Tuesday, January 23, 2018

December 2017


December 2017

Friday 01- 73° | 44°
I did my stretches, yoga, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, and punched the heavybag. 
I did my laundry.
I put compost on all the outside plants and then watered it all down.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, sit-ups punched the heavybag, and went night jog.
I played my guitar for a spell

Saturday 02- 73° | 43°
I did my stretches, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag. I took the electric bike out for a ride.
I did my studies: history, geology, astronomy, meteorology, drew something, and practiced on my guitar for a while.
I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells, sit-ups punched the heavybag, and went night jog.

Sunday 03- 75° | 45°
I did my stretches, yoga went for a good mile jog, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag. 
Monday 04- 55° | 44°
I did my stretches, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag. 
Tuesday 05- 55° | 42°
I did my stretches, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag.
I went to 29 Palms to pick up a package and then to Stater Bros. to get some supplies.
Dogs escaped because I forgot to close the gate when I drove in. Rounded them up with the help of my neighbor Chris.
Kelly has been coming over these past few weeks feeding her dogs. Once I finished my 50 thousand word writing (Brain Dump) challenge on Nov 21, I finally have the time to unwind and watch “The Expanse” sci fi series with her.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, went for a mile jog, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag. Dang cold outside!
I did my studies: history, geology, astronomy, meteorology, drew something.
Wednesday 06- 63° | 43°
I did my stretches, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag, and rode my bike.
Went to Yucca Valley with Kelly and got Chinese takeout.
Thursday 07- 64° | 44°
I did my stretches, yoga, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag, and rode my bike.
I took the dogs out for an evening jog and did sit-ups and punched the heavybag for a spell.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, went for a night jog, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag.
Friday 08- 69° | 39°
I did my stretches, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, worked out with the 20lb dumbbells, sit-ups and punched the heavybag.
I visited my neighbor Kjtel. She found a mother pitbull with a bunch of puppies.
Saturday 09- Scattered Clouds 70° | 39°
I did my stretches.
I took the dogs for a nice long walk and the rest of the day off from exercising to do some work around the house. I loaded Win7 back on my HP G52 Laptop that’s having problems doing updates of Win10.





Sunday 10- Partly Cloudy 68° | 42°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups and punched the heavybag. 
I went to a open reading at Space Cowboy Books and read one of my poems. Lots of nice folks there also reading and sharing theirs. I had a great time even though I don’t like the spotlight focused on me.

Monday 11-  Scattered Clouds 73° | 39° a bit of rain.
I did my stretches.
Had breakfast over at my neighbor Kjtel’s house.
Loaded Win7 on my ToughBook’s new SSD drive.
I took the doggies on a long walk.

Tuesday 12- 72° | 41°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups and punched the heavybag. 
I took the dogs for a nice long walk over to my neighbor’s house for a visit.
Kelly came by to feed her dogs and we had dinner and watched a couple of episodes of “Dark Matter”.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, went for a night jog, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag.

Wednesday 13- 75° | 41°
I did my stretches, yoga, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups and punched the heavybag.
I started working on my old trailer out back getting it ready for visitors to stay in.

Thursday 14- 69° | 50°
I did my stretches.
I went to Palm Springs for an appointment to see my doctor- all is well :) 

Friday 15- 69° | 39°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag.
FedEx delivered my new Fender Mustang electric guitar. Very very excited to get one of these because I had one that was made in 1964 that was stolen along with my Fender Bassman Amp back in 74. I also ordered a Bassman Am that’ll be coming on the 20th.

Saturday 16- 60° | 43° rained.
I did my stretches and had to wait for the rain to stop to lift weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag.
My dogs escaped a couple of times. I need to fix my fence so this doesn’t happen again.

Sunday 17-  Scattered Clouds 57° | 42° and windy
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, exercised with the 20lb dumbbells, core trainer, situps and punched the heavybag.
Mended the fence so my critters don’t escape.

Monday 18- 62° | 35°
I did my stretches, core trainer, situps, punched the heavybag, and jogged a good mile.
I worked on mending of the fence that I didn’t finish yesterday.

Tuesday 19- 64° | 35°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag.

Wednesday 20- 66° | 35°
I did my stretches.

Thursday 21- 51° | 30° My cement pond froze telling me it’s the start of Winter!
I did my stretches. I went to Yucca to get a shot over at Desert Oases Medical Center. I did some shopping for supplies at Stater Bros. And when I got home took the doggies for a nice long walk.

Friday 22- 55° | 30°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag.

Saturday 23- 55° | 33°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag.
Took the doggies for a nice long walk.
I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, went for a night jog with Cassie, core trainer, and sit-ups punched the heavybag.

Sunday 24- 63° | 39°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag.
I took Cassie and then Barney each for a run next to the bike up the hill and back.
Linda Harter came by to drop off a few items of Ron’s for safekeeping and say her goodbyes.

Monday 25- 66° | 36°
My friend Kelly has been keeping her dogs here over a month now and coming by to feed them every evening. We usually have dinner and watch an hour of TV together. Today we had Christmas dinner of ham and yams and watched 5 episodes of Mr Robot. She bought two of these VR headgear that you put your cell phone in and ride rollercoasters or float through space- very strange feeling looking through them! 

Tuesday 26- 67° | 42°
I did my stretches, lifted weights, took the doggies with me for a mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, and punched the heavybag for a spell.

Wednesday 27- 73° | 43°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a good mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag and rode the bike.
Continued to clean out the trailer. I found four Commodore 64 with two disk drives, one cassette player, one printer, and a bunch of software to run on them. I wonder what I can get for them on Ebay?

Thursday 28- 73° | 42°
I did my stretches.
I went to Yucca Valley to see my doctor and have him sign some papers, but he was in his office in Twentynine and I had to drive all the way back there. I stopped off at Staters Bros. to pick up some supplies for new year’s eve.
I took the doggies for their walk.

Friday 29- 75° | 42°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag and rode the bike. 
On my ride I stopped to visit my neighbor Kjtel for a spell. She had a friend staying with her who is a French Chief and they wouldn’t let me leave until I tried her soup and it was mighty tasty.
Got back home

Saturday 30- 73° | 44°
I did my stretches, yoga, lifted weights, went for a two mile jog, core trainer, sit-ups, punched the heavybag and rode the bike.
I cooked up some rice for potluck at the community center. I arrived at 3:30 but no one was there and I thought it was called off and nobody told me. It was about 4pm and I was getting ready to leave for home when Dorothy and Dyan’s truck pulled up into the parking lot. I was really happy to see them knowing I wouldn’t have to go home to an empty house and eat only rice for dinner. Folks started showing up and we had about twenty folks there by the time we started munching away at all the yummy dishes of food everyone brought.

Sunday 31- 70° | 43°
I did my stretches.
I was coming home from visiting my neighbor Kjtel on my bike, trying to get through my gate when Cassie and Barney slipped by me and escaped, but came back at 10:30pm... bad dogs good dogs.
I went for my yearly new year’s eve run to up the hill in 2017 and come back down in 2018.

***************** goodbye 2017 and hello to 2018 ****************

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