August 18-24 2013

 

Sunday 18- temps of 107 with a chance of thunderstorms tonight.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran up and down the hill carrying 5lbs in each hand, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for five minutes.

I updated two Dell Mini 9 Netbooks I have. One netbook runs Lubuntu that is swift and fast, while the other runs Windows 7 which is a big fat pig that wallows in the mud and snorts at me.

I watched “Seven Years in Tibet” (1997) starring Brad Pitt; mighty fine movie!

Monday 19- temps around 102 degrees, no clouds and high humidity.

I did my stretches, yoga, deep knee bends and ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs around each wrists.

I was on and off the telephone with my biological Family in Tucson, they’re saying Dad was getting out of the continuing care facility for sure on Thursday and coming home after a three month stay. So I must start getting everything together for the trip out there to Tucson.  

 

Tuesday 20- temps of 107 with a few clouds on the horizon.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran up and down the hill carrying 5lbs in each hand, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for five minutes.

Twentynine Palms UPS arrived with one of two packages I was waiting for and the other was delivered by the UPS driver out of Yucca Valley; why they delivered the two shipments this way I do not no.

I spent most of the day getting ready for my trip to Tucson.

At 6pm our Neighborhood Watch held a special meeting to plan the community cleanup we will be doing on September 21 8am to 3pm... five of us showed up and the meeting went well.

I got home and continued to get ready for my journey; water the plants really good and stuff like that. I wanted to have everything done so when I woke up in the morning I could just hop in my car and be on my way.

I wrote on FaceBook that I would be away for a spell; they are my very good friends, all of them!

The last thing I did before I went to sleep was wash the windows of the Cougar. Now I must tell you that there must be an eighth of an inch of dust over the whole car and when I cleaned all the windows I just couldn’t stop and ended wiping down the whole car; I was pretty tired when I went to bed, but my car looked pretty!

Wednesday 21- on the road to Tucson.

I woke early and was on the road at 7:15am for the 426 mile journey to Tucson. The trip was mostly uneventful until I stopped to get coffee at a rest stop just out of Phoenix; tired I pull off the 10 freeway for a short rest. I decided to get a cup of coffee out of the vending machine there. When I pulled the cup out it had tiny little brown things floating around at the top I thought was coffee residue, but on closer look was those tiny little piss ants bobbing about. Well I desperately needed that caffeine high pumping through my veins and fished them out with a nickel, which was the only instrument I could immediately find in my pockets to do the job. I think I got them all out, but at the time it really didn’t matter much and I took a sip, yuck! I remembered I had some Taster’s Choice packed away in the car and added some to the weak piss ant flavored brew. Now it tasted drinkable.

I got to the Family home at 2:15pm and let myself in, took a shower and called my brother Kevin to go see Dad at the care center, then afterwards go to Carl’s Jr. to eat burgers. We should have eaten first because as soon as we walked into the care place we were hijacked by administrations and spent the next hour with my brother and sister Shiela there in a small office listening to and reading papers on the homecare our Father would be receiving and what would be covered and what would not. I sat half awake almost nodding asleep and hoping we would come out of this thing alive and in one piece.

I finally got to see my Dad and he looked ready to come home tomorrow. Me and Kevin left and went to Carl’s Jr. for burgers. We stopped off at Home Depot for a high toilet seat and a doorknob for a door that is missing one. We went to the Family home and installed the seat and the doorknob. Kevin left after we jawed for a spell and I went to bed for a well deserved sleep.

Thursday 22- it rained in Tucson.

Kevin came by to go out to breakfast. Our Dad would be released at 2pm and an in-home caregiver called John would be meeting one of us at the house at 2:30pm. We were both going to pick Dad up, but we also knew someone would have to be there at the house for the caregiver and also aware getting out of any care facility would take more time than a half an hour. So I stayed and waited for the caregiver and Kevin went to pick up Dad. The caregiver arrived on time and is a really gentle man and also a very large and strong; one who enjoys participating in “no holds barred kickboxing”! He might be able to handle my Dad.

Kevin and Dad arrived around 3:15 and I introduced them to John the caregiver.

Seeing that there wasn’t any food in the house, me and Kevin went out in a rainstorm to fetch some food down at the local market and got mighty wet in the process. When we finally got back home the wash in the back was full of water running like a river carrying all manner of flotsam and jetsam away.

Friday 23-  Tucson temps around 100 degrees with clouds and rain here and there.

John the caregiver arrived to take care of Dad, me and Kevin went out to IHop for breakfast. Everything seems to becoming together with the in-home care, but we still need to evaluate just how much care Dad will need. I hope this evaluation will be done and everything setup before I leave for my home in the desert; I’m homesick already.

This evening I went for a very long walk to do some hard thinking, away from distractions.

Saturday 24- Tucson temps in the high 80s with clouds and sprinkles.

In-home care worker Genie came to take care of Dad today and would go shopping later in the day.

My sister Paula and her husband Mark came by to see Dad and to visit with me. It was a nice visit and chat we had. Mark, Kevin and I jumped in Kevin’s car and drove to the bank to withdraw some cash for Dad’s expenses when Genie goes shopping.

It was decided that Kevin would move into the house with Dad and that I would be free to leave tomorrow. With everything setup for Dad’s care I felt I could leave and not be in the way. I packed up my car for the trip back to my wonderful home in the high desert.

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

Candle flicker upon golden mirror, reflections of a face so dear, a female’s face grown so familiar, who loves a modest poet she should reconsider. A wanderer, a vagabond, seeker of truths, a righter of wrongs that I be, no future in such for the likes of me.

But in amber light as shadows fall, on silken hair she brushes through, spread upon moisten breasts of honeydew, which I caress, with a gentle touch, a tender kiss, a hint of lust she can’t resist.

She smiles as she turns and with a simple push of her finger upon my chest, that I stumble then fall onto a bed of satin and lace, upsetting her fat lazy cat’s rest, who skedaddles out of this place. She laughs, then she sighs and cuddles right up next to me, we lay together two creatures of love in harmony, two who embrace to make a song, to the rhythms of nature and the oceans beyond.

Yes my friend, good night and sleep well... sleep into the long night in waves of deep azure crescents, upon moonbeams flows and sailboats sail, let your dreams live among these waters, which carry your heart to greater depths, where planets spin and stars shine bright, cast your dreams upon the night.  

We laugh, we cry, we speak those words of love which brings sweet fulfillness into our lives, our souls, our very existence.

What a wonderful life we have, full of happiness, no one sad, except the lofty maiden with hair so fine, who seems so happy all the time, but hides her sadness behind light brow, as she sings and dances all the while, pretending to be, but never quite, the princess of love on a starry night.

Upon this steepening path we must follow, a journey of a hundred sorrows, be it may to rest our souls, or search the Earth for tales untold.

Rest ye say old humbled heathen, upon this Sabbath be forgiven, nay I say I ain’t no god, I must work to carry on, for I have but so much time, to seek the truth for humankind, least I falter in my quest to find these answers I shall not rest, be it known of what has spread, beyond the valleys of the dead.

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