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Sunday 25- Tucson to Twentynine Palms cloudy with rain at times.

I left Tucson when my brother Kevin came to watch Dad and was on the road around 6:30am. It started raining about 20 miles out of Tucson and I slowed the car down to 60 MPH to compensate for the wet roads and traffic ahead. I was cruising comfortably along when this white truck came roaring pass me doing at least 95 MPH or more. I didn’t see the occupants but the truck was towing a small trailer with one big and one little dirt bikes tied to its frame. I thought to myself that this was a father and son going out into the hills somewhere to ride. How nice!

About 40 miles or so out of Phoenix there is a rest area and I was going to make a pit stop there so I wouldn’t have to ride all the way through the city of Phoenix holding it and feeling uncomfortable; DANG, the rest area was closed for remodel! Now I would have to hold it all the way through the city unless I stopped at an off ramp or something. I continued driving for another 20 minutes when all the traffic came to a standstill. There was an accident just up ahead about a quarter of a mile because I could see the flashing lights of emergency vehicles. We sat there for over 35 minutes or so waiting. I had turned off my car because we were going nowhere for a spell. I decided to open the door, sit with my feet on the ground, pull down my zipper to relieve myself; I left quite a puddle. The traffic started moving very slowly now as one lane was opened. As I drove by the wreaks of four or more vehicles, one stood out; it was the same white truck that speeded pass me towing the big and little dirt bikes. It now laid in an awkward position on its side; I looked away as the emergency responders nonchalantly pulled a stretcher along side it.

I got home around 2pm after stopping at Stater Brothers to get some supplies. Sherry was watching the place for me and everything looked okay as I drove up to my humble home; I gave it a big hug and started bringing things from the car. After being away for five days, I came home and noticed the big mess inside! It was like someone else had moved in, but it wasn’t anyone but myself who made this mess. Just being away I forgot how messy I live; like a bushy tailed pack rat!

I gave my plants a good watering. Some of the ones I had planted died of thirst and some I had in containers filled with water drowned; oh well...

Monday 26- it rained all day long with temps in the 80s.

I did my stretches.

I started on cleaning my messy house. I think my problem is that I don’t throw any of it away and it just ends up in a pile somewheres else.

Tuesday 27- temps in the low 90s with scattered clouds.

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

I went about the house gathering old items that I need to give away so I can create more room and less clutter.

Wednesday 28- hey a nice day for once!

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.

More cleaning!

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack.

Did some catching up on my astronomy reading.

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run.

Practiced my guitar.

Thursday 29- temps in the high 90s with heavy cloud cover and lots of humidity.

I woke up feeling kinda ill, like a summer cold or hay fever was coming on.

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

I continued cleaning the house, but didn’t get much of anything done. I can’t wait for cooler days.

Friday 30- temps into the low100s with a few clouds and lots of humidity.

I did my stretches.

Yup, I got hay fever and really don’t feel like doing anything today. I mostly messed around online and on FaceBook.

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

Saturday 31- temps again in the low 100s with a change of rain. Humidity is sucking the life force out of everyone and in the night there wasn’t no relief either.

I still have the aches and pains of hay fever when I woke up. I’ve been taking an antihistamine which seems to help a bit.

Sherry came by and we stood by her truck and yapped up a storm for a spell.

I cooked up my rice and bean with my own secret ingredients and headed down to our monthly potluck. It seems that folks were somewheres else because of the holiday weekend. There were only about ten of us showing up and we all brought more food than we needed and ended up taking home some mighty yummy dishes. I over ate and suffered later on by lying in my bed with that bloated feeling ya git when that happens.

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

It might sound naive of me, but I would like to think differently, I'd like to think that we all could do something differently now for the future. I’d like to think we can bring change and start thinking we can instead of the old thinking that we can't so why try... I say no more war!

Do great things with what you have, love, inspire, create. Yes teach, but yet absorb your students minds, their hearts, their wants, their lives; teaching is a way to plant the seeds of imagination in the minds of our future!

A maiden sleeps yonder I adore on pillows satin she dreams. I have spoken to but dare not touch this fair skin vixen with my embrace. An old wanderer’s envy, a soul lost to love, a lonely man’s desire falls silently undone. To reach beyond this veil of sin, be cast into the garden again, to laugh and sing as others do, to live a life and feel beloved, to shed this bitter shell I wear.

Visions dance lightly upon my mind, with scent of beauty she leaves behind. Through distant realms shall I ride my steed, to race the night, to pass the sun, to come to thee.

A decade may be a long time ago, but it isn't that long ago in the heart.

I don't believe anything I see on the Internet until I have confirmation from three different sources and actually see the body!

Yes Change... let go those bad memories and pesky minions of false realities troubling your free spirit, let them drift away like dandelion seeds scattering into the winds.

Aloft with sweet bliss to kiss the angels and make them smile as she did here on Earth, for her friends and family still remember.

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