October 08 to 14 2012

Monday 08- Nice again outside.

I did my stretches, yoga, core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag, and ran a mile and a half.

I did a lesson in “1100 words you need to know workbook,” and I drew something: a woman and a dog.

I went for an evening walk with my backpack.

I worked on my books.

I went for a night run.

Tuesday 09- much cooler today.

I did my stretches, ran one and a half miles, and lifted dumbbells.

I went to pick up my mail down at Border Ave on the little scooter; it’s running well! I wish I had brought my camera. I saw some really cool lenticular clouds on the way there and they had a red lining to them from the sunset. On the way back there was this massive cumulonimbus cloud that was way off in the distance colored with the sunset’s last rays.

I went for a night run.

I had battery problems at 1am.  I heard a low voltage warning buzz from my inverter and went out to investigate with flashlight and voltage meter in hand. Two of my batteries were showing voltage of 4.5VDC and two others were 6.2VDC ; not good. I disconnected the two 4.5VDC and hooked the 6.2VDC together to get 12VDC. The warning buzz went away and I’ll have to wait till morning to see if I can run all my AC off of two batteries instead of four.

Wednesday 10- cloudy and it rained a bit…

I did my stretches, ran a mile and a half, core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag, and ran up the hill and back carrying 5lbs in each hand.

At 2pm it rained for about ten minutes making the ground too wet for any running.

The rain came down here a whole bunch late last night! Right around 2am I was woken by great flashes of light and the loud roar of lightning strikes very near my little home; I pulled the covers over my head and that's where I hid, cowering away until it passed ;)

Thursday 11- cloudy all day

I did my stretches, yoga, ran one and a half miles, and lifted dumbbells.

I worked on the batteries…

I drove the Harley down to my mailbox on Lear and then went to visit Mac to jaw with him for a spell.

I went for an evening walk.

I watched episodes of “Warehouse 13” and “Castle”.

I went for a night run.

Friday 12- another cloudy day with a few sprinkles.

I did my stretches, core trainer, lifted weights, punched the heavy bag, and ran up the hill and back carrying 5lbs in each hand.

I picked up Kelly at 2pm to take her to Rite Aid to drop her prescription to get it filled. They said it’d be a few hours and we said that would be fine. We then went to Staters to pick up a roasted chicken and took it to Burger King where we bought drinks, onion rings, and used their fabulous Kung Pow sauce to dip our chicken in. We went back to Staters to do our shopping when Rite Aid called Kelly’s cell to say the pills were ready. We took our time finishing our shopping and then waltzed into Rite Aid and got her pills. I arrived home and walked in my door at 6:30pm, not bad for shopping with Kelly.

I worked on my book…

Saturday 13- real sunny outside with little clouds around 76 degrees.

I did my stretches, yoga, ran one and a half miles, and lifted dumbbells.

I updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the Newsletter.

Sherry came by to yak for a spell of our old friends up here who have passed on. I gave her one of my books to read and edit if she wants to.

I drove the little scooter to the mailbox on Border to pick up whatever is in there.

I went for an evening walk with my backpack.

I watched episode 3 of “Without Remorse”.

I went for a night run.

Sunday 14- the weather is heating up a bit.

I did my stretches.

Roger S. came by with the keys I lent him and he edited my book. He thought it was better than he thought it would be… That’s praise from Roger.

I had to help a good friend Kula do a fresh install of Windows 7 over the phone. I talked her through it which was really tough for her because she never had to go into BIOS and change the boot sequence so it would boot to CD drive instead of to the hard drive. All went well and she was up and running in a few hours; Staples wanted her to pay $200 to do it!

Then I finally got in touch with Kelly to help her clean her house. She has a homecare provider coming this Monday to help her while she’s recovering from surgery that is scheduled sometime in the next few weeks.

I worked on my books.