Sunday 07

Sunday 07- Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 40 and 55 degrees, NW winds at 6 to 17 MPH, humidity around 59 percent, overcast skies most of the day.
According to the National Weather Service: “Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55. Light north northwest wind. Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm.”
Last year I watched the Super Bowl with Lee Hines and Marcie over at their home. Lee passed away in early December and I didn’t feel much like watching it this year. Besides I’m still in a funk but I decided that this coming Tuesday I’m going to start back into my routine and move on; I tried a few times already. There is a time to mourn a dear friend and there’s a time to get on with your life. Sorry about the sad posts lately!
Ron Dehart gave me a very old book (1902) of the “American Naturalist” and I thumbed through it and found an article on Kangaroo Rats that was most interesting; it even had pictures of them taken with a plate camera!
I watched “Nature: the Beauty of Ugly” on PBS about some of the most ugly critters on earth but explained why they benefited by being ugly. Then I watched a DVD movie “Battlestar Galactica” (1978) which brought back some old memories from that era.
Joel called at 10:30pm to tell me that some dirt bike rider had just gone through a barbed wire fence by his house and might have broken his back. The medics were waiting for a helicopter to transport him to the hospital. I went outside and saw all these flashing lights from two police cars, an ambulance, and one fire truck.
I wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Monday 08

Monday 08- I decided today was the day to stop mourning instead of tomorrow, so I did my stretches, ran two miles, lifted weights, and rode my bike; I feel much better!
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 40 and 57 degrees, NE winds at 6 to 9 MPH, humidity around 45 percent, mostly clear skies. Looks like snow sometime tomorrow night.
According to the National Weather Service: “Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of rain after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. Light wind becoming south southeast between 11 and 14 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Tuesday Night: Rain likely before 10pm, then rain and snow likely. Snow level 4300 feet lowering to 2400 feet. Cloudy, with a low around 40. South southeast wind 7 to 14 mph becoming west. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.”
Fed the birds; they’re now used to me and hang around while I fill the feeder chirping at me to hurry. I even cleaned up the house some.
I went over to Stoney’s; I’m still going to call his house that even though he passed on, to borrow his truck so I can go to the board meeting tonight. I haven’t heard from the insurance company about fixing my truck and don’t want to do any work on it yet, so I still can’t drive it at night. Roger was there and we sat for a spell reminiscing about our dear departed friend.
I went for my evening walk re-listening to Astronomy Cast lecture: Ep. 152: Binary Stars. They now have a few new Podcasts that I need to download.
I practiced my guitar and then I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" review of chapter 6; “The Cell: a Molecular Approach” a short intro to the Genetic Code; and Digital Electronics Course Introduction to Combinational Logic Circuits which is really going to mess with my mind.
I got dressed up and drove down to the community center for the board meeting. The board decided that Marcie Hines is going to fill out her late husband’s term, and Bill Treas is going to fill out the late Bob Seeley’s term. I told everyone that we’re going to have a memorial for Bob Seeley at potluck on the 27th of this month. I also mentioned that a memorial for Stoney will be held sometime in April on a Saturday around his birthday of the 13th depending on when his family could come down. We discussed ways to recruit more members and volunteers to help out our little community; Rob Reese and Bill Treas will look into getting a list of property owners and maybe do some kind of mass mailing. The meeting went well.
I got home and did my stretches and practiced my guitar, and then watched “American Experience: The Bombing of Germany” which dealt with American bombing of military targets vs. British bombing of cities in WWII.
I finished the evening reading from “The Letters of Richard Feynman”. Then I wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.