September 2020

 

September 2020 

Tuesday 01- 107/82F hazy skies. I did a light workout: I did my stretches, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and punched on the heavybag.

I didn’t do much today. I could have started up my studies again. I haven’t done them in a week or two, maybe tomorrow I will. I have been working on a couple of new songs I made up working on the words and chords.

The Moon was too bright for me to go outside and gazed out at the universe.

Wednesday 02- 105/75F I did my stretches. 

I drove over to visit my good friends Larry and Bonnie over in Landers.

I then drove to Home Depot to get some potting soil for the compost toilet.

Thursday 03- 110/84F and hazy. I did a heavy workout: I did my stretches, jogged a mile, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and punched on the heavybag.

Friday 04- 111/79F a nice breeze to cool me off. I did my stretches, jogged a mile, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and punched on the heavybag.

I did all my studies except French... I am reconsidering learning it because I’ve tried and it seems to me if I ever had to learn it I’d have to go to France or Quebec and talk to those folks there.

I did yoga, exercised with the 10lbs dumbbells, and took Cassie for an evening mile jog.

Saturday 05- 112/81F hot! I did my stretches, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and punched on the heavybag.

I did my studies.

Took Cassie for an evening walk.

I took a picture of the Sunset this evening... lots of smoke to the west from the El Dorado fire near Yucaipa.

I just saw the Moonrise up in the eastern sky and Mars was right next to it, like Mars was riding atop the Moon across the heavens...

Sunday 06- 113/83F heavy with smoke from the El dorado fire finally made its horrid way to our little community that blocked out the sun and made my lungs hurt, nose run, and my eyes sore. You couldn’t see much over a mile it was so thick. I did my stretches

Monday 07- 115/82F with heavy smoke. I woke up to smoke-filled skies this morning. With all the riots, pandemics, hurricanes, heat-waves, and fires going on, I now believe the Mayan calendar was off by 8 years.

I did my stretches 

Tuesday 08- 115/84F heavy with smoke. I did my stretches.

UPS delivered the new battery for my scooter and I put it in now something else is wrong and it will not start. I’ll have to recharge the new battery tomorrow.

Wednesday 09- 86/61F Can you believe it! Finally a break in the heat! Yay!

Wow! What a change in the weather! I got up this morning and the temp was 68 degrees and all the smoke that's been choking us had blown away... thank goodness because I don't know how much longer I could have taken being cooped up in the house not able to finish projects I had started before the heat spell that lasted for months. I was able to do my exercises in the heat if it was under 106F degrees but this heavy smoke stopped all that. The hottest days on record combined with the smoke made it seem like Hell himself/herself has risen out of the bowels of the Earth to invade our beautiful desert.

I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, and took Cassie for a mile jog. Feels good to get out of the house and jog in the fresh desert air again.

The new battery I put in the scooter was dead when I tried to start it this morning. I charged it up and tried starting the scooter but it wouldn’t go. Seems it’s not getting fuel to the carburetor. I wasn’t planning to spend any more time on this, so it’ll have to wait until some future date. I called my insurance company and told them to take it off my policy.

I worked on building a battery box with lithium batteries of six batteries of 12v 8ah. When I get it done I’ll have a 48ah 12v system in a battery container. 

I did my evening exercises with the 10lbs dumbbells.

Linda and then Jeff came at the same time with their trash to put in my dumpster. Almost couldn’t get their trash all inside.

I did my nightly exercises with the 15lbs dumbbells.

Thursday 10- 91/63F. I did my stretches and took Cassie for a mile jog.

I did all my studies. I decided French would be just too difficult finding the time needed to study it would take away from my other projects. 

The only local news around here is from a radio station and the Hi-desert Star newspaper of which I used to post my weekly column. Both are online now. I do go to Google News feed to glance over what's happening in the world so I stay informed but only a few articles I actually open. So, I'm not entirely ignorant of what's going on in the world. I like to pick what I find interesting and not to be spoon-fed my news :)

Friday 11- 94/66F hazy light smoke from the fires. I did heavy exercises today: I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, and hit on the heavybag. 

Jimmy made a quick stop off at my home to say hi. He was up here signing papers to sell his house here. I hope this isn’t the last time I see my good friend.

I spent most of the day washing clothes and bedding.

Remembering an old friend:

It's been 15 years now since your passing and I still tell people of your magic screwdriver. We were working on Joice's old truck that was always falling apart and you'd fix. Well, something went wrong with the engine and it accelerated while you were working on it. "No problem," you said as you held up the magic screwdriver and stuck your head under the hood. It began to whine even louder to high-pitched complaining shriek that my dog Blackie ran off and I stepped back a few feet. I thought the engine was going to rattle itself apart or blow up. I had a quick idea come to my head and I reached into the driver's side and turned the key to off. I had kidded you about that screwdriver ever since... even now! 

I miss you, Mr. Kern Watson.

Saturday 12- 97/67F smoky hazy. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, and hit on the heavybag. 

Sunday 13- 100/69F smoky hazy. I did my stretches. 

I walked up the hill to meet my new neighbor. His name is Dave and seems to be a nice guy. Right now he’s living in a very nice trailer and moving things from his old residents down near LA to his desert property here in wonderful Copper Mountain Mesa.

Monday 14- 101/70F smoky hazy. Not feeling well. Must have been something I ate. I did a little work on the pool cover but that’s all I did.

Tuesday 15- 102/70F smoky skies. I did my stretches.

Wednesday 16- 103/70F heavy smoke!

I took Cassie for a short walk and just stayed inside.

Kjtel and Bodhi came back from their trip up north and dropped by to say howdy and tell me about their trip.

Thursday 17- 104/70F hazy smoke. I did my stretches.

Me and my guest, who has no means of transportation, went to town to get our blood work done at LabCorp. I weighed myself, 179 pounds while waiting for the nurse to draw my blood. I seemed to have lost some weight, I hope that’s a good thing. The nurse had two orders to draw blood, one from my Doctor and one from the Wellness Clinic. She said she would have to draw them twice for each order. I asked her if they had the same requests for what was to be tested. She said yes. I told her just to draw one order because they’ll both get the same report.

We then drove across the street to get our flu shots at a drive-thru flu clinic. Then it was on to Vons to do our shopping- I like Vons because there aren't that many people there wandering around getting in my way and crowding me. We were all done except to pick up her prescriptions at Rock’s that took almost a whole hour waiting outside in the hot smoky weather. Stopped off at Steak and Shake to get burgers, fries, and two Dr Peppers. We were gone for four hours and I was pooped but managed to take my poor Cassie for a walk before I collapsed on the bed.

Friday 18- 105/71F damn hot with heavy smoke. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 50 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

Took Cassie in the car with me when I went to the mailbox. I need to get her comfortable riding in the car again, so when we go on vacation it won’t be much of a problem for her... and for me. 

In the afternoon I worked out with the 10lb dumbbell and did 50 crunches.

In the evening I did my stretches, worked out with the 15lb dumbbells.

I took Cassie for a midnight mile run and did 50 more crunches.

At the end of the day, I had done two-hundred crunches because I saw a video when I woke up with Arnold saying you need to do two-hundred crunches a day. I think he meant all at once but I spaced them out at fifty four times a day.

Saturday 19- 102/69F smoky in the morning with light haze later on in the day. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

In my evening workout, I exercised with the 10lb dumbbells and did 50 crunches.

I took Cassie for a light night mile run and did 50 crunches.

Sunday 20- 102/70F hazy. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

I called my brother Kevin and we chatted for a spell.

I did my evening workout with the 10lbs dumbbells and did 50 crunches.

My guest barbecued pork and made some yummy hummus for dinner.

Dave, my new neighbor, dropped off his generator for safekeeping while he’s gone to Newport beach.

I took Cassie for a late-night mile run and did 50 more crunches. I like running at night... in the daytime, I seem to only jog but at night I run.

I went outside after our run like I’ve been doing almost every night this month when the sky was dark and clear. I watched Mars

Monday 21- 102/69F smoky hazy.  I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

I did my evening workout with the 10lbs dumbbells and did 100 crunches.

Tuesday 22- 104/77F smoky.  I did my stretches and a 100 crunches, I thought I’d lay off the heavy lifting of weight for a day.

In the evening I did 100 crunches.

I took Cassie for a mile night run and then came back to sit outside and watch the stars. 

Wednesday 23- 99/68F smoky.  I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

I did my evening workout with the 10lbs dumbbells and did 100 crunches.

Kjtel and Bodhi   David

Thursday 24- 101/67F smoky. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

I took my guest to Twentynine Palms to get our mail and also she had to take care of some business while we were there. We did some shopping at Stater Brothers and the 99 cent store. We drove through BurgerKing and got 2 burgers. I got a fish sandwich that was so yummy I want to get back there as soon as I can, and she got the chicken sandwich but after I let her taste my fish sandwich she wished she went for it instead.

I was kinda burned out from all the shopping and stuff that when we got back all I did was relax and enjoyed a movie on Netflix.

Friday 25- 97/66F still smoky. I just don’t do any jogging on smoky days. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

I helped my new neighbor run a water line to tap into my water system which he can use until he gets his own water on his property.

I did my evening workout with the 10lbs dumbbells and did 100 crunches.

I did my late-night stretches and worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells.

Saturday 26- 99/66F hazy. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

I did my evening workout with the 10lbs dumbbells and did 100 crunches.

I did my late-night stretches and worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells, and took Cassie for a mile run.

Sunday 27-  98/67F 100 very smoky. I did my stretches and crunches morning

Talked to Kula and then my Brother

100 crunches evening

Monday 28- 96/65F clear. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 225 crunches, and beat on the heavybag.

I did my evening workout with the 10lbs dumbbells and did 100 crunches.

I did my late-night stretches and worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells, and took Cassie for a mile run. I twisted my right ankle halfway through the run and had to continue to run the rest of the way home. I’ll not be doing any running or jogging for a few days. I can say that I did 325 crunches today!

Tuesday 29- 92/66F a little bit hazy. I kinda wonder when these forest fires are going to stop. I did my stretches, core trainer, weight bench, 100 crunches, and beat on the heavybag. Cassie and I went for a bike/run up to our new neighbor’s house to say hi. She really loves to run with me on the bike. After our visit, we then continued to ride for another mile. 

I went to my appointment to get my pneumonia shot in Yucca Valley. On my way, I mailed off Tom Merrit’s late birthday card. His birthday was in January, so I guess you can say I’m late and at the same time really early. There was a nurse checking patients for the COVID flu before they could enter the building. I was in and out in about 20 minutes and happy to get out of there!

Went shopping afterwards, got a pizza and some fried chicken to eat while me and my guest watch the Presidential Debates tonight. The debate lasted 90 minutes but seemed like it’d never end. I’m really not all that political and I believe it was more of a yelling match than a debate; both men were really rude to one another. Who won the debate? It doesn’t matter because both sides will say their side won and use little bits and pieces as talking points in their election campaigns. 

I did my evening workout with the 10lbs dumbbells and did 100 crunches.

Wednesday 30- 101/67F smoky hazy. I felt kinda sick from that pneumonia shot I had yesterday, so I kicked back and read most of the day. I did do my morning stretches and 200 crunches though.

Kjtel came by with Bodhi for a little visit.

*************** Poems for September 2020 **********

Looking at the past through photos capturing a moment in space and time makes me feel a kinda peace and reminiscence of the lives of those in the photo and their stories left unwritten, untold and have vanished into dust over these long years until I write something...

~RD

I would not consider any religion that didn’t take the notion of all creatures having souls and this is what gives us life versus lifeless inanimate objects like a stone or a toaster. My playful dog Cassie agrees.

~RD

Sometimes we walk alone upon this earth of ours and miss the companionship of our fellow homo sapiens. Reminiscing on their joys, antics, and laughter they brought in these times of our silent wanderings...

~RD

Your mind is connected to your tongue, so you are responsible for what comes out of your mouth and once spoken you have to live with the consequences 🙂

~RD

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August 2020

 

August 2020 

Saturday 01- 113/84F with heavy smoke. I did my stretches, core trainer, and worked out on the weight bench.

I did my yoga, exercised with the 15lbs dumbbells, setups, and took Cassie for an evening mile jog.

At midnight I did my stretches, worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells, setups, and went for a fast run up the hill and back with Cassie.

No studies today.

Sunday 02- 109/75F totally smokey. I did my stretches, core trainer, and worked out on the weight bench.

I did all my studies throughout the day, even the French lesson.

I talked to Kevin for a spell.

I took Cassie for an evening mile jog.

At midnight we went for a walk over to check on a neighbor’s house.

Monday 03- 109/76F very smokey. I did my stretches, core trainer, and worked out on the weight bench.

I heard that Judy and Denny were at their cabin and hopped on the eBike and rode on over for a short chat. They are doing well and getting things back together after some bad people in the area broke into their house. They know who it was because a neighbor followed the tire tracks to the house. A friend went over there and warned them that really bacd consequences will befall them if they steal from this area again.

UPS delivered my Harley carburetor brand new in the box.

I did yoga, exercised with the 15lbs dumbbells, setups, and took Cassie for an evening mile jog.

At midnight I did my stretches, worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells, setups, and went for a fast run up the hill and back with Cassie.

Tuesday 04- 106/76F windy and smokey. I did my stretches, core trainer, and worked out on the weight bench.

I called BFF Lary Carlock to wish him a Happy Birthday. We chatted for a short while because his daughter and others came down from up north to visit him. He will call me on my Birthday and we’ll have a longer jawing session.

I did yoga, exercised with the 15lbs dumbbells, setups, and took Cassie for an evening mile jog.

At midnight I did my stretches, worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells, setups, and went for a fast run up the hill and back with Cassie.

Wednesday 05- 103/69F windy and very smoky. I did my stretches and took the day off from most of my exercising because of the smoke in the air.

I did all my studies.

I took Cassie for a midnight run up the hill.

Thursday 06- 102/68F I did my stretches, core trainer and worked out on the weight bench. 

Took Kelly, my guest, to pick up medicine for her cat at her private post office in Twentynine Palms.

Jeff brought his Dell laptop over for me to fix. He has been hacked. I had him call his bank and other important sites and have his passwords changed... What I will do on his laptop is a clean install and set it back to factory specs since it's a new computer and he hasn't any pictures and documents on it. Otherwise, I would have had to try and get his data off first and then do a clean install.

Took Cassie for a mile jog at sunset. I exercised with the 10lbs weights and did situps.

Friday 07- 100/70F still a lot of smoke. I did my stretches, core trainer, and worked out on the weight bench.

Had to curtail my outside activities because of the smoke in the air, but I restringed my punching bag and hung it up. It’s been lying there waiting for me to do this for a few years. Now I have something to take my aggressions out on ;)

Oh, and I did my laundry.

Saturday 08- 103/74F hazy with smoke. It’s my Birthday, so I took the day off.

My BFF Larry Carlock called to sing Happy Birthday to me. So did a few other friends. I guess they’re getting back at me for singing Happy Birthday to them throughout the years. I spent a lot of time thanking the friends leaving birthday wishes on FaceBook.

Sunday 09- 107/75F smokey but not too bad. I did my stretches, core trainer, and worked out on the weight bench.

I finally decided that the pump to the pool was good enough to drill a hole into the tub. I’ve been reluctant to drill the hole until now.

I talked to Kevin for a spell.

I took Cassie for an evening walk.

Monday 10- 106/71F clear and hot. I did my stretches, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and punched the hell out of the punching bag.

Swept out the patio of all the dead debris it has collected over the years. I should make this a monthly chore... I’ll put it on my list.

Another thing I’ll add to my monthly list is cleaning the kitchen counter- it gets mighty dirty and I seem to forget to clean it. Maybe I should put this one on a weekly list? Okay, I’ll make up a weekly and monthly list and hang it somewheres so I can see it and check it off.

I did some electrical work in the bathroom connecting up a new wall plug. Took me more time finding all the tools and parts than it took to finish the job. 

I took Cassie for an evening mile jog, and then I did setups and worked out with the 10lbs weights.

The garbage truck is coming tomorrow, so I took out all the trash. I let my neighbors use it because I seldom fill it up myself and there is extra room. This time it was pretty full before I got my own stuff in.

I took Cassie for a midnight run up the hill, I exercised with the 15lbs dumbbells and did setups.

I completed all my studies for today.

Tuesday 11- 106/73F clear. I did my stretches, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and pounded on the punching bag.

I did some more work on the electrical wiring of the house trying to find out what is causing the drain on my batteries. I took a long soak in the tub afterwards.

I did all my studies for today.

I took a very long evening walk with Cassie.

I took my dog Cassie outside to watch the Perseids Meteor Shower. I’ve been watching the night skies for the past two months, now that the weather is nice and clear. There has been a celestial race going on between Jupiter and Saturn to see who gets to the Teapot (and asterism in Sagittarius) first. Jupiter is in the lead with Saturn right behind with Mars rising out of the eastern skies getting into the race rather late.

I saw some nice fireballs bright red in color and many fainter ones. The meteors were spaced about 5 to 10 minutes apart but there were times when they rained down minutes apart. It was a very pleasurable four hours watching the show the night sky put on for me and my dog. I'll be out there again tonight :)

Wednesday 12- 108/81F and muggy. I did my stretches, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and hit on the punching bag for a spell.

I did my yoga, worked out with the 10lbs dumbbells, and jogged a mile with Cassie. I took a long soak in the tub to cool down.

I took Cassie for a midnight run up the hill and then finished with a jog around the block. I worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells and did some situps. We sat outside for an hour or so watching for any more meteors, saw a few but not as many as yesterday.

I didn’t do any studying today because I wanted to write a story I have an idea for.

Thursday 13- 107/81F again muggy. I went to the post office in Twentynine Palms to pick up a package containing another ToughBook CF-30. I filled up my little Spark and then headed over to Stater Bros. to get some supplies and made a stop at Burger King for their 2 for 1 special. I ordered 2 Whoppers, one to give to my guest living in her trailer out back.

I took Cassie for a midnight jog around the block that I found out was a whole mile. I didn’t run up the hill like I started to do this month because of the mugginess of the weather. We sat outside for an hour or more but the sky was getting some clouds moving in.

Friday 14- 111/84F afternoon thunderstorm and downpour. I did my stretches, and a lite workout on the core trainer, and the weight bench, I hit on the punching bag for a short spell.

I was working on my Harley in the process of removing the gas tank when all hell broke loose with a torrent of rain and lightning and thunder. I had to shut all my electric down just in case lightning struck near.

The internet was really slow, almost at dialup speed, so I turned off the modem and decided to do my studies instead.

Took Cassie for a late evening mile jog around the block. The sky was clear when we got back and we sat outside for a long period of time watching the magnificent night skies.

Saturday 15- 112/85F with lots of humidity. I did my stretches, core trainer, worked out on the weight bench, and hit on the punching bag for a spell.

Found out the Hard Drive Caddys for my two Toughbook CF-18 I ordered were IDE and not SATA connections. I messaged the seller and his response was mostly too bad for you. He wanted to sell me the right ones for $30. I will give a bad review. Now I have to figure out a way to connect the two SATA drives up to IDE. I found a converter at Amazon and ordered it.

Sunday 16- 114/85F with humidity. I worked on my Harley out in the garage where it was 114 degrees. I finally got the gas tank off and found a mess of tangled wires. Whoever worked on this before must have been on some kinda hallucinogenic... plus she's been in storage for a few years and collected a lot of grunge. I have my work cut out for me but I'll get her done. I soaked in the tub for a long while to cool off.

I talked to Kevin for a spell.

Around 10PM I took Cassie for a mile jog around the block. When we ended our jog I kicked back in my Star Chair (my new Zero Gravity Reclining Lounge Chair) to gaze at the stars. I saw several meteors, a couple of satellites. But right now I am observing Delta Cephei in the constellation Cepheus with my binoculars. It is a variable star with a period of 5.33-day rise and fall of brightness and is the star that gives its name to Cepheid Variables. After watching it for a few days I believe the star is at its lowest brightness. This is the type of variable star Edwin Hubble found in the Andromeda Galaxy in 1923 (called the Great Andromeda Nebula at the time and was thought to be inside the Milky Way) and this changed forever the way we view the universe. The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away and the farthest object you can see with the naked eye.

I finished formatting and uploading my eBook “The Copper Mountain Mesa Series” all 626 pages of it to the Amazon Kindle site. The paperback one has been out for a few months now and it is one heavy book!

Monday 17- 114/89F clear skies. I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell. Just too dang hot and humid to do anything else. I did some of my studies and sat outside around midnight to watch the night sky for around an hour or so as the clouds moved in. I was able to catch a glimpse of Delta Cephei and it appeared to be even dimmer than last night's observation. 

Tuesday 18- 110/84F I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell. Just too dang hot and humid to do anything else.

Bonnie and Larry came by early to visit after going to the USDA food distribution to give me the food they didn’t want. Jeff came by with my USDA bag of goodies.

Battery failure of my ASM batteries. I’m guessing they got too hot. I switched them out with the 100AH lithium-ion battery. 

Lightning caused a fire in the JTNP around 1pm Tuesday and I took some pics of it as it first started and sent them to the Hi-Desert Star newspaper where they used them in their first post of the fire. It was called the Sunfair fire that ended up consuming 100 acres. I also received an email from the Star to use my name for my response to an unrelated story.

Wednesday 20- 111/83F with a few clouds. I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell. Again it was just too dang hot and humid to do anything else. 

Thursday 20- 111/82F mostly hazy. I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell. The weather was again too dang hot and humid but I did manage to go climb up the ladder to the roof and replace the little 10watt solar panel to my fan with a 20watt panel that arrived today. The tools I had to work with became almost too hot to handle but I managed to finish the job.

I figured out a way to change the ToughBook CF18 drive from IDE to SATA by using a converter I ordered that arrived today. Unfortunately with the converter added to the SSD drive wouldn’t fit in the caddy. I came up with an idea that I could shorten the SSD drive, so I took it apart to find the actual drive workings take up less than half of the enclosure. So I put everything back together and was able to load up Windows XP; success!

Cassie and I ran up the hill but walked down instead- it was still 97F at 11PM.

Friday 21- 104/82F mostly hazy and lots of humidity. I did my stretches. I thought I needed a few days of rest. I played with my computers.

Saturday 22- 103/81F hazy with a few clouds. I did a light workout today- I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell.

I took Cassie for a short walk and sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while.

Sunday 23- 108/80F  I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a spell.

I called and talked to a few friends; Larry Carlock, and yapped with my Kevin for a long spell.

I sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while.

Monday 24- 110/85F I did my stretches.

I sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while.

Tuesday 25- 110/80F I did a light workout today- I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell.

Linda Joan passed last September

UPS delivered my batteries I ordered and a few items were missing. I called Amazon and they will take care of it.

The trash truck didn’t pick up my trash. Maybe they were full and will get mine tomorrow.

Did a mile midnight jog with Cassie and then sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while.

Wednesday 26- 110/78F with a hot wind blowing out of the southwest. I did heavy exercises today. I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell and jogged a mile without Cassie; just too hot for her paws.

I waited all day but the trash truck didn’t show. I will call them tomorrow to complain.

I found that most of the batteries didn’t have a charge when I checked them with my voltmeter.......

I did my stretches, worked out with the 10lb dumbbells, and took Cassie for an evening mile jog. 

I did my stretches, worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells, and took Cassie for a midnight mile jog. I run up the hill as fast as I can and then jog the rest of the way. This makes a total of 3 miles I jogged today. I sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while.

Thursday 27- 108/77F clear. I did light exercises today. I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell and jogged a mile without Cassie; just too hot for her paws.

I went to Yucca Valley with my guest tagging along to pick meds and do some shopping for supplies.

I took Cassie for a night run but I was so burned out from going to town we only made it to the top of the hill and back. I sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while.

Friday 28- 107/77F with a nice breeze blowing out of the SW. I did light exercises today. I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell and jogged a mile without Cassie; just too hot for her paws.

I worked around the house doing the little things that take bunches of time.

I restrung my guitar- sounds a lot nicer and easy on my fingers with the new Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings.

I took Cassie for a night’s mile jog and then sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while.

Saturday 29- 104/72F I did heavy exercises today. I did my stretches, core trainer, exercised on the weight bench, I punched on the punching bag for a short spell and jogged a mile.

I talked to my Sis Lynn for over an hour about things and times gone past.

I did my afternoon exercises with the 10lbs dumbbells, situps, and went for a mile jog with Cassie.

I worked out with the 15lbs dumbbells and took Cassie for a fast run up the hill and then jogged the rest of the mile.

Finally, I saw a brightening of delta Cephei after weeks of watching the night sky for it to change in brightness. 

Sunday 30- 102/74F. I did my stretches. Rest day :)

I talked to Kevin for a spell.
I took Cassie out for a short walk, and we sat outside watching the stars until they were washed out by the Moon.

Monday 31- 102/78F. I did a heavy workout: I did my stretches, jogged a mile, core trainer worked out on the weight bench, and punched on the heavybag. It feels good to have the heavybag all fixed and ready to take my frustrations out on.

I did my afternoon exercises with the 10lbs dumbbells and took Cassie for a mile jog.

I did my nightly exercises with the 15lbs dumbbells and ran up the hill as fast as I could and then jogged the rest of the mile with Cassie. I don’t know how she can be overweight with all the running and jogging we do. Maybe I should give her smaller portions when I feed her.

I sat outside and gazed out at the universe for a while. The Moon is so bright it washes out the stars, tomorrow it will be full.

************** Poems for August 2020 *****************

Take pause my friend, move beyond the rhetoric of the day, beyond this veil of promised dreams built upon lies by those who try to persuade and deceive us. Resist the urge to be a follower of what’s popular at the time, become independent, evolve to live in the moment, and become your own person. Do not live in the delusion of others.

~RD

Pull and drag, rip and tear your way out of that chrysalis you’ve created sheltering your inner self from the outside world. There’s no need to be afraid anymore...

~RD

I edited this from July to make it more meaningful:

We make our own roads... some are two-legged highways leading off to faraway places while others are jammed freeways going in circles...

~RD

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