December 22-31 2013

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 Sunday 22- sunny day!

I am feeling like crap but got a call to come help Andrew fix Kelly’s hot water heater. We got everything hooked up right so there is no hot water going to the toilet. I went back home to bed.

Monday 23- another sunnyday!

I am still feeling weak from being sick.

I finally felt capable enough to updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and send out the Newsletter; a little late but it is done.

Tuesday 24- sunny with a few clouds.

Me and Kelly went shopping to get last minute Christmas items from Rite Aid and a few from Staters. We even bought lists and stuff to hang from the tree. Kelly already had the candied yams prepared and a few other things so we wouldn’t have to get everything done on Christmas and not have to wait until 11pm to eat.

Wednesday 25- sunny!

I called Family and Friends to wish them a Merry Christmas.

At 2pm I went to get the turkey over at Stoney’s. I had taken it out of the freezer and put it in the fridge on Saturday. I was expecting to see blood dripping in the fridge I’d have to clean up, but sadly and to my surprise the dang turkey was still frozen solid! It took us six hours to cold water defrost the dang bird and then almost four hours to cook it. We finally ate around 1am the day after Christmas. I came prepared with Bonnie Tilley-Khan cookies she sent to me and we munched on them throughout the day :)

Kelly cooked everything from scratch and worked very hard getting the Christmas dinner together. She is a very fine cook and I thought it was one of the best Christmas meals I’ve ever eaten.  

Thursday 26-  clouds and a little breeze.

Too dang tired from Christmas to do anything and mostly slept throughout the day.

Friday 27- overcast and cool.

Can’t say I did much except I did my stretches.

Saturday 28- sunny and nice; I wish the weather would make up its mind.

I did my stretches,

I cooked up my special rice and bean Mexican thingy and got it ready for potluck today. Dyan Carroll  made fresh tacos cooked right there on the spot and she also made a cherry tart pie that disappeared very quickly. Mary and Chris Koval worked very hard baking there Holiday Cupcake supreme, orange jello and enchilada casserole which was mighty tasty. Not to be outdone Dorothy Jacobsen made a Sauerkraut Christmas Salad from an old family recipe kept in an old vault in the basement of her home for many generations predating the neolithic era. Chris Jonas made his world famous award winning macaroni salad. There must have been around twenty some folks showing up including Gordon and Linda Ficke who live down by Border Avenue.

I went over to Kelly’s to bring her leftovers from potluck. She had started putting lights on the Christmas tree.

Sunday 29- sunny but windy day.

I called Family and Friends. There are some personal family health problems I feel are private and don’t mention in my journal posts. This one has me worried but I am sure things will work out okay.

Monday 30- another nice day out here in the desert!

I did my stretches.

I loaded up a spare Win7 disk I had onto my old Toshiba laptop that was running XP very badly. Win XP will come to the end of support in April I believe and it wasn’t worth loading XP again if it would run Win7; which it did.

Tuesday 31- very nice day.

Well here we are at the end of the year again.

My goal this New Year is inviting my friends to make the world a better place by rejecting anyone of any religion, corporation, political candidate, or leader of any party, group, government entity or organization who harbors hatred in their hearts for others different than they; be it race, sex, financial status or ideology. Reject hate and make the world a better place. Just walk away from them, tune them out of your lives and they will lose their power; hate needs followers so please don't become one!

Also finish the rest of my books I have to edit and publish so I can move on to some other endeavors or continue to write; maybe both. There is a Spanish course I need to start. I need to keep up my exercises. There are several other things I want to study and complete; a course on geology, drawing art, and finish some songs I’ve been working on. I still need to get out of my shell here in the desert and do some traveling.

I will go for my run tonight; to run out the 2013 and run into 2014. I may record it and put the video on Youtube and Facebook.

***** Stuff I Wrote this Week******

Well you took your time to find me! I've been waiting patiently for you up here, ready to hand you a hot mug of coffee to warm your inner soul. Now go shake off that cold and wet and hang your coat on the hook by the door. Stand and warm your hands over the cast iron oven where the smell of hot fresh bread is now baking and there's plenty of butter to spread. I am the lighthouse keeper, I brave the waves of storms. I keep the passage safe, I keep all those who dare to sail these perilous seas from harm. It is a lonely job, but the duty must be done or else sailing ships shall run aground on those rocky shores below. Their hulls shall break and drift apart to sink and be no more. I am glad you took the time to journey into a dream of realms; for imagination once forgotten be a life spent collecting material possessions, which you may find has taken over your helm. ~Robert DeLoyd

Be original... limit your quotes from others and speak for yourself of what you feel and mean...  Step out onto that brittle branch of creativity and be ready to break away and soar high and free, as others shall surely cut down this tree of knowledge which has fed them and seek the truth no more.

~Robert DeLoyd

May the Sun and Stars be our guides on a journey lasting forever in the imagination of our minds. We shall climb the highest mountains, we will sail the grandest seas, we shall become like fish and dive to depths where treasures there must be. We will blast off from Canaveral, our journey has yet begun, to reach the farthest spaces and head out past our Sun. We shall travel quick, we shall travel far, we shall break the speed of thought. Zipping past Tau Ceti Prime, our target we shall find, and be amazed for what we sought has been with us all the time.   :)

~Robert DeLoyd

We got to string the tree

with ornaments so bright

that they'll hang from the branches

and glow through the night

to guide a man in a sled

while we sleep soundly in bed

to our humble home

where he’ll be fed

cookies and cream

and be on his way

to other homes

where good children eagerly dream

of packages to be ripped opened

and toys to be played

on that special morning

called Christmas Day.

We gots cranberry sauce ah cooking

we'll bake cookies candies and pies

with stuffing galore

a feast befitting a lofty king’s eyes

We'll have the plump bird ready

to cook in the morn

be ready to eat

on the table adorned

with candles alit

bowels of sweet yams and string beans do await

along with slices of turkey to jump onto our plates

as we reach for baked buns running with butter and honey

we can also be greedy with whipped potatoes covered in gravy

there'll be plenty to eat

there'll be plenty to share

may we sleep through Christmas night

without any care

and dream well wishes for all

to have a wondrous New Year

~Robert DeLoyd

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