September 01-07 2013

 

Please note: I have been sick with the flu/cold/hay fever since last Thursday and didn’t really do much or felt like writing. Some events may be missing or out of sequence...

Welcome to the Month of September-

I am not feeling well today but managed to do stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran up and down the hill carrying 5lbs in each hand, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for five minutes.

Monday 02-

Feeling mighty sick and just stayed in bed watching reruns of “Elementary”; all of them. I did manage to do a little tiny bit of cleaning.

Tuesday 03- cloudy, hot, humid, yucky.

I am feeling worse today, staying in bed under the covers. Did a little reading but my head hurts.

Now that I finished all “Elementary”, I watched “Terminator 2 the Directors cut! Ha, there were some scenes in it I’ve never seen before.

Wednesday 04- lots of thunderstorms around, we even got a little rain here at my house.

I got tired of just lying in bed and did my stretches, lifted weights, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for two minutes.

Still sick but not any worse than yesterday. Seems like everyday I was progressively getting worse, so I must be getting better!

Thursday 05- temps into the high 90s with clouds and humidity.

I did my stretches.

I am feeling a little better but decided to just stay in bed all day.

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Friday 06- storm of the century, well this century anyways, came through here!

I’m feeling better today and did my stretches, lifted weights, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for two minutes.

I was working on updating the Copper Mountain Mesa Website when I noticed that the room grew dark with shadows from what was a nice sunny day. I stepped outside to see this big storm cell coming right down the middle of Winters Road headed my way.

I took to videoing the storm. All I’ll say here is that it was was very bad; lots of rain, hail, lightning and thunder. We were hit by two storm cells which came minutes after another; when I thought the worse was over the next one hit! I had what seemed a river flowing around and through my property. While videoing, I slipped, fell, got wet, and got plummeted with hail!

Kelly called after the first storm cell passed to tell me she had gone outside earlier to close the hood of her car (we keep them open so rats don’t make nests in our cars and eat the wires) when a big gust of wind knocked her to the muddy ground. She was being carried away by the wind and water that was flowing past like a river by her car. She grabbed hold of a creosote bush and held on until there was a break in the wind. Soaked and muddied she quickly got up and ran for the car and safety. There she sat feeling content to wait the storm out, until something like a tornado came along and lifted her and the car onto two wheels; she thought it was going to flip over. A lull in the storm finally came and she made her way back to her house, but not before glancing back over her shoulder to notice one of her tires was now flat. Once inside she locked herself in her bedroom with her dogs and cats.

I lost my inverter that runs my to all my AC electronics and refrigerator when a new stream decided to run through the battery room; I connected a spare inverter I have on hand for emergencies, but it’s only powerful enough to run my computers and not the refrigerator. I will try to fix the inverter tomorrow, but I’ll have to eat all the cold food in there before it goes bad. This was one bad storm! It will take some time for me to clean and shovel up all the mud and sand which has buried most of my shop and battery room.

Saturday 07- it has been cloudy all day with some rain here and there.

Not feeling very well again; thing it has to do with the storm yesterday and me running around videoing the storm and trying to keep everything together and above water.

I finally finished updating the Copper Mountain Mesa that I had begun yesterday before the storm hit and posted the videos I took there. I will try to post them in this journal.

The food in the refrigerator is still cold probably thanks to all the frozen water bottles I keep in there. Unfortunately I’ll have to get rid of the frozen catfish I got from Chris because it has already thawed out and I really don’t feel like eating fish right now; five pounds of fish anyways.

I took the inverter off the wall and set it out in what sunshine we had to dry out. I think I’ll have to get a new one because when I turned it sideways muddy water ran out.

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

In our youth we did learn and understood, we tried to bring change, but no one listened. As we grew older we've gotten more experience in living, but in the process have grown hard and rigid; we have forgotten what it was to be young... at least some haven’t forgotten <3 span="">

It is amazing to me how much people can do with so little and what little people do who have so much.

I look upon hospitals as a places to die or go bankrupt or both...

Maybe having one's world torn apart is what some people need. To remind them of what’s important, that there’s other things besides greed.

That they are more than just the material objects of which they own, that clutter their world, blinds their thoughts, presses them down, and keeps them from moving on.

Go beyond your comfort zone to find a different path, which leads to a fulfilling life, one of love and trust not greed.

To shed these worried burdens, braced on feeble backs, broken by modern society's crush to own you, sell you, consume you, and then dispose of you for all of what you lack.

I am not aware of any sharp pains to self discovery; enfold your being into its unlimited vastness and accept...  Enjoy the Moment, enjoy life and the awe and splendor that surrounds your consciousness.

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