take about two weeks to get here rather than the normal two days!

Added some air to my bike tires.

While I was riding, I saw a family on their bikes. I heard a POP and sure enough the little girl’s tire was flat.

I rode my bike 15.44 miles. Got a bit cool at the end.

I loved the clouds today.

I’ve enjoyed studying the Wim Hoff method.


Today marks one year since I’ve been taking cold showers. There’s something psychological about facing that and lifting weights every day. I just feel tough. I guess that’s why even when I had my crash I wasn’t too uptight about it.

Tim A. Cummins
770-490-1668
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Whirlwindtim@Gmail.com
Timacummins@ Twitter & Facebook
VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Super Moon! Groceries! Bike Crash! 4.8.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 10:58 pm  

Fantastic pink super moon last night. It was pretty cloudy but still beautiful.


I studied Spanish this morning. I went over 25,000 points in Duolingo today. That’s a lot of lessons to get that many points!


Also continued studying verbs.

Did my brain training.


Cloudy, warm day today here in the ATL.

I picked up groceries from Walmart today. I have established a protocol for cleaning all of the groceries before I bring them inside.


I had a fun talk with my buddy Anthony Jacquin today. He’s always hilarious.

Also talked with my Mom in Texas.

I went for a 12 mile bike ride today.

Unfortunately, when I got to little past mile nine I had a bad crash. Today is trash day and they had left big trash bins on the sidewalk. I was going around one of the trash bins and my bike tire got caught between the sidewalk and the grass. Next thing I knew I was flying through the air and landed on my face. That’s never a good strategy.

Thankfully, I had my helmet on but I hit the ground so hard it still bruised my head. The visor got broken off and scratched my face up. I wrenched my neck when I crashed and cut up my knee as well. Otherwise I’m fine. Thankfully, I landed on the grass and not on some really hard surface. Otherwise, I probably would’ve wound up with a concussion. It was a tremendous crash that’s for sure. The worst I’ve ever had. I can tell exactly where it happened because the impact made Runkeeper stop!

I made it home fine. My back wheel’s a little bit bent but that’s all.

I saw the International Space Station for the 58th time tonight. It was beautiful as usual.



My favorite hedge.

I like this little tree branch that looks like a cross. I thought it was pretty. I hope everyone has a great Passover and holy week. Maximum love!

Tim A. Cummins
770-490-1668
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Whirlwindtim@Gmail.com
Timacummins@ Twitter & Facebook
VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

750! Webinar! 4.7.20

Tim A. Cummins @ 8:28 pm  

I studied Spanish this morning. I’m trying to go over Spanish verbs every day, too.


Also did my brain training this morning. I didn’t sleep well last night so my brain training wasn’t that great.

I released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called, “Pass It By!”

It was my 750th episode. That’s a lot of me yelling at a tape deck!

Over 15 days straight!

It was a cloudy day today and sprinkled some. Therefore, I didn’t ride my bike which was was a disappointment. After my last wreck, I made it a rule not to go on the roads if it’s even a little bit wet.

A lot of my flowers in my garden are blooming right now, including the sundew plant which is a very small species. The flowers are tiny little red beauties.

I’ve been impressed how well my wisteria has been growing since I dug up the little plants last year in Chamblee.

I had a good webinar today with my friend Anthony Jacquin and about 40 other people.

I continue to watch El Dragon which is really helping my Spanish.

I also watch Legends in English with Spanish subtitles. Every day a little better.

Been playing Doom.

Tim A. Cummins
770-490-1668
Whirlwindmissions.org
Whirlwindtim@Gmail.com
Timacummins@ Twitter & Facebook
VerbalSurgery.com. Podcasts

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